Australian Music Prize

The Australian Music Prize (the AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. The award made by Australian Music Prize Ltd, a sole-purpose entity sponsored by a variety of music industry figures and record companies. The AMP was established in 2005.

Australian Music Prize
2008 AMP logo
Awarded forBest Australian album
CountryAustralia
First awarded2005
Websitewww.australianmusicprize.com.au

Unlike the more mainstream ARIA music awards, The AMP aims to encourage Australian music of excellence – the prize's stated aim is to "financially reward and increase exposure for an Australian artist (or group of artists) who have produced and commercially released what specially appointed judges vote is the best contemporary music album in any one calendar year". In this sense, the AMP is broadly comparable to the UK's Mercury Music Prize.

2008's prize director Tracey Grimson says having a number one album counts for very little in the judging.

The thing about the Australian Music Prize is that it's genuinely about rewarding creative excellence. The albums are all listened to and they're all judged on creative merit. It doesn't matter if someone has been number one or never heard of before, they have an equal chance of making it through.

— Tracey Grimson, 20 March 2009[1]

The prize typically launches at the start of October each year and accepts entries (must be new Australian artist albums commercially released in that year) in October and November. A short list is announced the following February and then a winner at an event in Sydney in March.

Past winners and short list nominees
Year Winner Shortlisted nominees & albums Ref(s)
2005 The Drones - Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By [2]
2006 Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir [3][4]
2007 The Mess Hall - Devils Elbow [5][6]
2008 Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours [1]
2009 Lisa Mitchell - Wonder
2010 Cloud Control - Bliss Release
2011 The Jezabels - Prisoner [7]
2012 Hermitude - HyperParadise
2013 Big Scary - Not Art
2014 REMI - Raw X Infinity [8]
2015 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit [9]
2016 A.B. Original - Reclaim Australia [10]
2017 Sampa the Great - Birds and the BEE9 [11]

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2018 Gurrumul - Djarimirri [13][14]
2019 Sampa the Great - The Return [15][16]
2020 TBA - March 2021 [17]

See also

References
  1. "Eddy Current Supresion Ring takes out 30K music prize". ABC News. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  2. "The Drones Take Out The Inaugural AMP (Australian Music Prize)". FasterLouder.com.au. 9 March 2006. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  3. "Augie March take out AMP award". AdelaideNow. The Advertiser. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  4. "PCCA congratulates Augie March" (PDF). Phonographic Performance Company of Australia. 8 March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  5. "The Mess Hall win the Australian Music Prize". TheWest.com.au. The West Australian. 13 March 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  6. "The Mess Hall elbow way to music prize". News.com.au. 13 March 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  7. "The Jezabels take out Australian Music Prize". ABC News Online. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  8. "Winners & Shortlists". australian music prize. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  9. "Courtney Barnett Has Taken Out The Australian Music Prize For 2015 – Music Feeds". 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  10. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/ab-original-win-the-australian-music-prize-with-a-timely-angry-protest-album-20170309-guuolt.html Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2017
  11. http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2018/03/09/sampa-the-great-scores-$30,000-aus-music-prize/
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "gurrumul-wins-australian-music-prize". 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  15. "15th Australian Music Prize". The Music Network. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  16. "AMP winner Sampa The Great creates history". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  17. "2020 Australian Music Prize Finalists". scenestr. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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