RTÉ Choice Music Prize announce 2024 key dates & tickets

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The RTE Choice Music Prize – Irish Album of the Year 2022 Winner CMAT has just been announced as the winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2022 for the album 'If My Wife New I’d Be Dead’. It was collected on behalf of CMAT by Irish Drag Queen Lavender. 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 jury panel of Irish music media professionals deliberated at length tonight and chose the album from the shortlist of 10 records released by Irish artists throughout 2022. The sold-out event in Vicar St, Dublin featured live performances by 5 of the album shortlisted acts. The event was hosted by 2FM’s Tracy Clifford and was broadcast live in a special broadcast on the station. TV highlights of the show can be seen on Thursday 16th March at 22.30 on RTÉ2 Information from Liza Geddes, Recode Publicity [email protected] No repro fee / photo: Graham Keogh http://www.choicemusicprize.ie http://2fm.rte.ie/ http://www.rte.ie/ http://twitter.com/choiceprize

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize has announced some key dates for next year’s award.

They are:

Monday January 8th – Irish Album of the Year 2023 shortlist

Tuesday January 9th – Irish Artist of the Year shortlist

Wed January 10th – Irish Breakthrough Artist – shortlist

Friday January 12th – Irish Song of the Year 2023 shortlist

Thursday January 11th – Classic Irish Album – further details – the winning album will be announced ahead of the live gig next year.

Thursday March 7th – Conversations @ BIMM, Francis St

Thursday March 7th – Live in Vicar St, Dublin with an Exclusive RTÉ2FM Broadcast

Tickets for the live Vicar Street event on Thursday March 7th go on sale this Friday November 17th at 9am, priced at €29.50 plus fees.

Three new prizes were introduced last year and will be awarded once again in March – Irish Artist of the Year, Irish Breakthrough Artist and Classic Irish Album. RTÉ 2FM will broadcast a week of Choice Music Prize announcements from 8^th -12^th January, with All Irish All Day kicking things off on the station on Monday 8^th January.

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The Choice Music Prize website has published a list of Irish albums released to date in 2023.

CMAT won the Irish Choice Album Of The Year Prize in 2023.

Sinéad O’Connor was also honoured with the inaugural Classic Irish album award for 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, which she accepted by dedicating the award to all refugees seeking asylum or refuge in Ireland.

Fontaines D.C. won Irish Artist of the Year 2022 award (for which I was a judge), Cian Ducrot won Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2022 and Moncrieff won the public vote Irish Song of the Year for ‘Warm’.

Niall Byrne

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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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