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The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 with a $20,000 cash prize; the prize was increased to $30,000 for the 2011 award.〔("2011 Polaris Music Prize Long List announced" ). aux.tv, June 16, 2011.〕 In May 2015, it was announced the Polaris Music Prize winner will now receive $50,000, an additional $20,000, thanks to the sponsorship of Slaight Music. Additionally, second place prizes which go to the nine other acts on the Short List will increase from $2,000 to $3,000. Polaris officials also announced they will be creating The Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize, a sort of hall of fame award that "will annually honour five albums from the five decades before Polaris launched in 2006." Details about the selection process for this prize are still to be revealed.〔http://polarismusicprize.ca/blog/polaris-music-prize-money-2015-slaight/〕 The Polaris Music Prize is modeled after United Kingdom/Ireland's Mercury Prize〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Polaris Music Prize: An Oral History as told by its founders, jurors, and winners )〕 and in turn, inspired the Atlantis Music Prize for Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2014 Polaris sponsors included Aux, FACTOR, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Slaight Communications, Radio Starmaker Fund, SiriusXM, Recording Artists' Collecting Society (RACS), Stingray Music/Galaxie, Long & McQuade, The Carlu and Ticketfly. Past sponsors have included Rogers Communications and Scion. The Polaris Music Prize gala is broadcast live via SiriusXM, video streamed live on AUX.tv and rebroadcast via cable on AUX TV. On July 16, 2015 it was announced〔http://polarismusicprize.ca/blog/2015-polaris-music-prize-short-list/〕 children's entertainer Fred Penner will host the 2015 Polaris Gala taking place September 21, 2015 at The Carlu in Toronto. ==Jury and selection process== There is no submission process or entry fee for the Polaris Music Prize.〔 Jurors select what they consider to be the five best Canadian albums released in the previous year. The ballots are tabulated with each number one pick awarded five points, a number two pick awarded four points and so on. A long list of 40 titles is tabulated, released in mid June and promoted to the public. The long list is then sent back to the jury. The jurors then re-submit five top picks from this long list. These ballots are re-tabulated and the top ten titles form the Polaris short list. This list is released in early July and promoted to the public.〔 The ultimate winner is decided by a smaller group of 11 jury members ("The Grand Jury") who convene in Toronto at the Polaris Music Prize gala in late September, and the decision is finalized during the gala as the nominated bands perform.〔 Grand jurors are selected so that each of the shortlisted albums has one person in the jury room to advocate for it; ten are selected on the basis of having named one of the shortlisted albums as their top pick in the balloting, while the remaining jury position is given to a person who had voted for ''none'' of the shortlisted albums.〔''Here and Now'', September 22, 2014.〕 Jurors are selected by the Polaris Music Prize board of directors.〔 The jury list includes more than 200 Canadian music journalists, bloggers and broadcasters. To ensure an impartial outcome, no one with direct financial relationships with artists is eligible to become a jury member.〔 The organization itself is a registered, not-for-profit corporation. Another key benefit of enlisting music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers as judges is the increased media coverage and creates the conditions to draw attention to quality music in a cluttered commercial landscape and increasingly fractured music scene.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Predicting Polaris: Picking Canada's Best Album )〕 Notable jurors have included former MuchMusic VJs Hannah Sung and Hannah Simone, ''Toronto Star'' music columnists Ben Rayner and John Sakamoto, Darryl Sterdan (''Winnipeg Sun''), Mike Bell (''Calgary Herald''), Stuart Derdeyn (''Vancouver Province''), Stephen Cooke (''The Chronicle Herald''), T'Cha Dunlevy (''Montreal Gazette''), Sandra Sperounes (''Edmonton Journal''), Brad Wheeler (''The Globe and Mail''), Alan Ranta (''Exclaim!''), Explore Music broadcaster Alan Cross, CBC Radio personalities Jowi Taylor, Patti Schmidt, Jian Ghomeshi, Matt Galloway, Grant Lawrence, Lana Gay, Lisa Christiansen and Amanda Putz, ''Voir'' music journalists Stéphane Martel, Patrick Baillargeon and Olivier Robillard-Laveaux and ''The Hour'' host George Stroumboulopoulos. On November 3, 2014 Jian Ghomeshi, the disgraced former CBC ''Q'' host and host of the very first Polaris Gala, was dropped from the Polaris juror pool. Polaris officials have made no official announcement on the subject.〔("Polaris Music Prize removes Jian Ghomeshi from its jury" ). ''Toronto Star'', November 3, 2014.〕 In 2015, the Polaris jury also launched the Polaris Heritage Prize, an annual award program to honour classic Canadian albums released prior to the creation of the Polaris Prize.〔("Polaris Music Prize Announces Heritage Prize Nominees" ). ''Exclaim!'', September 18, 2015.〕 Each year, the Heritage Prize will present four awards to one album each from the 1960s/70s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000-2005.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polaris Music Prize」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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