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Echo Music Prize

{{Short description|German music award}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Echo Music Prize

| image = Echo Award.jpg

| imagesize = 220px

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| awarded_for = Outstanding achievements in the music industry

| presenter = Deutsche Phono-Akademie

| country = Germany

| network = {{nowrap|Das Erste (2009–2016)}}
VOX (2017–2018)

| year = {{start date and age|1992|5|18|df=yes}}

| year2 = {{end date|2018|4|12|df=yes}}

| website =

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Echo Music Prize (stylised as ECHO, {{IPA|de|ˈɛço}}) was an accolade by the {{Interlanguage link|Deutsche Phono-Akademie|de}}, an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first ECHO Awards ceremony was held in 1992, and was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1991, succeeding the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, which was awarded from 1963 to 2018. Each year's winner was determined by the previous year's sales. In April 2018, following controversy regarding that year's ceremony, the Bundesverband Musikindustrie announced the end of the award.{{cite web|title=Der Echo wird abgeschafft|work=faz.net|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/der-echo-wird-abgeschafft-15559595.html|access-date=25 April 2015|date=25 April 2018|language=de}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8379865/germany-cancels-echo-awards-top-music-prize-anti-semitic-lyrics|title=Germany to Discontinue ECHO Awards, the Country's Top Music Prize, After Anti-Semitic Lyric Backlash|work=Billboard|access-date=2018-04-25}}

History

First held with 370 people in the Flora, Cologne{{cite web | title =Alles über den Echo | work=BZ | publisher =Axel Springer | date =7 March 2004 | url =http://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv/alles-ueber-den-echo-article99509.html | access-date=22 June 2010}} in 1992,{{Cite news | last =Spahr | first =Wolfgang | title =German Stars Honored As Echoes Debut | newspaper =Billboard| page =10 | date =30 May 1992 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=jg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10 | access-date=22 June 2010}} the award ceremony in Frankfurt was televised and the classical awards were moved to a separate event, Echo Klassik, in Cologne in 1994.{{Cite news | last =Pride | first =Dominic | title =Dance Music (And A Punk Jester) Captivate Echo Awards Ceremony | newspaper=Billboard| page =58 | date =26 March 1994 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=NQgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58 | access-date =22 June 2010}} Until 1995, only invited guests could attend the ceremony.{{cite web | title =Ein bisschen Echo, oder was? |work=Der Spiegel| publisher =Spiegel Gruppe | date =9 March 2000 | url =http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,68398,00.html |access-date=22 June 2010}} It was held in Munich, and in 2001, the venue was moved from Hamburg to Berlin{{Cite news | last =Masson | first =Gordon | title =This Year's Model: New Town, New Venue, New Media Partners|newspaper=Billboard|page=48| date =21 April 2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=nRQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |access-date=22 June 2010}} because of subsidies of up to 20 million euros, although a return in 2004 was considered.{{cite web | last =Schirg | first =Oliver |author2=Hornung, Klaus | title =Subventions-Geschenke: Echo bleibt doch in Berlin |work=Die Welt| publisher =Axel Springer | date =23 May 2003 | url =https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article236504/Subventions_Geschenke_Echo_bleibt_doch_in_Berlin.html|access-date=22 June 2010}} In 2009, the venue in Berlin was moved to Mercedes-Benz Arena.{{cite web | title =EMI artists provide the evening's highlight performances as Germany's ECHO awards shine with a new venue and a first ever live primetime broadcast | work =Music | publisher =EMI Group | date =23 February 2009 | url =http://www.emimusic.com/news/2009/emi-artists-provide-the-evenings-highlight-performances-as-germanys-echo-awards-shine-with-a-new-venue-and-a-first-ever-live-primetime-broadcast/ | access-date =22 June 2010 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110606013709/http://www.emimusic.com/news/2009/emi-artists-provide-the-evenings-highlight-performances-as-germanys-echo-awards-shine-with-a-new-venue-and-a-first-ever-live-primetime-broadcast/ | archive-date =6 June 2011 | df =dmy-all }}

Trophy

File:LSEcho.jpg receiving an Echo Award in 2014]]

The trophy was designed by Oliver Renelt when he was a student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. It is stainless steel, and is {{convert|40|cm|in}} tall and weighs {{convert|2|kg|lb}}. It depicts half a disc with notes flowing into it from a globe, and the design was the winner of a competition held for that purpose.

Controversy

The Echo Award was heavily criticized worldwide when Farid Bang and Kollegah received the award for best hip hop/urban album in April 2018. The nominated album, Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3 (English: "Young, brutal, handsome 3"), contains the track "0815", in which the artists refer to their muscles as being more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates. The duo was even allowed to perform this track during the ceremony, despite heavy protests weeks before the award show.

Campino, singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen, was the first one to criticize the committee's decision during the ceremony.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/german-music-business-slammed-anti-semitic-lyric-echo-awards-kollegah-farid-bang-1202758207/|title=German Music Business Slammed Over Anti-Semitic Lyric Controversy at Echo Awards|last=Aswad|first=Jem|date=2018-04-19|work=Variety|access-date=2018-04-21|language=en-US}} His remarks received a standing ovation from the audience.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/en/rappers-kollegah-farid-bang-stir-controversy-at-germanys-biggest-music-awards/a-43367267|title=Rappers Kollegah, Farid Bang stir controversy at Germany's biggest music awards {{!}} DW {{!}} 12.04.2018|website=dw.com|language=en|access-date=2018-04-21}} Several artists later returned their Echo awards in protest, such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen, who returned all of his seven Echo awards received over the years. Other artists returning their awards were German conductors Christian Thielemann and Enoch zu Guttenberg, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit, record producer Klaus Voormann, and the Notos Quartett.{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8350353/germany-echo-awards-kollegah-farid-bang-lyrics-controversy|title=Germany's ECHO Awards Under Intense Scrutiny After Allowing Rap Duo With Anti-Semitic Lyrics to Win, Perform|work=Billboard|access-date=2018-04-21}}

However, criticism did not only come from artists and the German press. Several businesses joined in, with Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, being one of the most recent high-profile commentators, saying that this would hurt "Germany's international reputation". He also asked if "antisemitism [was] becoming acceptable in Germany" again.

As a consequence, the Echo Award was discontinued.

Ceremony locations

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!Year

!Venue

!City

!class="unsortable" | Presenter(s)

1992FloraCologneKristiane Backer
1993WintergartenBerlinSusann Pingel
1994Alte OperFrankfurtFritz Egner
1995Bavaria Film- und FernsehstudiosMunichReinhold Beckmann
1996Congress Center HamburgHamburgThomas Ohrner
1997Congress Center HamburgHamburgAxel Bulthaupt
1998Congress Center HamburgHamburgAxel Bulthaupt
1999Congress Center HamburgHamburgKim Fisher
2000Congress Center HamburgHamburgKim Fisher
2001ICC BerlinBerlinFrauke Ludowig
2002ICC BerlinBerlinFrauke Ludowig
2003ICC BerlinBerlinFrauke Ludowig, Oliver Geissen
2004ICC BerlinBerlinOliver Geissen
2005Estrel Convention CenterBerlinYvonne Catterfeld, Oliver Geissen
2006Estrel Convention CenterBerlinMichelle Hunziker, Oliver Geissen
2007Palais am Berliner FunkturmBerlinYvonne Catterfeld, Oliver Geissen
2008ICC BerlinBerlinNazan Eckes, Oliver Geissen
2009O2 WorldBerlinBarbara Schöneberger, Oliver Pocher
2010Palais am Berliner FunkturmBerlinSabine Heinrich, Matthias Opdenhövel
2011Palais am Berliner FunkturmBerlinIna Müller, Joko Winterscheidt
2012Palais am Berliner FunkturmBerlinIna Müller, Barbara Schöneberger
2013Palais am Berliner FunkturmBerlinHelene Fischer
2014Messe BerlinBerlinHelene Fischer
2015Messe BerlinBerlinBarbara Schöneberger
2016Messe BerlinBerlin
2017Messe BerlinBerlinXavier Naidoo, Sasha
2018Messe BerlinBerlin

Echo Awards

The Kastelruther Spatzen have won 13 Echo Awards in the category Volksmusik which is more than any other artist; the awards were in 1993, 1996–2003, 2006–2010.

Selected pop categories

=Best National Rock/Pop Male Artist=

  • 1992: Herbert Grönemeyer
  • 1993: Marius Müller-Westernhagen
  • 1994: Herbert Grönemeyer
  • 1995: Marius Müller-Westernhagen
  • 1996: Mark'Oh
  • 1997: Peter Maffay
  • 1998: Nana
  • 1999: Marius Müller-Westernhagen
  • 2000: Xavier Naidoo
  • 2001: {{Interlanguage link|Ayman (singer){{!}}Ayman|de|3=Ayman}}
  • 2002: Peter Maffay
  • 2003: Herbert Grönemeyer
  • 2004: Dick Brave
  • 2005: Gentleman
  • 2006: Xavier Naidoo
  • 2007: Roger Cicero
  • 2008: Herbert Grönemeyer
  • 2009: Udo Lindenberg
  • 2010: Xavier Naidoo
  • 2011: David Garrett
  • 2012: Udo Lindenberg
  • 2013: David Garrett{{cite web |url=http://www.echopop.de/no_cache/pop-suche/ |title=Echo Pop Archiv |language=de |work=Echo Pop |publisher=Bundesverband Musikindustrie |access-date=27 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217071025/http://www.echopop.de/no_cache/pop-suche/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 |df=dmy }}
  • 2014: Tim Bendzko{{cite web |url=http://www.echopop.de/pop-gewinner/ |title=Die Gewinner 2014 |trans-title=The 2014 Winners |language=de |work=Echo Pop |publisher=Bundesverband Musikindustrie |access-date=27 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216195255/http://www.echopop.de/pop-gewinner/ |archive-date=16 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}
  • 2015: Herbert Grönemeyer{{cite web |title='Die Helene-Fischer-Festspiele haben begonnen' |trans-title='The Helene Fischer festival has begun' |language=de |publisher=Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg |work=RBB online |first=Ula |last=Brunner |date=27 March 2015 |access-date=27 March 2015 |url=http://www.rbb-online.de/kultur/beitrag/2015/03/musikpreis-echo-2015.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150330121504/http://www.rbb-online.de/kultur/beitrag/2015/03/musikpreis-echo-2015.html |archive-date=30 March 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
  • 2016: Andreas Bourani
  • 2017: Udo Lindenberg
  • 2018: Mark Forster

=Best National Rock/Pop Female Artist=

=Best International Rock/Pop Male Artist=

=Best International Rock/Pop Female Artist=

=Best Schlager Female Artist=

  • 1993: Nicole (German singer){{cite web | title=Nicole Wiki: Die Sängerin im Blickpunkt | website=SchlagerPlanet.com | date=August 19, 2013 | url=https://www.schlagerplanet.com/news/wissenswertes/wikis-biografien/nicole-wiki-die-saengerin-im-blickpunkt-4468.html | language=de | access-date=December 31, 2020}}{{cite web | title=Nicole | website=nicole-4-u.de | date=November 5, 2019 | url=https://www.nicole-4-u.de/biografie/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813134007/https://www.nicole-4-u.de/biografie/ | archive-date=August 13, 2020 | url-status=live | language=de | access-date=January 4, 2021}}

=Best National Rock/Pop Group=

=Best International Rock/Pop Group=

=Best International Rock/Alternative=

=Single of the Year=

==Single of the Year (National)==

==Single of the Year (International)==

=Album of the Year=

=Best National Newcomer=

=Best International Newcomer=

=Honorary Award=

Echo Klassik

{{main|Echo Klassik}}

Following its first edition as a separate event in Cologne in 1994, the Echo Klassik has been held in the Semperoper in Dresden in 1996 and 2009,{{cite web | title =ECHO Klassik im Überblick | publisher =Semperoper | url =http://www.semperoper.de/fileadmin/home/alle/PDFs/semper/semper_0910_1.pdf | format = PDF |access-date=22 June 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} in Dortmund in 2003,{{cite web | title =Preisträger des Echo Klassik stehen fest | work =KIZ | publisher =NMZ | date =26 August 2003 | url =http://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/preistraeger-des-echo-klassik-stehen-fest|access-date=22 June 2010}} in Gasteig in Munich from 2004 to 2008 and in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-hintergrund/|title=ECHO Klassik {{!}} Background|last=Musikindustrie|first=Bundesverband|website=echoklassik.de|language=en|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-date=3 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803212505/http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-hintergrund/|url-status=dead}} In 2010 it was held in Essen.{{cite web|title=Echo Klassik bringt Melodien für Millionen|work=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung|date=17 October 2010|url=https://www.derwesten.de/kultur/Echo-Klassik-bringt-Melodien-fuer-Millionen-id3842377.html|access-date=9 April 2011|author=Lars von der Gönna|language=de|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091445/http://www.derwesten.de/kultur/echo-klassik-bringt-melodien-fuer-millionen-id3842377.html|url-status=dead}} From 2011 until 2016 the award show was held in Berlin's Konzerthaus - only shortly intermitted in 2014. In 2017, the Echo Klassik took place in Hamburg's newly opened Elbphilharmonie.{{Cite news|url=http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-details/controller/News/action/detail/news/thomas-gottschalk-to-host-the-echo-klassik-2017-in-hamburgs-elbphilharmonie-concert-hall-submi/|title=Thomas Gottschalk to host the ECHO KLASSIK 2017 in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall // Submission period starts today|last=Musikindustrie|first=Bundesverband|date=20 February 2017|access-date=2017-11-24|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042302/http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-details/controller/News/action/detail/news/thomas-gottschalk-to-host-the-echo-klassik-2017-in-hamburgs-elbphilharmonie-concert-hall-submi/|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}}

Echo Jazz

{{main|Echo Jazz}}

After 2010, the Echo Jazz awards were given in thirty categories, including ensemble of the year, male and female singer of the year, record label, and lifetime achievement. In 2012 the criteria for entry included album release date and "two outstanding reviews from music journalists." Conductor Claus Ogermann was given the ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.{{cite web|last1=Spahr|first1=Wolfgang|title=Germany's ECHO Jazz Award Winners Announced|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/global/1097873/germanys-echo-jazz-award-winners-announced|website=Billboard|access-date=27 September 2016|date=18 April 2012}} Awards are decided by a twelve-member jury based on critical and commercial appeal.{{cite web|title=ECHO Jazz 2016: Hamburg|url=https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.echojazz.de/jazz-detailansicht/controller/News/action/detail/news/der-echo-jazz-verzaubert-hamburg/&usg=ALkJrhjIPGEUtlhFHhtwZHVofUav_dSuPQ|website=Echo Jazz |access-date=27 September 2016|date=26 May 2016}}{{cite web|title=Hamburg's hot jazz scene – ECHO Jazz 2016 award to be held soon|url=http://www.hamburg-news.hamburg/en/cluster/conventions-events/hamburgs-hot-jazz-scene-echo-jazz-2016-award-be-he/|website=Hamburg News|access-date=27 September 2016|date=23 May 2016}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

References

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External links

{{Commons category|ECHO (music award)|ECHO}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090117073802/http://www.echo-deutscher-musikpreis.de/ Echo Deutscher Musikpreis] {{in lang|de}}

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