Echo Music Prize

Echo Music Prize
Echo Music Prize
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Country	Germany
Presented by	Deutsche Phono-Akademie
First awarded	18 May 1992
Last awarded	12 April 2018
Website	echopop.de
Television/radio coverage
Network	Das Erste (2009–2016); VOX (2017–2018)

Echo Music Prize (stylised as ECHO, German pronunciation: [ˈɛço]) was an accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie [de], an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first ECHO Awards ceremony was held in 1992, and was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1991, succeeding the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, which was awarded from 1963 to 2018. Each year's winner was determined by the previous year's sales. In April 2018, following controversy regarding that year's ceremony, the Bundesverband Musikindustrie announced the end of the award.^[1]^[2]

^ "Der Echo wird abgeschafft". faz.net (in German). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
^ "Germany to Discontinue ECHO Awards, the Country's Top Music Prize, After Anti-Semitic Lyric Backlash". Billboard. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

[1] "Der Echo wird abgeschafft". faz.net (in German). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

[Billboard_End-2] "Germany to Discontinue ECHO Awards, the Country's Top Music Prize, After Anti-Semitic Lyric Backlash". Billboard. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

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