The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2022, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show. Read more
Irish Album of the Year 2022 Shortlist Announcement – 9th January
Irish Song of the Year 2022 Shortlist Announcement – 13th January-
Live in Vicar St, Dublin with an Exclusive RTÉ2FM Broadcast – 9th March
(Tickets on Sale Friday 25th Nov, priced €29.50 plus booking fees)
I N T R O D U C I N G T H R E E N E W P R I Z E S
Irish Artist of the Year
Irish Breakthrough Artist
Classic Irish Album
For Those I Love win the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021
Dermot Kennedy takes home the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2021
TV Highlights Programme to Broadcast on Sunday 13th March at 11pm
For Those I Love has been announced as the winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021 for the album For Those I Love (September Recordings). Read more
Irish Song of the Year 2021 – Shortlist Announcement
The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2021, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show.
The shortlist is as follows: Read more
Vicar Street, Dublin – Thursday 3rd March
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The line-up for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize live event, in association with IMRO & IRMA, has just been announced by Tracy Clifford on 2FM.
Seven of the ten acts so far have confirmed to perform at the live event in Vicar St in March: Read more
The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show by Jim Carroll, chairman of the judging panel.
The shortlist is as follows: Read more
Photo: Graham Keogh
Denise Chaila has been announced as the winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020 for the album Go Bravely (narolane). Adam Clayton made the announcement live after the judging panel, made up of Irish music media professionals and chaired by Jim Carroll, met up over Zoom to decide on the winning album. Read more
The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2020, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show.
The shortlist is as follows: Read more
The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show by Jim Carroll, chairman of the judging panel.
The shortlist is as follows: Read more
In association with IMRO and IRMA
2 0 2 1 D A T E S
Irish Album of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement – 6th January
Irish Song of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement – 27th January
Choice Conversations – Tuesday 2nd March
Exclusive RTÉ Live Broadcast – Thursday 4th March
The RTÉ Choice Music Prize will return in 2021 and continue its principal role in championing Irish music. Key dates for 2021’s event were announced today on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show with previous RTÉ Choice Music Prize nominee, Sorcha Richardson.
The RTÉ Choice Music Prize Event will be celebrated in an exclusive live broadcast on RTÉ 2FM on Thursday 4th March, along with a TV-special on RTÉ2. Further details will be announced once final decisions have been made.
Other RTÉ Choice Music Prize key dates include:
Irish Album of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement – Wednesday 6th January 2021
Irish Song of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement – Wednesday 27th January 2021
The Irish Album and Song of the Year 2020 will be announced on Thursday 4th March live on RTÉ 2FM.
Adrian Lynch, Director Audiences, Channels and Marketing at RTÉ, said: “Through our successful partnership with the Choice Music Prize over the past three years RTÉ has combined our television, radio and online platforms to great effect to promote nominated artists and support Irish music talent. This support is more important now than ever and in a very difficult year for Irish artists, it is essential that, through this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize, we continue to do our part to celebrate the music and the artists who have continued to reach great heights in 2020.”
Dan Healy, Head of RTÉ 2FM, said: “Despite unprecedented challenges for the music industry, Irish artists, emerging and established, have produced some incredible, inspiring music this year. Giving airplay to this great Irish talent is at the very core of what we do at 2FM and our RTÉ Choice Music Prize All-Irish music days, which celebrate Irish music and artists, have become one of the most popular features on the station. Everyone in 2FM is looking forward to again getting right behind the RTÉ Choice Music Prize and celebrating Irish artists and their music.”
RTÉ Choice Music Prize ‘Conversations’ will return on Tuesday 2nd March 2021. ‘Conversations’ is an international music forum designed to encourage frank exchanges amongst panelists and with the audiences to challenge and elucidate the biggest prevailing issues confronting artists and industry professionals. This year’s event will be fully online so you can join us from anywhere in the world. Full details available here.
RTÉ Choice Music Prize will once again celebrate the best in Irish recorded music. The Prize has become one of the music-industry highlights of the year since its inception in 2005. The Irish Album of the Year award is chosen from a shortlist of ten albums by a panel of eleven Irish music media professionals and industry experts.
The winning act will receive €10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA).
“RTÉ Choice Music Prize recognises and champions some of our finest songwriters and IMRO is delighted to continue its longstanding association with this prestigious music prize. Irish music continues to push new boundaries and this Prize provides a great platform for new music to resonate so strongly with audiences in Ireland and important overseas markets” – Keith Johnson, Director of Marketing & Membership IMRO.
“IRMA is once again delighted to support the RTE Choice Music Prize, particularly in this difficult period affecting the music industry. An event such as the RTE Choice Music Prize shines a light on great new Irish music and serves as a beacon of hope for artists who have had their livelihoods seriously disrupted by the pandemic. The RTE Choice Music Prize rewards artists who have continued to create new and innovative recordings and who have found a way to rise above the difficulties which they face at this time”. – Willie Kavanagh, Chairman of IRMA
All shortlisted acts will receive a specially commissioned award.
RAAP, Culture Ireland, FMC and Minding Creative Minds are also official project partners of the RTE Choice Music Prize.
