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

YearWinnerAlbumShortlisted nominees & albumsOther awardsRef(s)2005The 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 2006Augie 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. 2007The 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. 2008Eddy 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.2009Lisa MitchellWonder 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.2010Cloud ControlBliss 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.2011The JezabelsPrisoner 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)

References

Other websites
 AMP Website

Category:Australian music
Category:Music awards