Polaris Music Prize
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The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize. The Polaris Music Prize is modelled after the Mercury Music Prize, which is handed to the best British or Irish album over the past year[1]. The award is sponsored by Rogers, Sirius Satellite Radio, Radio Starmaker Fund, and the Canadian Recording Industry Association, and the ceremony is broadcast live on CBC Radio 3.
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[edit] Jury and selection process
There is no submission process or entry fee for the Polaris Music Prize. Jurors select what they consider to be the five best Canadian albums released in the previous year. The ballots are tabulated with each number one pick awarded five points, a number two pick awarded four points and so on. A “long list” of every eligible album is then sent back to the jury. The jurors then re-submit five top picks from this "long list." These ballots are retabulated and the top ten titles form the Polaris shortlist.
The ultimate winner is decided by a smaller group of 11 jury members who convene in Toronto, where the winner is announced at the Polaris Music Prize Gala in late September.
Jurors are selected by the Polaris Music Prize board of directors. The jury list includes more than 170 Canadian music journalists, bloggers and broadcasters. To ensure an impartial outcome no one with direct financial relationships with artists is eligible to become a jury member. The organization itself is a registered, not-for-profit corporation. Another key benefit of enlisting only music journalists as judges is the increased media coverage and it boosts the ultimate goal of drawing attention to quality music in a cluttered commercial landscape and increasingly fractured music scene.[2]
Notable jurors have included former MuchMusic VJ Hannah Sung, Toronto Star music columnists Ben Rayner and John Sakamoto, CFNY-FM program director Alan Cross, CBC Radio personalities Jowi Taylor, Patti Schmidt, Jian Ghomeshi, Matt Galloway, Grant Lawrence and Amanda Putz, Voir music journalists Stéphane Martel, Patrick Baillargeon and Olivier Robillard-Laveaux and CBC News: The Hour's host George Stroumboulopoulos.
[edit] Awards by year
- 2006 - Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds
- 2007 - Patrick Watson, Close to Paradise
- 2008 - TBA
[edit] See also
- Mercury Music Prize (United Kingdom)
- Shortlist Prize (United States)
- Choice Music Prize (Republic of Ireland)
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ The Polaris Music Prize Will Go To Canada's Best Album. Retrieved on July 4, 2006.
- ^ Follow the North Star. Retrieved on August 1, 2007.
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