Celebrating 20 Years of the RT Choice Music Prize
RT Choice Music Prize
In association with IMRO and IRMA
RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2024
Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew - The Spark
Irish Artist of the Year 2024
Jordan Adetunji
Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2024
KNEECAP
Classic Irish Album
Watermark by Enya
TV Highlights Programme Thursday 13th March at 22.35 on RT 2
Fontaines D.C. have been announced as the winner of the RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024 for their album Romance (Partisan Records). The 20th winners of the prize! Previous AOTY winner, Neil Hannon, made the announcement in Vicar St after the judging panel, made up of Irish music media professionals, and chaired by Jim Carroll, gathered this evening to decide on the winning album. Artist Roisin El Cherif accepted the award on behalf of the band, as they are currently on tour in Australia.
Fontaines D.C received a cheque for 10,000, a prize which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA), as well as a specially commissioned award.
The event, hosted by RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford, took place live in Vicar St and was broadcast live on 2FM with Beta Da Silva, included exclusive performances from eight of the nominated artists.
Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew were voted the RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year for their song The Spark . The song was selected from a shortlist of 10 songs by public vote (Ireland only), via the RT 2FM and Choice Music Prize websites, and was announced by Tracy Clifford on her show this afternoon.
KNEECAP won Breakthrough Irish Artist of the Year presented by 2FM's Beta Da Silva.
Irish Artist of the Year was won by Jordan Adetunji, presented by Gemma Bradley, BBC NI.
Julie Feeney, the first winner of the RT Choice Music Prize AOTY (2005), welcomed Priscilla Kotey (Warner Music MD) to the stage to collect Enya's award for the Classic Irish Album for her 1998 LP Watermark.
RT 2 will broadcast a one-hour TV programme of the RT Choice Music Prize, featuring performances from the eight acts and hosted by Tracy Clifford on Thursday 13th March at 22.35.
The 20th annual RT 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 list of judges is available via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie
The winning Album of the Year act will receive 10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by The Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). All shortlisted acts will receive a specially commissioned award.
RAAP, Culture Ireland, FMC, Minding Creative Minds, Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and Coimisi n na Me n are also official project partners of the RT Choice Music Prize.
ENDS
For further information please contact:
Choice Music Prize: Liza Geddes, Recode Publicity I lizageddes@gmail.com
RT : Neil O'Gorman | neil.ogorman@rte.ie
Notes to Editor:
The RT Choice Music Prize is organised by co-founder David Reid. Editor of RT Brainstorm & co-founder of the prize, Jim Carroll, is the chairman of the judging panel for Irish Album of the Year. It is unique in that the judging of the Irish Album of the Year focuses simply and solely on the music (as opposed to sales or airplay). A different group of judges has been put in place for each of the three categories. The full list of all the judges will be on the RT Choice Music Prize website starting 8th January, and through the week as each shortlist is announced, along with some further details. This is the twentieth year of the prize. Past winners can be found via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/past-prizes/
Stay up-to-date with the latest RT Choice Music Prize news by following @choiceprize, @rte2fm, @rte and @rte2 on Twitter and Facebook and @explorerte and @rte2fm on Instagram using #rtechoiceprize.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.choicemusicprize.ie
http://2fm.rte.ie/
http://www.rte.ie/
http://x.com/choiceprize
https://recodepublicity.com/
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Celebrating 20 Years of the RT Choice Music Prize
