
Celebrating 21 Years of the RT Choice Music Prize
RT Choice Music Prize
In association with IMRO and IRMA
Irish Album of the Year 2025 - Shortlist Announcement
A Week of Announcements on RT 2FM
Live in Vicar St, Dublin 5th March - with an exclusive RT 2FM broadcast Tickets on Sale Now
The shortlist for this year's RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show.
The shortlist is as follows:
Amble - Reverie
Bricknasty - Black's Law
Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY
Dove Ellis - Blizzard
Junior Brother - The End
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE
p t-pot - Warsaw 480km
Maria Somerville - Luster
SPRINTS - All That Is Over
As part of RT 's continued commitment to promoting Irish music, 2FM celebrates the announcement of the shortlist across its schedule today with All Irish All Day from 6am to Midnight. 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show will continue to broadcast a week of RT Choice Music Prize announcements and activities, with further details on all of prizes, including Irish Song of the Year.
Irish Artist of the Year - shortlist Tuesday 20th Jan
(winner announced 5th March at Vicar St)
Irish Breakthrough Artist - shortlist Wednesday 21st Jan
(winner announced 5th March at Vicar St)
Classic Irish Album - further details Thursday 22nd Jan
(winner announced ahead of the live event)
Irish Song of the Year 2025 - shortlist Friday 23rd Jan
(winner announced 5th March on 2FM daytime)
The public vote for Song of The Year will open on Friday 23rd January - Sunday 22nd February.
Dave Reid, Choice Music Prize co-founder, commented - The breadth and diversity of Irish music right now is astounding typified by recent Choice Music Prize winners Fontaines D.C., CMAT and more doing so well on the world stage. We look forward to honouring and celebrating the best in Irish music in partnership with RT through our week of shortlist announcements on the Tracy Clifford show beginning on January 19th and ending with the 21st edition of the RT Choice Music Prize Live event on Thursday March 5th at Vicar Street.
I love this time of year when we get to celebrate the very best in Irish music through this year's RT Choice Music Prize. The albums, the songs and the artists we produce in this country are world class. After another excellent year for Irish artists and their music, there is so much to look forward to right across the categories and as usual, some real gems to discover. Congratulations to all the nominees and I'm really looking forward to welcoming them, and our 2FM listeners to the live event in Vicar Street on Thursday 5th March for what is one of my favourite nights of the year. - RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford
The Irish Album of the Year 2025 will be announced live from Vicar St on RT 2FM in a special show 7-11pm on Thursday 5th March hosted by Beta Da Silva. The show will feature live performances from some of the shortlisted acts, further details on the line-up to be announced soon. Tickets are on sale now via https://www.ticketmaster.ie/choice-music-prize-tickets/artist/1541435
IRMA is very pleased to continue to support the Choice Music Prize which is now celebrating its 21st year. In 2025 the success of Irish music sales was unparalleled . It is an exciting time for Irish artists across numerous genres, as they soar to the top of the Irish charts and many other Charts around the globe .The Choice music Prize allows us to continue to shine a light on and to celebrate new and emerging talent in all genres. The Shortlists will be announced on this week and I would like to congratulate all the nominees and wish them the best of luck and success - Willie Kavanagh, IRMA
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The 21st 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.
#rtechoiceprize
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 new panel 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 19th January, and through the week as each shortlist is announced, along with some further details. This is the twenty first 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 @rteplayer 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/
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