Golden Microphone’23 albums are judged in 11 genre categories, debut, album design and songs are distinguished separately. The jury also evaluates the audiovisual performance in the video and concert recording categories. The leaders of all album categories are voted Disc of the year. The song most listened to on radio stations will receive an award in the category radio hits, while in the new appointment The most listened record with Elektrum the most played track or song on music streaming sites will be rewarded. Listeners can give their favorite music tracks a Like Award by participating Elvi songs of the year in a vote that will close during the ceremony.
“Also this year, the number of applications for the Music Recording of the Year award has increased Golden microphone is slightly lower than last year, in general, the submitted entries give an objective picture of musical life in Latvia in 2022,” says music critic and journalist Jānis Žilde, who was elected president of the jury for the first time this year .
Žilde outlines the challenges of the jury’s work: “Like every year, a big test for the jury is to put all submitted works into shelves or categories, the number of which is limited. For example, jazz is again paired with funk , rock with metal, because there are not always enough voices even in every genre issue Golden microphone the ceremony must adapt to the compact needs of live television. Traditionally Debut the category must be correct, because already well-known and experienced musicians with ten, fifteen and even more years of experience in the music industry still want to see their works in this nomination, which is not in line with the philosophical attitude expressed in the regulation of the prize, or “categories Debbie the priority is the evaluation of new talent”. This year, the jury also followed the changes in the global music industry, which has been showing a growing trend for several years: both compositions and EPs and albums are getting shorter. Therefore, in order to keep up with the spirit of the times, as well as to show hospitality to individual musicians, there are intense discussions about changes in the award rules regarding EP timings.
As the results compile, Golden Microphone’23 in collaboration with Green belt And On principle invites you to participate in the campaign Old telephone or golden microphone? recycle your old cell phones. Encouraging long-term thinking and understanding of raw material recycling, special boxes will be placed in ELVI stores across Latvia until 1 February in which to leave used phones to get gold to gild microphone figurines by recycling them. On average, a cell phone contains 0.034 grams of gold. To get the required amount of recycled gold only Golden microphone for the gilding of the statuettes, the delivery of at least 100 cell phones for the conversion would suffice.
It has already been reported that the annual Latvian Music Recording Award “Zelta Mikrofons’23” will be held on February 18, 2023 at the International Exhibition Center in Ķīpsala, with the audience attending for the first time. Tickets for the ceremony can be purchased at ekase.lv. The winners of “Zelta Mikrofons’23” will receive two prizes: a physical and a digital statuette. Internationally recognized Latvian artist KIWIE creates a different NFT for each nomination or brings to life the statuette in digital crypto-art.
