Australian Music Prize

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Australian Music Prize
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Awarded forBest Australian album
Country Australia
First awarded2005
Website www.australianmusicprize.com.au

The Australian Music Prize (often shortened to the AMP) is an annual award of $50,000 ($30,000 from 2005 to 2023) given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. The award was made by Australian Music Prize Ltd, a sole-purpose entity sponsored by a variety of music industry figures and record companies. The AMP was established in 2005.

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Unlike the more mainstream ARIA Music Awards, the AMP aims to encourage Australian music of excellence – the prize's stated aim is 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". In this sense, the AMP is broadly comparable to the UK's Mercury Music Prize.

The prize typically launches at the start of October each year and accepts entries (must be new Australian artist albums commercially released in that year) in October and November. A shortlist is announced the following February and then a winner at an event in Sydney in March.

In 2023, the nominations were revealed in late November with the award announcement scheduled for early December.

Past winners and short list nominees

YearWinnerShortlisted nomineesRef(s)
2005

(1st)

 The Drones – Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By [1]
2006

(2nd)

 Augie March – Moo, You Bloody Choir [2] [3]
2007

(3rd)

 The Mess Hall – Devils Elbow [4] [5]
2008

(4th)

 Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours [6]
2009

(5th)

 Lisa Mitchell – Wonder
2010

(6th)

 Cloud Control – Bliss Release
2011

(7th)

 The Jezabels – Prisoner [7]
2012

(8th)

 Hermitude – HyperParadise
2013

(9th)

 Big Scary – Not Art [8]
2014

(10th)

 Remi – Raw x Infinity [9]
2015

(11th)

 Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit [10]
2016

(12th)

 A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia [11]
2017

(13th)

 Sampa the Great – Birds and the BEE9 [12]

[13]

2018

(14th)

 Gurrumul – Djarimirri [14] [15]
2019

(15th)

 Sampa the Great – The Return [16] [17]
2020

(16th)

 The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You [18] [19]
2021

(17th)

 Genesis Owusu – Smiling with No Teeth [20] [21]
2022

(18th)

 King Stingray – King Stingray [22] [23]
2023

(19th)

 RVG – Brain Worms [24] [25]
2024

(20th)

 Kankawa Nagarra – Wirlmarni [26] [27]

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