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 IMPALA AWARDS ***Stop press! The winners for October 2009 have now been announced!*** Congratulations to the British-signed acts who have won awards in this announcement, especially Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit) on winning Double Platinum (and Platinum!) and The Prodigy (Cooking Vinyl) on winning Platinum. Brits Win Big in Impala Awards October 2009 Announcement (Press release - PDF 160KB) Impala's Awards Announcement and Full Winners List Oct 09 (PDF 120KB) ABOUT THE AWARDS The Impala Sales Awards are the first sales awards which recognise that success on a pan-European basis needs to be acknowledged on different levels. Any record label that has shipped 30,000 or more units of a single, album or download across Europe (across one or more countries) can register that release for an Impala Award. The awards celebrate the fact that success begins well before sales reach 1 million (the only pan-European sales level officially recognised before IMPALA launched its own scheme). The IMPALA Awards are intended to provide a new tool for independent music companies and artists to promote themselves, both domestically and internationally. They also recognize new talent and cultural diversity, and the fact that in order to promote cultural diversity in a meaningful and practical way, success needs to be celebrated at a much earlier point in an artist’s career than when they reach 1 million sales. To quote Michel Lambot, the former President of IMPALA: “Success, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For many independent record companies, selling 30,000 is a success. 250,000 is outstanding. 500,000 is a runaway. We now have a real mechanism to recognise this, to the benefit of European music companies, artists and consumers.” The Impala European Sales Awards promote independents and their artists on the basis of pan-European sales at different points in the success spectrum. Results will be published widely. The awards are: Impala Silver - 30 000 Impala Gold - 100 000 Impala Diamond - 250 000 Impala Platinum - 500 000 Impala Double Platinum - 1 000 000 To register an award winner (an act whom has sold enough to receive an award), please go to Impalasite.org. |
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