RT Choice Music Prize
In association with IMRO and IRMA
2 0 2 4 K E Y D A T E S
Irish Album of the Year 2023 Shortlist Announcement 8th January
Irish Song of the Year 2023 Shortlist Announcement 12th January
Live in Vicar St, Dublin with an Exclusive RT 2FM Broadcast 7th March
(Tickets on Sale Friday 17th Nov at 9am, priced 29.50 plus booking fees)
Returning Prizes
Irish Artist of the Year
Irish Breakthrough Artist
Classic Irish Album
The RT Choice Music Prize will be back in 2024 and continue its principal role in championing Irish music. The key dates for 2024's event were announced today on RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show.
The RT Choice Music Prize Event, one of the music industry's biggest nights, will be back in Vicar St on Thursday 7th March and celebrated in an exclusive live broadcast on RT 2FM, along with a TV-special on RT 2 later that month.
Three new prizes were introduced last year and will be awarded once again in March - Irish Artist of the Year, Irish Breakthrough Artist and Classic Irish Album. RT 2FM will broadcast a week of Choice Music Prize announcements from 8th -12th January, with All Irish All Day kicking things off on the station on Monday 8th January.
RT Choice Music Prize Key 2024 Dates include:
Irish Album of the Year 2023 shortlist Mon 8th January
Irish Artist of the Year shortlist Tues 9th January
Irish Breakthrough Artist - shortlist Wed 10th January
Classic Irish Album - further details Thurs 11th January (the winning album will be announced ahead of the live gig next year)
Irish Song of the Year 2023 shortlist Fri 12th January
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Conversations - Thursday 7th March, BIMM, Francis St
Live Event with an Exclusive RT 2FM Broadcast - Thursday 7th March, Vicar St
RAAP, Culture Ireland, FMC and Minding Creative Minds are also official project partners of the RT Choice Music Prize.
The Choice Music Prize website has published a list of Irish albums released to date in 2023. This list can be viewed via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/2023-album-list/ and updated here http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/album-submissions/
Last year's winners:
CMAT - If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (AOTY)
Moncrieff - Warm (SOTY)
Fontaines D.C. - Irish Artist of the Year
Cian Ducrot - Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinead O' Connor - Classic Irish Album
2FM is delighted to continue our partnership with the RT Choice Music Prize for the 8th year running. The RT Choice Music Prize is an important annual event in the wider Irish music landscape, and we're delighted to be able to continue to celebrate all that is great about Irish music and Irish artists. The inclusion of the Irish Artist of the Year', Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year' and Classic Irish Album' categories for the 2nd year running, coupled with the longstanding Irish Song of the Year' and the preeminent Irish Album of the Year' prizes allow us to more broadly represent the incredible past, present and exciting future of Irish music. 2FM will continue its support as the flagship partner station with content and promos across our platforms over the coming months, and this will be reflected more widely across the entire organisation as we get closer to the awards night. RT 2FM's Head of Music, Adam Fogarty
RT Choice Music Prize Conversations will take place at BIMM, Francis St, Dublin on Thursday 7th March. Conversations is an international music forum designed to encourage frank exchanges amongst both panellists and the audiences to challenge some of the biggest prevailing issues confronting artists and industry professionals.
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 prize only is chosen from a shortlist of ten albums by a panel of eleven Irish music media professionals and industry experts. The winning AOTY 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). All shortlisted acts will receive a specially commissioned award on the night.
IRMA are delighted to continue their association with the RT Choice Music Prize. The talent that exists within the Irish Music scene right now across many genres is very impressive and the RT Choice Music Prize continues to shine a light both domestically and internationally on quality Irish Music across a number of key award categories. IRMA is looking forward to the week of shortlist announcements beginning on January 8th and to the Live Event on March 7th Willie Kavanagh, Chairman of IRMA
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About the RT Choice Music Prize
The RT Choice Music Prize is organised by David Reid. Editor of RT Brainstorm, Jim Carroll is the chairman of the judging panel (for AOTY). 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). The full list of judges for the
Various prizes will be on the RT Choice Music Prize website from w/c 8th January. This is the 19th year of the prize. Past winners can be found via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/past-prizes/
The RT Choice Music Prize Live Event will be dedicated to the memories of Sin ad O'Connor and Brian Geraghty (RT ), both of whom passed away earlier this year. Sin ad was the first winner of the Classic Irish Album category and attended the Live Event earlier this year to accept the prize; Brian was central to securing RT 's support of the RT Choice Music Prize and, as a true advocate, remained closely involved.
Stay up-to-date with the latest RT Choice Music Prize news by following @choiceprize, @rte2fm, @rte and @
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