CMAT wins RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025

Celebrating 21 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 2025

CMAT- EURO-COUNTRY

RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2025

Amble - Schoolyard Days

Irish Artist of the Year 2025

CMAT

Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2025

AMBLE

Classic Irish Album

The T in by Horslips

CMAT has been announced as the winner of the RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025 for the album EURO-COUNTRY. Barry Devlin from Horslips 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.

CMAT 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 six of the nominated artists.

Amble were voted the RT Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year for their song Schoolyard Days . 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.

Amble also won Breakthrough Irish Artist of the Year presented by DJ Pr v of KNEECAP.

Irish Artist of the Year was won by CMAT presented by Beta Da Silva, 2FM

Louise Duffy, RT Radio 1 welcomed Barry Devlin, Eamon Carr and Jim Lockhart to the stage to collect Horslips' award for the Classic Irish Album for their 1973 LP The T in.

Album of The Year 2025 Shorlist

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

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Maria Somerville Luster

SPRINTS - All That Is Over

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, First Music Contact, 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). The full list of all the judges will be on the RT Choice Music Prize website. This is the twenty-first year of the prize. Past winners can be found via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/past-prizes/

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