Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry
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The Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (, ZPAV) is the organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Poland
, and the Polish chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Founded in 1991, it is authorized by the Polish Ministry of Culture to act as a rights management organization in the field of phonogram and videogram producers' rights. ZPAV publishes the Polish Music Charts
and awards music recording sales certification
s. It also issues the Fryderyk
annual award for Polish music
.
1995 also marked the beginning of awarding music awards by ZPAV. The first gold and platinum awards
were granted by ZPAV in February 1995. The Fryderyk
annual award was presented for the first time in March.
In 1996 ZPAV started signing agreements about collecting commissions
for the broadcasting of sound recordings. Agreements with Telewizja Polska
and the main commercial radio stations were signed in 1997 and with Polskie Radio
in 1999. Agreements with other commercial premises where music is played were signed starting in 2002. Commissions were first distributed to the producers in 1998.
In 1998, together with the Foundation for the Protection of Audiovisual Works and the Business Software Alliance
(BSA), ZPAV found the Anti-Piracy Coalition.
In 2000, ZPAV published the first official Polish record chart, OLiS
. Airplay monitoring starts when an agreement with Nielsen Music Control is signed in 2006.
, a weekly chart based on retail sales data, and Top 100, a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies. It also publishes the Official Polish Airplay Chart, provided by Nielsen Music Control Airplay Services and charts of songs most listened to in stores and discos.
were granted by ZPAV in February 1995, gold to Marysia Biesiadna by Maryla Rodowicz
and platinum to Three Tenors Live by The Three Tenors
. The diamond award was first presented in July 2000 to Kayah i Bregović
by Serbian musician Goran Bregović
and Polish singer Kayah
.
The current certification thresholds are as follows. The main numbers are for releases since July 2005, and the thresholds for releases prior to that are in parenthesis.
ZPAV also awards multiple Platinum awards, up to the amount which rewards a Diamond award. For boxed sets, each piece in the set counts as one unit. The awards also take into account digital downloads, where ten downloads of any title in the album count as an album sold.
An archive of all the certifications awarded by ZPAV is available at the website.
Note that the thresholds above were set some time in the 2000s. For instance, at last until August 2003 there were no different thresholds for foreign and Polish material. Furthermore, the threshold for albums at least until September 2001 were different, namely 50,000 for gold, 100,000 for Platinum and 500,000 for Diamond.
. Its status in the Polish public can be compared to the American Grammy and the UK's BRIT Award
. The Fryderyk was established by ZPAV in 1994 and presented for the first time in 1995. Since 1999, nominees and winners have been selected by the Phonographic Academy which was founded by the General Assembly of ZPAV in 1998 and now consists of nearly 1000 artists, creators, journalists. Since 2007 it is organized by STX Records.
and the foreign "Womanizer
" by Britney Spears
. The 2011 winners (for sales in 2010) were the Polish "Nie pytaj mnie" by Ala Boratyn
and the foreign "Waka waka
" by Shakira
.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, and the Polish chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Founded in 1991, it is authorized by the Polish Ministry of Culture to act as a rights management organization in the field of phonogram and videogram producers' rights. ZPAV publishes the Polish Music Charts
Polish Music Charts
The Polish Music Charts are two official album charts and seven singles charts in Poland, provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . The first, the Top 100, is a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies...
and awards music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
s. It also issues the Fryderyk
Fryderyk
The Fryderyk is the annual award in Polish music. Its name refers to the original Polish spelling variant of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's first name...
annual award for Polish music
Music of Poland
Artists from Poland, including famous composers like Chopin or Lutosławski and traditional, regionalized folk musicians, create a lively and diverse music scene, which even recognizes its own music genres, such as poezja śpiewana.- Beginning :...
.
History
ZPAV was officially founded on July 11 1991, following the recognition of the IFPI given in June of that year. In February 1995 ZPAV was authorized by the Polish Ministry of Culture to act as a rights management organization in the field of phonogram and videogram producers' rights. This was followed in December with the right to collect a share of the 3% blank media tax, in the name of the producers.1995 also marked the beginning of awarding music awards by ZPAV. The first gold and platinum awards
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
were granted by ZPAV in February 1995. The Fryderyk
Fryderyk
The Fryderyk is the annual award in Polish music. Its name refers to the original Polish spelling variant of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's first name...
annual award was presented for the first time in March.
In 1996 ZPAV started signing agreements about collecting commissions
Commission (remuneration)
The payment of commission as remuneration for services rendered or products sold is a common way to reward sales people. Payments often will be calculated on the basis of a percentage of the goods sold...
for the broadcasting of sound recordings. Agreements with Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's public broadcasting corporation...
and the main commercial radio stations were signed in 1997 and with Polskie Radio
Polskie Radio
Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.- History :Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts from Warsaw on 18 April 1926....
in 1999. Agreements with other commercial premises where music is played were signed starting in 2002. Commissions were first distributed to the producers in 1998.
In 1998, together with the Foundation for the Protection of Audiovisual Works and the Business Software Alliance
Business Software Alliance
The Business Software Alliance is a trade group established in 1988 and representing a number of the world's largest software makers and is a member of the International Intellectual Property Alliance...
(BSA), ZPAV found the Anti-Piracy Coalition.
In 2000, ZPAV published the first official Polish record chart, OLiS
OLiS
OLiS is the official list of the highest selling music albums in Poland. The list exists since October 23, 2000 and is provided by ZPAV....
. Airplay monitoring starts when an agreement with Nielsen Music Control is signed in 2006.
Sales charts
ZPAV publishes two official album charts, OLiSOLiS
OLiS is the official list of the highest selling music albums in Poland. The list exists since October 23, 2000 and is provided by ZPAV....
, a weekly chart based on retail sales data, and Top 100, a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies. It also publishes the Official Polish Airplay Chart, provided by Nielsen Music Control Airplay Services and charts of songs most listened to in stores and discos.
Sales certifications
The first gold and platinum awardsMusic recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
were granted by ZPAV in February 1995, gold to Marysia Biesiadna by Maryla Rodowicz
Maryla Rodowicz
Maryla Rodowicz is a Polish singer.-Early life:She studied at Liceum Ziemi Kujawskiej in Włocławek and graduated from the Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego in Warsaw...
and platinum to Three Tenors Live by The Three Tenors
The Three Tenors
The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang in concert under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla, in...
. The diamond award was first presented in July 2000 to Kayah i Bregović
Kayah i Bregovic
Kayah i Bregović is a joint album by Bosnian musician Goran Bregović and Polish singer Kayah, released in 1999.The album became a bestseller in Poland, exceeding 700,000 copies sold...
by Serbian musician Goran Bregović
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
and Polish singer Kayah
Kayah (singer)
Katarzyna Rooijens , professionally known as Kayah, is a Polish singer-songwriter. She began her career with her 1995 album Kamień and established herself as one of the most successful Polish singers with her further releases, including Zebra and Kayah i Bregović...
.
The current certification thresholds are as follows. The main numbers are for releases since July 2005, and the thresholds for releases prior to that are in parenthesis.
| Variant | Gold | Platinum | Diamond | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single/Maxi-single | 10,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 | ||
| Album | Pop Pop music Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop... |
Foreign | 10,000 (20,000) | 20,000 (40,000) | 100,000 (200,000) |
| Local | 15,000 (35,000) | 30,000 (70,000) | 150,000 (350,000) | ||
| Classical Classical music Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times... /Jazz Jazz Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th... /Blues Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads... |
5,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | ||
| Soundtrack Soundtrack A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the... |
10,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 | ||
| Classical - popular | 5,000 (10,000) | 10,000 (20,000) | 50,000 (100,000) | ||
| Variant | Gold | Platinum | Diamond | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single | 5,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | |
| DVD/VHS etc. | Pop | 5,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 |
| Classical/Jazz | 2,500 | 5,000 | 25,000 | |
ZPAV also awards multiple Platinum awards, up to the amount which rewards a Diamond award. For boxed sets, each piece in the set counts as one unit. The awards also take into account digital downloads, where ten downloads of any title in the album count as an album sold.
An archive of all the certifications awarded by ZPAV is available at the website.
Note that the thresholds above were set some time in the 2000s. For instance, at last until August 2003 there were no different thresholds for foreign and Polish material. Furthermore, the threshold for albums at least until September 2001 were different, namely 50,000 for gold, 100,000 for Platinum and 500,000 for Diamond.
The Fryderyk
The Fryderyk is the annual award in Polish musicMusic of Poland
Artists from Poland, including famous composers like Chopin or Lutosławski and traditional, regionalized folk musicians, create a lively and diverse music scene, which even recognizes its own music genres, such as poezja śpiewana.- Beginning :...
. Its status in the Polish public can be compared to the American Grammy and the UK's BRIT Award
Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust...
. The Fryderyk was established by ZPAV in 1994 and presented for the first time in 1995. Since 1999, nominees and winners have been selected by the Phonographic Academy which was founded by the General Assembly of ZPAV in 1998 and now consists of nearly 1000 artists, creators, journalists. Since 2007 it is organized by STX Records.
Digital Song of the Year
Since 2010 ZPAV also awards a "Digital Song of the Year" award, which is awarded to the best selling digital song in two categories, Polish songs and foreign songs. The 2010 winners (for sales in 2009) were the Polish "Nie mogę Cię zapomnieć" by Agnieszka ChylińskaAgnieszka Chylinska
Agnieszka Chylińska is a Polish rock singer and columnist.From 1994 until 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska , which released the album...
and the foreign "Womanizer
Womanizer (song)
"Womanizer" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears from her sixth studio album, Circus. It was released on September 26, 2008 by Jive Records as the lead single of the album. Produced and co-written by Nikesha Briscoe and Rafael Akinyemi of The Outsyders, the song had to be...
" by Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
. The 2011 winners (for sales in 2010) were the Polish "Nie pytaj mnie" by Ala Boratyn
Ala Boratyn
Ala Boratyn , also known as Ala, born Alicja Julia Boratyn, 27 November 1992 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish singer famously-known as one of the two members of the Polish girl group Blog 27. On 18 October 2006, Alicja announced her departure from Blog 27 and went to develop a solo career...
and the foreign "Waka waka
Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
"Waka Waka " is a song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, featuring South African band Freshlyground. It was the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, along with its Spanish language version, entitled "Waka Waka "...
" by Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
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