Victoires de la Musique


Victoires de la Musique is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz versions are the Victoires de la musique classique and Victoires du Jazz.
The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. The awards are the French equivalent to the Grammy Awards and the Brit Awards for music, and it is one of the major awards in France, along with Nuits des Molières for stage performances, and the César Award for motion pictures.
The first Victoires de la Musique ceremony was held in 1985, and it was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1985.

Background

The title trophies and nominees for each are established annually by the Board of Directors of the Association "Les Victoires de la Musique", which also refers to people who make up the Academy voters. In 2010, the Victoires were awarded by a panel of 1 226 professionals in a vote in one round. Of the voters, 40% are artists, 40% are professional music producers and 20% are of other professional circles close to the world of music.
In recent years, some trophies are awarded by the public, through SMS voting, and since 2009, Internet: Victory "Group or Artist of the public revelation of the year" and that the "Song of the year".

Categories

Group of the Year

Popular Music Révélation of the Year

Album of the Year

Traditional Music Album of the Year
Discontinued 1988 to 1990

Musical Show

Sound engineer
Album producer
Studio musician
Producer / Arranger
Show producer
  • 1992 : Jean-Claude Camus
  • 1993 : Gilbert Coullier
  • 1994 : L'Olympia
  • 1995 : Corida
  • 1996 : Jules Frutos, Hélène Rol et Dominique Revert
Record covers