The Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos (UNIMPRO) (English: Peruvian Union of Phonograph Producers) is a

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and

industry trade group A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partici ...

integrated by multinational and national record companies in

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

composed of various Peruvian corporations involved in the

music industry The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, ...

. It was founded in 2001 and it serves as the affiliate member of the

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a non-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland and founded in Italy in 19 ...

(IFPI) in the country since 2012 and also serves as the national

ISRC The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) is an international standard code for uniquely identifying sound recordings and music video recordings. The code was developed by the recording industry in conjunction with the ISO technical committ ...

agency. It is one of the three collective societies in Perú along with Asociación Peruana de Autores y Compositores (APDAYC) and Sociedad Nacional de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes de la Música (SONIEM).

History

UNIMPRO is a collective management society that represents the cultural music industry in Perú and for this it has a technical, professional and highly specialized organization. It is constituted as a non-profit association, its members are natural or legal people and represent the intellectual property rights of the most important labels of national and international record companies and independent phonographic producers. It was founded on July 19, 2001, and its existence was published in the official gazette, ''

El Peruano ''Diario Oficial El Peruano'' (''The Peruvian Official Newspaper'') is the official daily newspaper of Peru. The paper was founded on 22 October 1825 by Simón Bolívar although it changed names between the following decades and it was not publi ...

'', on August 1, 2001. They are the second Peruvian music organization certified with

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after Asociación Peruana de Autores y Compositores (APDAYC) which has been around since 1952. In 2010, UNIMPRO Francisco Samillán reported that in Perú there are more than 300 independent music producers and each one charges up to 20,000 nuevos soles per month for the reproduction of their recordings. That was a big difference from 2005 when the number of national independent producers didn't even pass ten. In May 2021, they worked with El Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (Indecopi) in blocking 17 illegal websites that allowed downloading of works under the form of stream-ripping and the transmission of sporting events via streaming after being notified by La Comisión de Derecho de Autor del Indecopi (CDA).

Music charts

Airplay charts

UNIMPRO has calculated monthly a Top 20 Airplay charts for both radio and TV independently since their founding and in alliance with BMAT Music Innovation since 2014. The monthly charts are private and not open to the public without subscription, but some archives from as early as 2009 are found on their official website. Other archives of the monthly charts can be found within their monthly newsletters and on wayback machine. They also have published yearly airplay charts but only the ones from 2016 and 2017 is available to the public online.

Digital charts

UNIMPRO also calculates the Digital Top 1000 chart but only five archives from 2021 are available online.

Music recording certification

UNIMPRO is the organization awarding

music recording certification Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music Sound recording, recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation o ...

s in Perú. Originally, only albums were certified, with certification levels of 5,000 for Gold album and 10,000 for Platinum. By 2007 the levels were lowered to 3,000 and 6,000 respectively which lasted at least until June 2013. In the 2010 annual report by IFPI, it was reported that around 200,000 albums were sold in Peru, which was a 35.3% increase in unit sales from the previous year. That was a big surprise mostly because earlier that same year it was reported that Perú was the second country in South America to lose the most money due to piracy only behind Brazil. Still, overall this represents a decline of over 96% in sales volume from the year 2000, when over 5,000,000 CD's were sold in Peru through legitimate channels. One year later, the album ''

Días Nuevos ''Días Nuevos'' is the tenth studio album by Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco released by 11 y 6 Discos in 2011. It was his first album released with his new label. Commercial performance The album had great success throughout Latin America ...

'' by

Gian Marco Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver (born 17 August 1970) is a Peruvian musician and actor. He has won the Latin Grammy Award for the Best Singer-Songwriter Album three times. First in 2005 for his album ''Resucitar'', in 2011 for his album ''Dí ...

was the first to be awarded a record 5× Platinum certification and became the best-selling album of 2011 in Peru with 50,000 copies sold.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos Organizations established in 2001 Music organisations based in Peru Music industry associations 2001 establishments in Peru