Slávik () was a Slovak music poll and award established by the company Forza—which organizes the
Miss Slovakia beauty pageant—in 1998, as a successor to
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''ÄŒesko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...
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Zlatý slavÃk
Zlatý slavÃk () was a Czechoslovak music poll and award of the same name established by the magazine '' Mladý svÄ›t'' in 1962, and broadcast on television. It was held until 1991, when ÄŒeský slavÃk took its place. After the dissolution of ...
, which ran from 1962 until 1991.
The annual event was broadcast live through the television channels
MarkÃza
MarkÃza (also known as TelevÃzia MarkÃza) is a Slovak television channel launched on August 31, 1996. The channel was founded by a later politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of the Central European Media Enterprises (CME). It also opera ...
from 1998 to 2010 and
TV JOJ from 2011 until 2012. Forza dissolved the event a year later due to declining interest. In the poll's previous years, victory had been conditional on receiving at least 34,000 votes, which in the final years had dropped to 5,000.
Czechia, formerly part of Czechoslovakia, has its own music award, known as
ÄŒeský slavÃk
ÄŒeský slavÃk () is an award meant to recognize outstanding achievement and annual popularity in the Czech music industry. It was established in 1996 as the successor to the Zlatý slavÃk awards, which were established in 1962 in Czechoslova ...
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Winners
Major awards
Leaders
With eight awards within the major categories,
Elán was the most successful band in the poll's history, followed by Desmod and
Zuzana Smatanová
Zuzana Smatanová (born 14 June 1984 Súľov-Hradná) is a Slovaks, Slovak pop-rock singer. She sings in Slovak language, Slovak and in English, writing her own lyrics and music. She plays the piano, the flute and the guitar.
In 1998 she was acc ...
, who received a total of seven and six gold trophies, respectively.
Other categories
References
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Culture of Slovakia
Zlatý slavÃk