Victoires de la Musique 2012

This weekend sees the high point of the French music awards calendar, with the Victoires de la Musique 2012 taking place.

The award ceremony, which has been running since 1985, is broadcast live from Paris on France 2 on Saturday night.

The awards cover a wide variety of categories, while not quite as many as the Grammies, The majority of the awards are selected by votes from music industry professionals, and there are a couple of punlic votes.

Personally I think it would have been interesting if Alain Bashung had been nominated, perhaps for best music video. During his lifetime he won more Victoire awards than anyone else, and it would have been somehow appropriate for a posthumous one for the album that came out last year.

There's no category yet for best Anglophone blog covering the French music scene, but hopefully one day!


Male artist of the year:

Benjamin Biolay
Julien Clerc
Thomas Dutronc
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

Female artist of the year:

Catherine Ringer
Camille
Nolwenn Leroy
Zaz

Breatkthrough group or artist (public vote)

Brigitte
L
Inna Modja
Orelsan

Breakthrough group or artist

Alexis HK
Brigitte
Imany
Skip The Use
Chanson album of the year


Camille - "Ilo Veyou"
Coeur de Pirate - "Blonde"
Catherine Ringer - "Ring'n'roll"
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - "Suppléments de mensonge"


Song of the year (public vote)

Jean-Louis Aubert - "Puisses-tu"
Camille - "L'étourderie"
Mika - "Elle me dit"
Laurent Voulzy - "Jeanne"
Show/tour of the year


Jean-Louis Aubert
Catherine Ringer
Stromae
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

Rock album of the year

Archimède - "Trafalgar"
Izia - "So Much Trouble"
Keren Ann - "101"
Shaka Ponk - "The Geeks & The Jerkin Socks"

Rap/urban album of the year

Booba - "Autopsie, Vol. 4"
Joeystarr - "Egomaniac"
La Fouine - "La Fouine vs. Laouni"
Orelsan - "Le chant des sirènes"

World music album of the year

Jehro - "Cantina Paradise"
Magic System - "Touté Kalé"
Titi Robin - "Les Rives"
Tinariwen - "Tassili"

Electronic music album of the year

General Elektriks - "Parker Street"
David Guetta - "Nothing But the Beat"
Justice - "Audio, Video, Disco"
Yuksek - "Living on the Edge of Time"

Video clip of the year

Julien Doré - "Kiss Me Forever"
Inna Modja - "French Cancan"
Orelsan - "Raelsan"
Vanessa Paradis et M - "la Seine"

Music DVD of the year

Indochine - "Putain de stade"
M - "les Saisons de passage"
Christophe Maé - "On trace la route, live"
Raphael - "Live, filmé par Jacques Audiard"