Celebrating 20 Years of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize

RTÉ Choice Music Prize

In association with IMRO and IRMA

RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024

Fontaines D.C. – Romance

RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2024

Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew – “The Spark”

Irish Artist of the Year 2024

Jordan Adetunji

Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2024

KNEECAP

Classic Irish Album

Watermark by Enya

TV Highlights Programme – Thursday 13th March at 22.35 on RTÉ2

Fontaines D.C. have been announced as the winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024 for their album Romance (Partisan Records). The 20th winners of the prize! Previous AOTY winner, Neil Hannon, 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. Artist Roisin El Cherif accepted the award on behalf of the band, as they are currently on tour in Australia.

Fontaines D.C 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 RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford, took place live in Vicar St and was broadcast live on 2FM with Beta Da Silva, included exclusive performances from eight of the nominated artists.

Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew were voted the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year for their song “The Spark”. The song was selected from a shortlist of 10 songs by public vote (Ireland only), via the RTÉ 2FM and Choice Music Prize websites, and was announced by Tracy Clifford on her show this afternoon.

KNEECAP won Breakthrough Irish Artist of the Year presented by 2FM’s Beta Da Silva.

Irish Artist of the Year was won by Jordan Adetunji, presented by Gemma Bradley, BBC NI.

Julie Feeney, the first winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize AOTY (2005), welcomed Priscilla Kotey (Warner Music MD) to the stage to collect Enya’s award for the Classic Irish Album for her 1998 LP Watermark.

RTÉ2 will broadcast a one-hour TV programme of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize, featuring performances from the eight acts and hosted by Tracy Clifford on Thursday 13th March at 22.35.

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The 20th annual RTÉ 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, FMC, Minding Creative Minds, Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and Coimisiún na Meán are also official project partners of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize.

ENDS

For further information please contact:

Choice Music Prize: Liza Geddes, Recode Publicity I lizageddes@gmail.com

RTÉ: Neil O’Gorman | neil.ogorman@rte.ie

Notes to Editor:

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize is organised by co-founder David Reid. Editor of RTÉ 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). A different group of judges has been put in place for each of the three categories. The full list of all the judges will be on the RTÉ Choice Music Prize website starting 8th January, and through the week as each shortlist is announced, along with some further details. This is the twentieth year of the prize. Past winners can be found via http://www.choicemusicprize.ie/past-prizes/

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