The nominees for the Meteor Choice Music Prize’s Irish Song of the Year have been revealed today.
The 10 songs are
The Coronas – ‘All The Others’
Delorentos – ‘Show Me Love’
Hozier – ‘From Eden’
Kodaline – ‘One Day’
Kormac – ‘Wake Up’
Little Hours – ‘It’s Still Love’
The Minutes – ‘Cherry Bomb’
Sinead O’Connor – ‘Take Me To Church’
The Riptide Movement – ‘All Works Out’ (pictured)
The Script – ‘Superheroes’
The shortlist is compiled by combining selected songs from the Meteor Choice Music Prize Judging Panel, Today FM, and the Irish Airplay charts as compiled by Radio Monitor.
You can vote for your favourite at meteor.ie/choice but before you make your decision you can hear all the songs in the Spotify playlist below:
The overall winner will be revealed at the 10th Meteor Choice Music Prize Live Event at Vicar Street on Thursday, 5th March.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
why in fucking gods name would i listen to that, in fairness.