Australian Music Prize

Australian Music Prize
Australian Music Prize
Awarded for	Best Australian album
Country	Australia
First awarded	2005
Website	www.australianmusicprize.com.au

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.

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[change | change source]

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]

Related pages[change | change source]

Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
Prix Constantin (France)
Choice Music Prize (Ireland)
Mercury Prize (United Kingdom)
Shortlist Music Prize (United States)

References[change | change source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Eddy Current Supresion Ring takes out 30K music prize". ABC News. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
↑ "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.
↑ "Augie March take out AMP award". AdelaideNow. The Advertiser. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009.^{[dead link]}
↑ "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.
↑ "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.
↑ "The Mess Hall elbow way to music prize". News.com.au. 13 March 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2009.^{[dead link]}
↑ "The Jezabels take out Australian Music Prize". ABC News Online. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

Other websites[change | change source]

AMP Website

[Eddy-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "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.^{[dead link]}

[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.^{[dead link]}

[7] "The Jezabels take out Australian Music Prize". ABC News Online. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

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