Kingston, Jamaica - It's looking to be another stellar year for one of Jamaica's premiere sounds, Coppershot Disco.

2012 has started off with a bang for the established sound, who copped their third Youth View Award (YVA) on Saturday night at the National Indoor Sports Arena. The sound beat out Renaissance Disco and stalwarts Stone Love, to cop 'Sound of the Year 2011.'

This is the sound's second consecutive win at the YVA's, having won in 2010, and first won in 2008. Foundation Coppershot member Matthew Gray was pleased with the win as he said; "it feels good to have won at the YVAs for the third time, but the first time having won back-to-back.

It shows that people are still rolling with us and showing us that we are still pleasing them and we plan to continue to bring new innovations and bring the vibes to the parties, no matter what."

They were also the runner up in The Jamaica Star news paper peoples choice award in which they were the only sound system nominated in a selector heavy category.

The sound has been busy at events as well as on the producing scene having released the popular 'TGIF' rhythm last year and singles such as Cham's Drop It (Like You Doing It). On the business side of things they launched their Coppershot merchandise in September of last year.

The merchandise includes a line of logo tees and Coppershot snap back caps. "We've restocked the merchandise twice already and have gotten a great response locally as well as from our overseas fans," Gray said.

In April the sound will be going on a European tour as part of their '2012 End of the World Tour.' Gray explained, "We're going to a lot of new places we haven't been before and revisiting a lot of places we have been rocking over the last couple of years".

Locations also scheduled for the tour are Bermuda, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, Africa, Japan, England, among others. CopperShaun and Jigzag has also been representing alongside superstar Sean Paul on the tour for his upcoming album 'Tomahawk Technique.'