Australian Music Prize

The Australian Music Prize (The AMP) is a yearly award for an Australian band or solo artist. It is $30,000. The AMP was formed in 2005.

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

The albums are judged on creative merit, not sales or popularity.[1]

The list of nominees is given in February. The winner is announced at an event in Sydney in March.

Past winners and short list nominees
Year Winner Album Shortlisted nominees & albums Other awards Ref(s)
2005 The Drones Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
  • Ben Lee — Awake Is the New Sleep
  • The Devastations — Coal
  • The Go-Betweens — Oceans Apart
  • The Mess Hall — Notes From A Ceiling
  • Tex, Don and Charlie — All is Forgiven
  • TZU — Smiling at Strangers
  • Wolfmother — Wolfmother
 [2]
2006 Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir
  • Bob Evans — Suburban Songbook
  • Gotye — Like Drawing Blood
  • Howling Bells — Howling Bells
  • Jackie Marshall — Fight n'Flight
  • Lisa Gerrard — The Silver Tree
  • Sarah Blasko — What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
  • The Drones — Gala Mill
  • The Grates — Gravity Won't Get You High
  • The first Red Bull Award for Outstanding Potential was awarded to Gotye.
 [3][4]
2007 The Mess Hall Devils Elbow
  • Architecture in Helsinki — Places Like This
  • bluejuice — Problems
  • Dardanelles — Mirror Mirror
  • The Devastations — Yes U
  • Lisa Miller — Morning in the Bowl of Night
  • Midnight Juggernauts — Dystopia
  • New Buffalo — Somewhere, Anywhere
  • Perry Keyes — Last Ghost Train Home
  • Urthboy — The Signal
  • The MySpace Public Vote Award was won by New Buffalo.
  • The Red Bull Award for Outstanding Potential was won by bluejuice.
 [5][6]
2008 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Primary Colours
  • The Presets — Apocalypso
  • Beaches — Beaches
  • The Drones — Havilah
  • Cut Copy — In Ghost Colours
  • C. W. Stoneking — Jungle Blues
  • Jack Ladder — Love Is Gone
  • Tom Cooney — Presque Vu
  • Ross McLennan — For the New World
  • The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Jack Ladder for Love is Gone.
 [1]
2009 Lisa Mitchell Wonder
  • Bertie Blackman — Secrets and Lies
  • Black Cab — Call Signs
  • Kid Sam — Kid Sam
  • Lucie Thorne — Black Across the Field
  • Oh Mercy — Privileged Woes
  • Sarah Blasko — As Day Follows Night
  • The Mess Hall — For The Birds
  • Urthboy — Spitshine
  • The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Oh Mercy for Privileged Woes.
2010 Cloud Control Bliss Release
  • The Holidays — Post Paradise
  • Dan Kelly — Dan Kelly's Dream
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring — Rush To Relax
  • Gareth Liddard — Strange Tourist
  • Pikelet — Stem
  • Richard In Your Mind — My Volcano
  • Sally Seltmann — Heart That's Pounding
  • Tame Impala — Innerspeaker
  • The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by The Holidays for Post Paradise.
2011 The Jezabels Prisoner
  • Abbe May — Design Desire
  • Adalita — Adalita
  • Boy & Bear — Moonfire
  • Gotye — Making Mirrors
  • Gurrumul — Rrakala
  • Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders — Hurtsville
  • Kimbra — Vows
  • The Middle East — I Want That You Are Always Happy
 [7]

References
  1. "Eddy Current Supresion Ring takes out 30K music prize". ABC News. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
  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.

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