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RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2024 Shortlist Announcement

10/01/2025

RT Choice Music Prize

In association with IMRO and IRMA

Irish Song of the Year 2024 Shortlist Announcement

Irish Artist of the Year 2024 - Shortlist

Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2024 Shortlist

The shortlist for this year's RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2024, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show.

The shortlist is as follows (alphabetical order):

Chubby Cat - Quiet

Cian Ducrot - Here It is

CMAT - Aw, Shoot

Fontaines D.C. Starburster

Hozier Too Sweet

Jazzy - Make Up

Jordan Adetunji Kehlani

Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew - The Spark

Niamh Regan Music

Picture This - Act of Innocence

To vote for the RT Choice Music Prize, Irish Song of the Year 2024, visit www.rte.ie/2fm.

Votes are limited to one per person per day. Only votes cast in the Republic of Ireland will be counted. Voting closes at midnight on Sunday 16th February.

The winning song will be announced by Tracy Clifford on 6th March on a special Song of the Year radio show on 2FM that afternoon ahead of the live event.

A special RT Choice Music Prize highlights programme will be broadcast on RT 2 television the following week.

Earlier this week the shortlists for further prizes were announced as follows:

Irish Artist of the Year 2024

Jordan Adetunji

CMAT

Fontaines D.C.

Jazzy

KNEECAP

Irish Breakthrough Artist 2024

Jordan Adetunji

Biig Piig

Kingfishr

KNEECAP

Sprints

Classic Irish Album

The winning album will be announced in the week or two ahead of live event, while the prize will be presented along with the other prizes at the RT Choice Music Prize live event in Vicar Street.

Irish Album of the Year 2024

A Lazarus Soul No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens

Curtisy What Was The Question

Fontaines D.C. Romance

Orla Gartland Everybody Needs a Hero

KNEECAP Fine Art

NewDad MADRA

Niamh Regan Come As You Are

R is Mo L an

Silverbacks Easy Being a Winner

SPRINTS Letter To Self

The winners of the Irish Album of the Year, Irish Artist of the Year and Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year will all be announced at the live event from Vicar St on RT 2FM in a special show 7-11pm on Thursday 6th March. The show will feature performances from many of the album-shortlisted acts, further details on the line-up to be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets are on sale now.

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.

#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 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://twitter.com/choiceprize
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