Music Moves Europe Talent Awards
Prize Package 2021
The European Union will support all Music Moves Europe Talent Awards winners with a prize package worth €10.000. The goal of the European Union is to reward the winners with a prize package that will contribute further towards the development of their international careers. The European Union wishes to help the winners break borders, reach new markets, learn new skills and expand their knowledge. This prize package has a value of € 10.000 prize and is split into two parts: Touring & Promotional support and Business Training.
TOURING & PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT: € 10.000
The European Union kindly contributes € 10.000 to each winner to help them cover expenses related to international touring and promotion. The prize can be spent on any kind of touring or promotional expenses like: nightliner rentals, hotels, ad campaigns, promotional materials, etc.
promotional materials, etc.
Creative Europe is the European Commission’s framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors. Following on from the previous Culture Programme and MEDIA programme, Creative Europe, with a budget of €1.46 billion (9% higher than its predecessors), will support Europe’s cultural and creative sectors.
Business Training package
OFFER EMEE All music export bureaus are members of our partner EMEE (European Music Exporters Exchange). The winners will be offered help in choosing the right offers.
EMEE is a non-profit association made up of 24 national and regional Music Export offices from all over Europe, with its registered office based in Brussels. It pulls together a mix of public and private funding to support European musicians, music companies and music professionals in their export strategies.
1. Offers from the live sector
In order to help the winners support their business in new territories and to learn about new markets, our partners in the live sector, offer them exposure and booking opportunities across Europe.
OFFER LIVEUROPE
All winners of the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards will get the opportunity to meet with three venue bookers of Liveurope members. Liveurope will facilitate the networking opportunities.
Liveurope is an organisation which brings together international concert venues across Europe. The platform is coordinated by Ancienne Belgique, and it includes 15 member venues across Europe, like: A38, Budapest HU, Melkweg, Amsterdam NL, Musicbox, Lisbon PT, Vega, Copenhagen DK, and Village Underground, London UK.
OFFER YOUROPE
All the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards winners will get the opportunity to meet with three venue bookers that work for member organisations of Yourope. Yourope will facilitate the networking opportunities.
Yourope was founded in 1998 and has evolved into the most important association of European Festivals. The association currently counts over 100 festivals across Europe. The members include, EXIT Festival RS, Lollapalooza Berlin DE, Lowlands NL, Montreux Jazz Festival CH, Rock en Seine FR, Roskilde Festival DK, Sziget Festival HU and Wacken Open Air DE.
OFFER LIVE DMA
Live DMA’s is offering the winning artists European media coverage through an interview and broadcast of one of their songs in their Live Style Europe podcast which is aimed at live music professionals all over Europe. This podcast is done in partnership with Euradio, a European radio station with studios in France and Brussels.
Live DMA is a European non-governmental network working to support and promote the conditions of the live music sector.
2. Offers from the record industry
OFFER IMPALA
For winners of the Music Moves Europe Talents Award, IMPALA offers a tailored one-on-one session with an expert of the independent recorded music sector focused on expanding their business in new markets. The session will be tailored to the winners needs with the purpose of helping to improve their career. During 45 minutes, the expert will provide them with tips, business intelligence, networking advice and other relevant information related to the recorded music sector, while answering any questions they may have on the topic.
IMPALA is an independent music companies association with over 4,000 members focusing on supporting independent labels across Europe.
Digital Music Europe (DME) represents Europe’s leading digital music innovators that have revolutionized how people discover, enjoy and experience music. Digital Music Europe members includes Soundcharts, Spotify, Qobuz, and Deezer offering contributions to the business support package for the winning artists.
OFFER SOUNDCHARTS
All Music Moves Europe Talent Awards winners will get an annual FREE account on Soundcharts´ platform. Soundcharts is a music analytics tool that helps artists understand and build out their online presence.
Soundcharts is the leading analytics platform of the music industry. Soundcharts provides global, real-time insights on the artists’ performance and market trends; monitoring data at scale across AM/FM radio airplay, digital music services, key social media platforms, and web mentions.
OFFER SPOTIFY
Spotify offers each winner of the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards to join a free Spotify Masterclass. Masterclasses are an opportunity to take artists through Spotify’s best practices, providing them with the knowledge and skills to help them find and develop their audience and build out their overall presence.
Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world.
OFFER QOBUZ
The winners of the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards will get a FREE annual subscription to their streaming service.
Qobuz offers more than 40 million tracks available for high sound quality unlimited streaming. Qobuz is also the worldwide leader in 24-bit – Hires music for streaming and downloads.
3. Networking offers
OFFER IMMF
As the needs of each artist can be different due to genre diversity and market segments, IMMF offers customized workshops which will be organized in consultation with the winners.
International Music Managers Forum (IMMF) is the global network for self managed artists, and artists representatives. The needs of artists vary across their career, and activities, IMMF offers a discussion with each artist and their representatives to review their current needs, and potential support.
FROM THE ORGANISERS OF THE AWARD
OFFER RBF
To help the winners further expand your network and meet other music professionals, Music Moves Europe Talent Awards offers free delegate tickets to the managers for RBF 2021.
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the biggest showcase festival of Europe and offers a stage to European artists over four days. The festival attracts over 4.000 professional delegates, including 400 international festivals, and showcases around 350 European artists for over 40.000 visitors total.
OFFER ESNS
To help the winners further expand your network and meet other music professionals, Music Moves Europe Talent Awards offers free delegate tickets to the managers for ESNS 2022.
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the biggest showcase festival of Europe and offers a stage to European artists over four days. The festival attracts over 4.000 professional delegates, including 400 international festivals, and showcases around 350 European artists for over 40.000 visitors total.
Public Choice Winner 2020
PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD 2020
The European Union is awarding the winner of the Public Choice Award of the MUSIC MOVES EUROPE TALENT AWARDS 2021 with € 5.000 !
OFFER DEEZER
In addition to the cash prize, our partner organisation DME is giving away a special offer presented by Deezer. The winner of the Public Choice Award will be invited to a filmed session at the Deezer Studios in Paris! All travel costs will be covered directly by the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards.
Deezer is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world.
