PROMUSICAE
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Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry. It is the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry group for Spain.
Since April 30, 2003, Antonio Guisasola is the president of PROMUSICAE, replacing Carlos Grande.
for the week from the preceding Saturday to the Friday prior to calculation. The new charts are usually uploaded to the official PROMUSICAE website on Sunday night Spanish continental time.
PROMUSICAE provides the following charts:
records in Spain. It certifies Gold and Platinum recordings based on the shipment of albums and the sales of digital downloads.
Physical singles
Original Tones and Digital downloads
, one of the main missions of Promusicae is lobbying for tougher intellectual property
laws and fighting music piracy.
Promusicae has monitored P2P
networks gathering data about its users downloading music. In April 2005, Promusicae claimed that they were monitoring the Kazaa
P2P network and they had sent "messages" containing warnings and legal threats to more than 10.000 users In early 2008, Promusicae started a judicial process against Telefónica
, the biggest Spanish Internet service provider
, demanding that personal data of Kazaa
users they monitored should be handed over to Promusicae, so they can start suing them. The Promusicae v. Telefónica case continued until the European Court of Justice
, who sentenced that Telefónica
has no obligation of handing user data over to Promusicae.
In June 2008, Promusicae sued Pablo Soto
, developer of Manolito P2P, Blubster and Piolet. Promusicae claimed that Pablo Soto was engaging in unfair competition and demanded 13 million euros in damages.
Promusicae is one of the founders of La Coalición de Creadores e Industrias de Contenidos, a group of companies whose mission is changing Spanish law to be able to prosecute file-sharing.
History
PROMUSICAE born in the 1950s as representative of the IFPI in Spain under the name of the Spanish Group of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , although not officially an association, since Spanish law during the Franco regime did not recognize the right of association until 1977. In 1978, it was registered as an association under the name Spanish Phonographic Association (AFE). In 1982, with the emergence and popularization of the music video, the AFE changed its name to Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain (AFYVE). Finally, in 2004, AFYVE partners by General Assembly decided to change to its current name, Spanish Music Producers (PROMUSICAE).Since April 30, 2003, Antonio Guisasola is the president of PROMUSICAE, replacing Carlos Grande.
Charts
The charts are calculated once every week on Sundays. They are based on retail music sales within SpainSpain
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for the week from the preceding Saturday to the Friday prior to calculation. The new charts are usually uploaded to the official PROMUSICAE website on Sunday night Spanish continental time.
PROMUSICAE provides the following charts:
- Top 50 songs
- Top 100 albums chart
- Top 20 compilations chart
- Top 20 DVD Chart
- Airplay Chart
Certifications
PROMUSICAE is in charge of certifyingMusic recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
records in Spain. It certifies Gold and Platinum recordings based on the shipment of albums and the sales of digital downloads.
Albums
Initially until October 2005, the certification-levels for albums in Spain were 50,000 for Gold and 100,000 for Platinum. The current levels; however, are 20,000 for Gold and 40,000 for Platinum.| Certification | Before October 24, 2005 | Before September 6, 2009 | Before October 23, 2011 | Since October 24, 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 50,000 | 40,000 | 30,000 | 20,000 |
| Platinum | 100,000 | 80,000 | 60,000 | 40,000 |
Singles
In January 2008, due to a decline in Physical singles, PROMUSICAE replaced the charts of the physical singles with two separate Top 20 charts, one for Digital downloads and the other for Original Tones (similar to Ringtones). The change was reflected to the certifications as well, and allowed each single title to receive two separate types of certification awards. The two certification formats were combined together in January 2009, reflecting, again, the charts becoming a single chart. In the meantime, PROMUSICAE raised the certification-levels to 20,000 for Gold and 40,000 for Platinum from the previous 10,000/20,000.Physical singles
| Certification | Before October 24, 2005 | Before March 24, 2007 | Since March 24, 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 25,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Platinum | 50,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 |
Original Tones and Digital downloads
| Certification "Original Tones" and "Digital downloads" instituted on January 1, 2008 | Before January 1, 2009 | "Original Tones" and "Digital downloads" combined |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | 10,000 | 20,000 |
| Platinum | 20,000 | 40,000 |
Music DVDs
| Certification | |
|---|---|
| Gold | 10,000 |
| Platinum | 25,000 |
Piracy
As a member of IFPIIFPI
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...
, one of the main missions of Promusicae is lobbying for tougher intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
laws and fighting music piracy.
Promusicae has monitored P2P
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
networks gathering data about its users downloading music. In April 2005, Promusicae claimed that they were monitoring the Kazaa
Kazaa
Kazaa Media Desktop started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks...
P2P network and they had sent "messages" containing warnings and legal threats to more than 10.000 users In early 2008, Promusicae started a judicial process against Telefónica
Telefónica
Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...
, the biggest Spanish Internet service provider
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
, demanding that personal data of Kazaa
Kazaa
Kazaa Media Desktop started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks...
users they monitored should be handed over to Promusicae, so they can start suing them. The Promusicae v. Telefónica case continued until the European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice
The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges...
, who sentenced that Telefónica
Telefónica
Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...
has no obligation of handing user data over to Promusicae.
In June 2008, Promusicae sued Pablo Soto
Pablo Soto
Pablo Soto was born in Spain in 1979. In 2001 he developed the MANOLITO protocol, Blubster and Piolet - two peer-to-peer file-sharing servents.He apparently left the MP2P Community in 2004, subsequently Blubster and Piolet slowly began to lose their user base...
, developer of Manolito P2P, Blubster and Piolet. Promusicae claimed that Pablo Soto was engaging in unfair competition and demanded 13 million euros in damages.
Promusicae is one of the founders of La Coalición de Creadores e Industrias de Contenidos, a group of companies whose mission is changing Spanish law to be able to prosecute file-sharing.