Echo pop

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The Echo Pop , written ECHO POP, was a German music award for personalities and productions from the field of popular pop music . The Echo Pop was the oldest of three echo prizes and was awarded annually by the German Phono Academy between 1992 and 2018. In addition to the Echo Pop , there was also the Echo Klassik and Echo Jazz .

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The ranking of the winners in most categories was based on the added weekly results of the Media Control sales charts from February of one year to January of the following year. As a result, the absolute sales figures - distributed over the entire year - were not taken into account. This could easily bias the results. Good sales figures for artists who achieved good sales results over longer periods of time (without top positions in the charts for the week) were disadvantaged. In some categories (life's work and special prizes) the winners were selected by a jury. Prize winners for categories such as live act and music video were determined via online voting.

The organizers of the Echo officially stated that there is a jury for each Echo category, which consists of members of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie e. V. and music-loving partners from radio, press, TV and former award winners. At a press conference on March 21, 2012, co-founder and executive producer of the Echo Gerd Gebhardt stated that in those categories 50 percent of the jury and 50 percent of the sales figures decide on the award of the prize. However, the existence of juries in these categories is also questioned.

In order to avoid criticism such as at the Echo Awards 2013 because of the nomination of alleged music with a right-wing extremist background by Frei.Wild , an advisory board was set up for the Echo Awards 2014, which is supposed to examine the music of artists with suspicious backgrounds based on statements. The first album that was under observation was Frei.Wild's album Still , which it passed without any problems.

In 2017, the organizers reacted to criticism of the commercial orientation, but also of the escalating award ceremony. The 31 prize categories have been reduced to 22 and juries are selected more specifically and have more weight in the decision-making process.

On April 25, 2018, it was announced that the echo award ceremony will be discontinued and will not be continued.

Criticism and classification

→ Main article : Echo (music award) #controversies

The Echo describes itself as the “most important German music award”. Critics, on the other hand, see the price as an outdated self-presentation of the German music industry and the musicians it markets. Florian Schillat, for example, spoke of an “outdated music or sales price” before the 2017 Echo Awards in the specialist media magazine Meedia and asked whether the award should still be taken seriously after the widespread criticism of the award practice.

For the 2006 Echo Awards was originally an appearance by Oomph! and the title God is slated for a pop star . The band was unloaded at short notice. The cancellation was made by RTL with the following words: "In the context of the current, international religious discussions ( Mohammed caricatures ) and in the light of a general responsibility, we see a performance of the song God is a pop star very skeptical, even as irresponsible".

To the Echo 2013 the bands said MIA. , Die Ärzte und Kraftklub withdrew their participation in protest against the nomination of the South Tyrolean rock band Frei.Wild , who are criticized because of potential politically right-wing tendencies in their songs. The Berlin band Die Ärzte criticizes the fact that the awarding of the echoes is based exclusively on the sales figures and therefore also includes bands like Frei.Wild. Three years later, in 2016 Frei.Wild received an echo as “Best Rock / Alternative Group (national)”.

In 2016, the prize was criticized as the "Helene Fischer Festival" because the Schlager singer was awarded four prizes, but was only nominated three times. The organizer had not announced any nominations for the “Best Live Act” category and received the prize off the cuff.

In 2018 , the International Auschwitz Committee condemned the planned participation of the rap duo Kollegah and Farid Bang : It was " a slap in the face for all Holocaust survivors and a process that was shameful for Germany". For this purpose, the lines of text from the piece 0815 “My body is more defined than by Auschwitz inmates” and “Do another Holocaust, come on with the Molotov” were cited. In response to the excellent album and the live performance of the two rappers, numerous musicians returned their echoes, including Marius Müller-Westernhagen , who immediately returned all his echoes.

Events

event	place	Moderators	Television broadcast
May 18, 1992	Cologne , Flora	Kristiane Backer	no television broadcast
March 15, 1993	Berlin , winter garden	Susann Pingel
March 8, 1994	Frankfurt am Main , Alte Oper	Fritz Egner
February 14, 1995	Munich , Bavaria film and television studios	Reinhold Beckmann
February 23, 1996	Hamburg , Congress Center Hamburg	Thomas Ohrner
March 6, 1997	Hamburg, Congress Center Hamburg	Axel Bulthaupt
March 5, 1998	Hamburg, Congress Center Hamburg	Axel Bulthaupt	The first
March 5, 1999	Hamburg, Congress Center Hamburg	Kim Fisher
9th of March 2000	Hamburg, Congress Center Hamburg	Kim Fisher
March 15, 2001	Berlin, ICC Berlin	Frauke Ludowig	RTL
March 7, 2002	Berlin, ICC Berlin	Frauke Ludowig
March 15, 2003	Berlin, ICC Berlin	Frauke Ludowig and Oliver Geissen
March 6, 2004	Berlin, ICC Berlin	Oliver Geissen
April 2, 2005	Berlin, Estrel Convention Center	Yvonne Catterfeld and Oliver Geissen
March 12, 2006	Berlin, Estrel Convention Center	Michelle Hunziker and Oliver Geissen
March 25, 2007	Berlin, Palais am Funkturm	Yvonne Catterfeld and Oliver Geissen
February 15, 2008	Berlin, ICC Berlin	Nazan Eckes and Oliver Geissen
February 21, 2009	Berlin, O2 World	Barbara Schöneberger and Oliver Pocher	The first
March 4, 2010	Berlin, Palais am Funkturm	Sabine Heinrich and Matthias Opdenhövel
March 24, 2011	Berlin, Palais am Funkturm	Ina Müller and Joko Winterscheidt
March 22, 2012	Berlin, Palais am Funkturm	Ina Müller and Barbara Schöneberger
21st March 2013	Berlin, Palais am Funkturm	Helene Fischer
March 27, 2014	Berlin, Messe Berlin	Helene Fischer
March 26, 2015	Berlin, Messe Berlin	Barbara Schöneberger
April 7, 2016	Berlin, Messe Berlin	Barbara Schöneberger
April 6, 2017	Berlin, Messe Berlin	Xavier Naidoo and Sasha	VOX
April 12, 2018	Berlin, Messe Berlin	-

Award winners

→ Main article : List of Echo Pop Prize Winners

Multiple winners

17 echoes Helene Fischer 13 echoes Kastelruther sparrows 11 echoes Herbert Grönemeyer The dead pants 10 echoes Rammstein 9 echoes Robbie Williams 8 echoes Andrea Berg Udo Lindenberg Marius Müller-Westernhagen 7 echoes Silver moon 6 echoes Eminem Peter Maffay Xavier Naidoo 5 echoes The doctors Bushido The fantastic Four Kollegah Wolfgang Petry Pure Stefan Raab Rose pride Ed Sheeran Unholy 4 echoes Coldplay Enigma Peter Fox Andreas Gabalier Andreas Herbig Linkin Park Ina Müller Santiano Sasha Robin Schulz Saturn Virgin Records We are Heroes

3 echoes 50 cents AC / DC Adele Amazon Germany Till Brönner Howard Carpendale Sarah Connor Deichkind David Garrett Guano apes Annette Humpe I + me Joris Lady Gaga LaFee Madonna Lena Meyer-Landrut No Angels DJ Ötzi Pink Floyd Red hot chili peppers Peter "Jem" Seifert Sabrina Setlur Sports fans Stiller Tokio Hotel

space nation Echoes 1  Germany 479 2  United States 70 3  United Kingdom 60 4th  Italy 20th 5  Canada 15th  Austria 7th  Sweden 6th 8th  Australia 5  Netherlands 10  France 4th  Ireland 12  Belgium 3  Finland  Switzerland  South Africa 16  Argentina 2  Denmark  Georgia  Greece  Cuba  Spain  Trinidad and Tobago 23  Azerbaijan 1  Colombia  Mexico  Moldova  New Zealand  Nigeria  Poland  Puerto Rico  Czech Republic

More records

Most echoes in one evening (4)

• 2013 : Die Toten Hosen (in the categories: Group National Rock / Pop, Hit of the Year, Album of the Year, Producer / Team of the Year)
• 2015 : Helene Fischer (in the categories: Schlager, Hit of the Year, Album of the Year, Music DVD / Blu-ray national)
• 2016 : Helene Fischer (in the categories: album of the year, crossover, live act national, music DVD / Blu-ray national)

Most winners in a category (13)

• Kastelruther Spatzen , the popular music group Kastelruther Spatzen, has won the Echo Pop 13 times in the category "Group (Schlager / Folk Music)".

Most award winners in one category in a row (7)

Kastelruther Spatzen , the popular music group Kastelruther Spatzen, won the Echo Pop seven times in a row from 1996 to 2003 in the "Group (Schlager / Folk Music)" category.

Youngest award winner

• 2005 : Joy Gruttmann , at the age of nine, won an echo as the singer of the Schnappi music project in the Download of the Year category .

particularities

• 2002 : Herbert Grönemeyer , he won an Echo Pop in the Music Home Video DVD category for the second time after 2001 with his video album Stand der Dinge . To date, no one has been able to win an Echo Pop for the same work in two different years.
• 2005 : Thomas D handed over his Echo, which he had won with the Fantastischen Vier in the category “Artist or Group (Hip-Hop / R & B)”, to Sido .
• 2015 : Helene Fischer , with her sixth studio album Farbenspiel she won an Echo Pop for the second time in the album of the year category after 2014 . So far, only Grönemeyer has been able to win an echo for the same work in two different years.

See also

• Echo (music award)
• Echo jazz
• Echo classic
• Media in Berlin

Web links

Commons : ECHO (music award)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Echo - German Music Prize / Echo Klassik / Echo Jazz on the website of the German Federal Association of Music Industry e. V. (BVMI)
• Echo Pop website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Renner : Children, death isn't that bad: About the future of the music and media industry. Rogner & Bernhard at Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8077-1045-7
2. ↑ ECHO Category Folder 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) last accessed on March 22, 2012 
3. ^ Statement by Gerd Gebhardt on planet-interview.de , March 21, 2012
4. ↑ Tim Renner on the Echo Awards: 20 Years of Bullshit Bingo
5. ^ Comment by Stefan Niggemeier
6. ↑ New ECHO Advisory Board at Mittelbayerische.de last accessed on: February 15, 2014
7. ↑ Echo 2017: fewer categories, more jury at the German Music Prize , Music Week, January 26, 2017
8. ↑ A new start for the German Music Prize. Federal Association of the German Music Industry, April 25, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2018 . 
9. ↑ http://www.verbaende.com/news.php/ECHO-2017-Verleihung-des-wichtsten-deutschen-Musikpreises-wird-im-naechsten-jahr-neu-gestaltet?m=113396
10. ↑ ^{a b} http://meedia.de/2017/03/28/neustart-fuer-den-echo-2017-kann-man-die-verleihung-des-wichtsten-deutschen-musikpreises-ueberhaupt-noch-ernst-haben /
11. ↑ RTL loads Oomph! out. n-tv.de, accessed on March 4, 2018 . 
12. ↑ "Frei.Wild" -Eklat with music: Now also return "doctors" the echo back. Focus , March 7, 2013, accessed September 22, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Music Prize: Controversial band Frei.Wild gets an echo. In: Spiegel Online . April 8, 2016, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Elena Witzek: Auschwitz Committee criticizes Echo participation by Kollegah and Farid Bang. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, features section, April 11, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Marius Müller-Westernhagen returns prices. In: morgenpost.de . April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .