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.

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

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|class="unsortable"|Winner|class="unsortable"|Album|class="unsortable"|Shortlisted nominees & albums|class="unsortable"|Other awards|class="unsortable"|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_||||||||
|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.|||||||
|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.|||||||
|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_.|||||||
|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_||||||||

## Related pages

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

## Other websites

- AMP Website

## Infobox (award)

- **name**: Australian Music Prize
- **caption**: 2008 AMP logo
- **awarded for**: Best Australian album
- **country**: Australia
- **year**: 2005