Productores de Música de España


Productores de Música de España is the national organisation responsible for the music charts of Spain. It is a trade association that represents more than 90% of the Spanish recorded music industry. It is the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry group for Spain. Promusicae is based in Madrid, Spain at Calle María de Molina, 39.

History

Promusicae began in 1958 as a 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 . In 1982, with the emergence and popularization of the music video, the AFE changed its name to Phonographic and Videographic Association of Spain . Finally, in 2004, AFYVE partners by General Assembly decided to change to its current name, Spanish Music Producers. Promusicae, which is also a pun with the Latin expression "pro musicae", which means "for / in favor of the music".
Since 30 April 2003, Antonio Guisasola has been president of Promusicae, replacing Carlos Grande.

Charts

The charts are calculated once every week on Sundays. They are based on retail music sales within Spain for the week from the preceding Saturday to the Friday prior to calculation. The new charts are usually uploaded to the Promusicae website on Sunday night Spanish continental time. As of January 2015, the Top 100 songs are based on streaming and both download and physical sales.
Promusicae provides the following charts:
Certifications have existed in Spain since the mid-1970s. During this period, both singles and albums had to sell 100,000 copies to qualify for a Gold disk, the only certification awarded at the time. By 1982, there was also a Double Gold award for albums that sold 200,000 copies.
Promusicae is currently in charge of certifying records in Spain. It certifies Gold and Platinum recordings based on the shipment of albums and the sales of digital downloads.

Albums

Until 1 November 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.
In the table below are the certification levels, when the program of Gold and Platinum is operated under Promusicae.
CertificationBefore 1 November 2005Before 6 September 2009Before 1 November 2011Since 1 November 2011
Gold50,00040,00030,00020,000
Platinum100,00080,00060,00040,000

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. 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
Note that in the table below are the certification-levels, when the program of Gold and Platinum is operated under Promusicae.
CertificationBefore 1 November 2005Before 1 April 2007Since 1 April 2007Since 1 January 2009
Gold25,00010,00010,000Suppressed
Platinum50,00020,00025,000Suppressed

;Original Tones and Digital downloads
Note that in the table below are the certification-levels, when the program of Gold and Platinum is operated under Promusicae.
Certification
"Original Tones" and "Digital downloads" instituted on 1 January 2008		Before 1 January 2009Since 1 January 2009
"Original Tones" and "Digital downloads" combined
Gold10,00020,000
Platinum20,00040,000

;Streaming
Certification
"Streaming" instituted on 10 November 2013		Since 10 November 2013
Gold5,000,000
Platinum10,000,000

Music DVDs

Note that in the table below are the certification-levels, when the program of Gold and Platinum is operated under Promusicae.

Piracy

As a member of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, one of Promusicae's main purposes is to lobby for tougher intellectual property laws to stop music copyright violations.
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, which ruled that Telefónica did not have an obligation to hand 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.