Australian Music Prize

The Australian Music Prize (The AMP) is a yearly award for an Australian band or solo artist. It is $30,000. The AMP was formed in 2005.

Awarded for	Best Australian album

The albums are judged on creative merit, not sales or popularity.

The list of nominees is given in February. The winner is announced at an event in Sydney in March.

Past winners and short list nominees

Year	Winner	Album	Shortlisted nominees & albums	Other awards	Ref(s)
2005	The Drones	Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By	Ben Lee — Awake Is the New Sleep The Devastations — Coal The Go-Betweens — Oceans Apart The Mess Hall — Notes From A Ceiling Tex, Don and Charlie — All is Forgiven TZU — Smiling at Strangers Wolfmother — Wolfmother
2006	Augie March	Moo, You Bloody Choir	Bob Evans — Suburban Songbook Gotye — Like Drawing Blood Howling Bells — Howling Bells Jackie Marshall — Fight n'Flight Lisa Gerrard — The Silver Tree Sarah Blasko — What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have The Drones — Gala Mill The Grates — Gravity Won't Get You High	The first Red Bull Award for Outstanding Potential was awarded to Gotye.
2007	The Mess Hall	Devils Elbow	Architecture in Helsinki — Places Like This bluejuice — Problems Dardanelles — Mirror Mirror The Devastations — Yes U Lisa Miller — Morning in the Bowl of Night Midnight Juggernauts — Dystopia New Buffalo — Somewhere, Anywhere Perry Keyes — Last Ghost Train Home Urthboy — The Signal	The MySpace Public Vote Award was won by New Buffalo. The Red Bull Award for Outstanding Potential was won by bluejuice.
2008	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	Primary Colours	The Presets — Apocalypso Beaches — Beaches The Drones — Havilah Cut Copy — In Ghost Colours C. W. Stoneking — Jungle Blues Jack Ladder — Love Is Gone Tom Cooney — Presque Vu Ross McLennan — For the New World	The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Jack Ladder for Love is Gone.
2009	Lisa Mitchell	Wonder	Bertie Blackman — Secrets and Lies Black Cab — Call Signs Kid Sam — Kid Sam Lucie Thorne — Black Across the Field Oh Mercy — Privileged Woes Sarah Blasko — As Day Follows Night The Mess Hall — For The Birds Urthboy — Spitshine	The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by Oh Mercy for Privileged Woes.
2010	Cloud Control	Bliss Release	The Holidays — Post Paradise Dan Kelly — Dan Kelly's Dream Eddy Current Suppression Ring — Rush To Relax Gareth Liddard — Strange Tourist Pikelet — Stem Richard In Your Mind — My Volcano Sally Seltmann — Heart That's Pounding Tame Impala — Innerspeaker	The Red Bull Award for Best Debut Album was won by The Holidays for Post Paradise.
2011	The Jezabels	Prisoner	Abbe May — Design Desire Adalita — Adalita Boy & Bear — Moonfire Gotye — Making Mirrors Gurrumul — Rrakala Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders — Hurtsville Kimbra — Vows The Middle East — I Want That You Are Always Happy

Related pages

• Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
• Prix Constantin (France)
• Choice Music Prize (Ireland)
• Mercury Prize (United Kingdom)
• Shortlist Music Prize (United States)

Other websites

• AMP Website