IFPI Austria - Association of the Austrian Music Industry

IFPI Austria - Association of the Austrian Music Industry
legal form	society
purpose	Representation of the interests of the Austrian music industry
Seat	Vienna
founding	1968
president	Hannes Eder
Board	Stephan Dorfmeister, Hannes Eder, Gerhard Fenz, Dietmar Lienbacher, Franz Pleterski
executive Director	Franz Medwenitsch
Website	www.ifpi.at

IFPI Austria is the association of the Austrian music industry and the Austrian national group of IFPI .

tasks

The members of IFPI Austria include major labels as well as independent companies and make up around 90% of the Austrian music market. The association's president is Dietmar Lienbacher from Sony Music Austria, and the lawyer Franz Medwenitsch has been the managing director since 1993. The association sits down u. a. for the protection of intellectual property and the fight against music piracy , organizes the annual Amadeus Austrian Music Award , publishes the official Austrian sales charts Austria Top 40 and has been awarding gold and platinum awards since 1986 .

Limits to the award of phonograms

Albums

Award	until December 31, 2000	until December 31, 2002	until December 31, 2006	until December 31, 2012	since January 1, 2013
gold	25,000	20,000	15,000	10,000	7,500
platinum	50,000	40,000	30,000	20,000	15,000
2 × platinum	100,000	80,000	60,000	40,000	30,000
...

Singles

Award	until December 31, 1988	until December 31, 2000	until December 31, 2002	since January 1, 2003
gold	50,000	25,000	20,000	15,000
platinum	100,000	50,000	40,000	30,000
2 × platinum	200,000	100,000	80,000	60,000
...

Video albums

Award	since January 1, 2003
gold	5,000
platinum	10,000
2 × platinum	20,000
...

Web links

• Official website

supporting documents

1. ^ Association of the Austrian Music Industry - IFPI Austria. In: Unternehmens24.at. Unimedia, accessed December 8, 2015 . 
2. ^ Sony Music Entertainment: Sony Music Entertainment. Retrieved April 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Dr. Franz Medwenitsch. (No longer available online.) ORF , archived from the original on December 21, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 . 
4. ^ IFPI organization. IFPI Austria, accessed on April 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} rolands: gold, platinum & diamond. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, February 26, 2004, accessed December 8, 2015 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} gold & platinum. IFPI Austria, accessed on December 8, 2015 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Gold & Platinum database ( Memento of July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). IFPI Austria, accessed on December 8, 2015.