Pan-European indie label bods IMPALA have announced details of the latest set of European Music Sales Awards, the previously reported new awards programme that recognises independent releases that shift major units across Europe. And it's extra helpings of mulled wine all round for the Domino Records team who score two double platinum awards (for sales in excess of one million) for Arctic Monkeys' 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' and Franz Ferdinand's 'Franz Ferdinand'.
Other big selling indie releases recognised in this batch of awards include:
Platinum winners (500,000+ sales)
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have Done It So Much Better (Domino) - UK.
Slipknot - Vol3: The Subliminal Verses (Roadrunner) - Netherlands
The Offspring - Smash (Epitaph) - Netherlands
Diamond winners (250,000+ sales):
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (Beggars/XL Recordings) - UK
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (Because Music) - France
Corneille - Les Marchands de Rêves (Wagram Music France) - France
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer (Imperial Recordings/Peacefrog Records) - Sweden
Nickelback - All the Right Reasons (Roadrunner) - Netherlands
Pink Martini - Sympathique (Naive) - France
Pink Martini - Hand On Little Tomato (Naive) - France
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Beggars/XL Recordings) - UK
Commenting on the awards, IMPALA Chairman and Beggars boss Martin Mills told CMU: "The independents are key to discovering new talent. The IMPALA awards are simply a way of acknowledging that and celebrating real diversity in action. Our artists have unique talent and for the first time we have a tool that really helps us to increase pan-European awareness at different stages in their career and bring them to a much wider audience".