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| Wins | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||
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This is a comprehensive listing of the awards and nominations received by Scottish singer KT Tunstall. In her breakthrough year, 2005, she received a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, which eventually went to Antony and the Johnsons; [1] and she won the Best Track of the year award from Q magazine for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree". [2]
In January 2006, she received three BRIT nominations—best British Live Act, best British Breakthrough Act, and best British Female Solo Artist—eventually gaining the award for best British Female Solo Artist, remarking that she wished to share it with fellow nominee Kate Bush. [3] Later the same month she was given a European Border Breakers Award, which recognises the top-selling European Union artists outside their home country. [4] Also in 2006, she won the Ivor Novello Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Suddenly I See", [5] along with Scottish Style Awards "Most Stylish Band or Musician". [6]
She gained more nominations in 2007 and 2008: a 2007 Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (the award went to Christina Aguilera for "Ain't No Other Man"), [7] and another BRIT nomination for British Female Solo Artist, the award she had won in 2006. [8]