Quick facts for kids Australian Music Prize |
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Country |
Australia |
First awarded |
2005 |
The Australian Music Prize (often called the AMP) is a special award given each year in Australia. It gives $30,000 to an Australian band or solo artist. This money is for the best album they released during that year. The award was started in 2005 by a group of people and music companies.
The AMP is different from other big awards like the ARIA Music Awards. Its main goal is to support amazing Australian music. The prize wants to "financially reward and increase exposure for an Australian artist (or group of artists) who have produced and commercially released what specially appointed judges vote is the best contemporary music album in any one calendar year." This means it helps artists get money and become more famous. It's a bit like the Mercury Music Prize in the UK.
The award usually starts accepting entries in October and November each year. Artists can submit their new albums released that year. A list of the best albums, called a shortlist, is announced in February. Then, the winner is revealed at an event in Sydney in March. In 2023, the nominations were announced in late November, and the winner was chosen in early December.
Winners and Nominees Over the Years
This table shows all the amazing artists who have won the Australian Music Prize. It also lists the other talented musicians who were nominated for the award each year.
Year |
Winner |
Shortlisted nominees |
Ref(s) |
2005
(1st)
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The Drones – Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By |
- Ben Lee – Awake Is the New Sleep
- The Devastations – Coal
- The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart
- The Mess Hall – Notes From A Ceiling
- Tex, Don and Charlie – All is Forgiven
- TZU – Smiling at Strangers
- Wolfmother – Wolfmother
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2006
(2nd)
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Augie March – Moo, You Bloody Choir |
- Bob Evans – Suburban Songbook
- Gotye – Like Drawing Blood
- Howling Bells – Howling Bells
- Jackie Marshall – Fight n'Flight
- Lisa Gerrard – The Silver Tree
- Sarah Blasko – What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
- The Drones – Gala Mill
- The Grates – Gravity Won't Get You High
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2007
(3rd)
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The Mess Hall – Devils Elbow |
- Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This
- bluejuice – Problems
- Dardanelles – Mirror Mirror
- The Devastations – Yes U
- Lisa Miller – Morning in the Bowl of Night
- Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia
- New Buffalo – Somewhere, Anywhere
- Perry Keyes – Last Ghost Train Home
- Urthboy – The Signal
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2008
(4th)
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours |
- The Presets – Apocalypso
- Beaches – Beaches
- The Drones – Havilah
- Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
- C. W. Stoneking – Jungle Blues
- Jack Ladder – Love Is Gone
- Tom Cooney – Presque Vu
- Ross McLennan – For the New World
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2009
(5th)
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Lisa Mitchell – Wonder |
- Bertie Blackman – Secrets and Lies
- Black Cab – Call Signs
- Kid Sam – Kid Sam
- Lucie Thorne – Black Across the Field
- Oh Mercy – Privileged Woes
- Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
- The Mess Hall – For The Birds
- Urthboy – Spitshine
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2010
(6th)
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Cloud Control – Bliss Release |
- The Holidays – Post Paradise
- Dan Kelly – Dan Kelly's Dream
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Rush To Relax
- Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist
- Pikelet – Stem
- Richard in Your Mind – My Volcano
- Sally Seltmann – Heart That's Pounding
- Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
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2011
(7th)
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The Jezabels – Prisoner |
- Abbe May – Design Desire
- Adalita – Adalita
- Boy & Bear – Moonfire
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Gurrumul – Rrakala
- Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders – Hurtsville
- Kimbra – Vows
- The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
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2012
(8th)
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Hermitude – HyperParadise |
- Flume – Flume
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- The Presets – Pacifica
- Grand Salvo – Slay Me in My Sleep
- Jess Ribeiro & the Bone Collectors – My Little River
- Liz Stringer – Warm in the Darkness
- Daily Meds – Happy Daze
- Urthboy – Smokey's Haunt
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2013
(9th)
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Big Scary – Not Art |
- Jen Cloher – In Blood Memory
- Dialectrix – The Cold Light of Day
- Kirin J. Callinan – Embracism
- Beaches – She Beats
- Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
- Jagwar Ma – Howlin'
- Cloud Control – Dream Cave
- Jimblah – Phoenix
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2014
(10th)
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Remi – Raw x Infinity |
- #1 Dads – About Face
- Blank Realm – Grassed Inn
- C. W. Stoneking – Gon' Boogaloo
- Caitlin Park – The Sleeper
- Chet Faker – Built on Glass
- Laura Jean – Laura Jean
- The Peep Tempel – Tales
- Total Control – Typical System
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2015
(11th)
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Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit |
- Dan Kelly – Leisure
- Dick Diver – Melbourne, Florida
- Gold Class – It's
- Jess Ribeiro – Kill It Yourself
- Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle
- My Disco – Severe
- Royal Headache – High
- Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return
- Tame Impala – Currents
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2016
(12th)
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A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia |
- The Avalanches – Wildflower
- Big Scary – Animal
- Camp Cope – Camp Cope
- D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
- Olympia – Self Talk
- The Peep Tempel – Joy
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2017
(13th)
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Sampa the Great – Birds and the BEE9 |
- Beaches – Second of Spring
- Darcy Baylis – Intimacy & Isolation
- HTMLflowers – Chrome Halo
- Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher
- Jordan Rakei – Wallflower
- Liars – TFCF
- Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine
- The Vampires – The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke
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2018
(14th)
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Gurrumul – Djarimirri |
- Abbe May – Fruit
- Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
- Grand Salvo – Sea Glass
- Laura Jean – Devotion
- The Presets – Hi Viz
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
- Sam Anning – Across A Field As Vast As One
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2019
(15th)
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Sampa the Great – The Return |
- Ainslie Wills – All You Have Is All You Need
- Amyl and the Sniffers – Amyl and the Sniffers
- Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended
- Julia Jacklin – Crushing
- Methyl Ethel – Triage
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
- Sleep D – Rebel Force
- Thelma Plum – Better in Blak
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2020
(16th)
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The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You |
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2021
(17th)
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Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth |
- Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me
- Baker Boy – Gela
- Emma Donovan & the Putbacks – Under These Streets
- Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000
- Martha Marlow – Medicine Man
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
- Odette – Herald
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2022
(18th)
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King Stingray – King Stingray |
- 1300 – Foreign Language
- Body Type – Everything Is Dangerous but Nothing's Surprising
- Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
- Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure
- Laura Jean – Amateurs
- Party Dozen – The Real Work
- Sampa The Great – As Above, So Below
- Tasman Keith – A Colour Undone
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2023
(19th)
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RVG – Brain Worms |
- Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again
- Floodlights – Painting of My Time
- Genesis Owusu – Struggler
- Gretta Ray – Positive Spin
- Jen Cloher – I Am the River, the River Is Me
- Mo'Ju – Oro, Plata, Mata
- Polaris – Fatalism
- Troye Sivan – Something to Give Each Other
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Related Music Awards
Here are some other music awards from different parts of the world that are similar to the Australian Music Prize:
- Choice Music Prize (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
- Mercury Prize (United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland)
- Nordic Music Prize (Nordic countries)
- Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
- Prix Constantin (France)
- Shortlist Music Prize (United States)