Shortlist announced for RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2023

The shortlist for this year's RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2023, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced on RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show.

The shortlist is as follows (alphabetical order):

Chubby Cat – Big Dog Barking
CMAT – Stay For Something
Cian Ducrot – Heaven
John Francis Flynn – Mole In The Ground
Niall Horan – Heaven
Hozier – Eat Your Young
Jazzy – Giving Me
Kojaque - Woof
Lankum –Go Dig My Grave
Soda Blonde – Bad Machine

Votes are limited to one per person per day. Only votes cast in the Republic of Ireland will be counted.

Voting closes at midnight on Sunday February, 25. 

The winning song will be announced by Tracy Clifford on March 7 on a special Song of the Year radio show on 2FM that afternoon ahead of the live event.

A special RTÉ Choice Music Prize highlights programme will be broadcast on RTÉ2 television the following week.

Earlier this week the shortlists for further prizes were announced as follows:

Irish Artist of the Year 2023:

CMAT
Cian Ducrot
Hozier
Jazzy
Lankum

Irish Breakthrough Artist 2023:

49th & Main
John Francis Flynn
Jazzy
ØXN
The Scratch
Classic Irish Album

The winning album will be announced in the week or two ahead of live event, while the prize will be presented along with the other prizes at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize live event in Vicar Street.

The winners of the Irish Album of the Year, Irish Artist of the Year and Irish Breakthrough Artist of the Year will all be announced at the live event from Vicar St on RTÉ 2FM in a special show 7-11pm on Thursday, March 7.

The show will feature performances from many of the album-shortlisted acts, further details on the line-up to be announced soon.

The 19th 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 winning Album of the Year act will receive €10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by The Irish Music Rights Organisation (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 and Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet are also official project partners of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize.

Through its funding of the Music From Ireland programme, Culture Ireland’s support of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize will be directed towards shortlisted artists, as well as assisting the RTÉ Choice Music Prize “Conversations”.

Stay up-to-date with the latest RTÉ Choice Music Prize news by following @choiceprize, @rte2fm, @rte and @rte2 on X and Facebook and @explorerte and @rte2fm on Instagram using #rtechoiceprize.

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