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popNRW Prize

Award for outstanding bands from NRW

The ‘popNRW Prize’, which is awarded jointly with the Landesmusikrat NRW, is one of the best endowed and most prestigious awards for pop musicians in Germany. On 15 October 2020, the coveted award was presented for the thirteenth time to successful musicians and promising newcomers from the region at the Gloria Theatre in Cologne. The €10,000 first prize in the ‘Outstanding Artists’ category went to Mina Richman, while maïa received the €2,500 sponsorship award for ‘Best Newcomer’. In addition to the prize money, the musicians can look forward to an additional career boost and an increase in their popularity.

The prizes have been funded by the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs since 2016. Under the auspices of the NRW KULTURsekretariat, an expert jury of industry representatives, festival organisers and journalists, supplemented by suggestions from an advisory board of representatives from the field of pop promotion, triffes the pre-selection of artists and groups. Time and again, the popNRW jury has demonstrated a keen instinct for promising awards. Illustrious names such as Roosevelt, Giant Rooks, Amilli, Von Spar, Messer, Goldroger, International Music, Blumengarten, Serious Klein, Die P and Philine Sonny bear witness to this. 

The 14th popNRW Prize will be awarded in Düsseldorf in 2025.