RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of The Year Shortlist Announced

RT Choice Music Prize

In association with IMRO and IRMA

Irish Song of the Year 2022 Shortlist Announcement

Irish Artist of the Year 2022 Shortlist

Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2022 Shortlist

The shortlist for this year's RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2022, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show.

The shortlist is as follows (alphabetical order):

Biig Piig- Kerosene

CMAT - Nashville

Cian Ducrot - All For You

Dermot Kennedy - Something To Someone

Fontaines D.C. I Love You

Lea Heart - Happier

Moncrieff - Warm

SELL - No Love

Welshy All Day (feat Non )

Ye Vagabonds - Blue is the Eye

To vote for the RT Choice Music Prize, Irish Song of the Year 2022, 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 5th March.

The Irish Song of the Year 2022 will be announced by Tracy Clifford on the day of the live event on 9th March. Tracy will also host the event that night.

The show in Vicar St will feature performances from some of the album-shortlisted acts.

A special RT Choice Music Prize highlights programme will be broadcast on RT 2 television the following week presented by Bl thnaid Treacy.

Earlier in the week the shortlists for the new prizes were announced as follows:

Irish Artist of the Year 2022

CMAT

Fontaines D.C.

Dermot Kennedy

SELL

Talos

Irish Breakthrough Artist 2022

Belters Only

CMAT

Cian Ducrot

Lea Heart

SELL

Classic Irish Album

The winning album will be announced on Monday 6th March, 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 2022

http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/2022-irish-album-of-the-year/

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 9th March. The show will feature 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.

The 18th 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 listed on 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 Organisation (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (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.

Through its funding of the Music From Ireland programme, Culture Ireland's support of the RT Choice Music Prize will be directed towards shortlisted artists, as well as assisting the RT Choice Music Prize Conversations .

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