CMAT wins RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025
Celebrating 21 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 2025
CMAT– EURO-COUNTRY
RTÉ 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 Táin by Horslips
CMAT has been announced as the winner of the RTÉ 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 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 six of the nominated artists.
Amble were voted the RTÉ 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 RTÉ 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 Próví of KNEECAP.
Irish Artist of the Year was won by CMAT presented by Beta Da Silva, 2FM
Louise Duffy, RTÉ 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 Táin.
Album of The Year 2025 Shorlist
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Amble – Reverie
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Bricknasty – Black’s Law
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Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time
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CMAT – EURO-COUNTRY
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Dove Ellis – Blizzard
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Junior Brother – The End
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Just Mustard – WE WERE JUST HERE
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pôt-pot – Warsaw 480km
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Maria Somerville – Luster
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SPRINTS – All That Is Over
The 21st 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, First Music Contact, 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). The full list of all the judges will be on the RTÉ 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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