Welsh Music Prize

The Welsh Music Prize is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from Wales, as voted for by members of the music industry. It was founded by music promoter John Rostron and radio presenter Huw Stephens in 2011.[1][2] It was originally scheduled to take place alongside Sŵn music festival in Cardiff but now takes place later in the year.[3]

Winners and shortlisted nominees

Year	Winner	Shortlisted nominees
2010–11	Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo [4]	Al Lewis – In the Wake Colorama – Box Lleuwen Steffan – Tân Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man Stagga – The Warm Air Room Sweet Baboo – I'm a Dancer/Songs About Sleepin' The Blackout – Hope The Gentle Good – Tethered for the Storm The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar Y Niwl – Y Niwl Funeral for a Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon
2011–12	Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense [5]	Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope Cate Le Bon – Cyrk Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog – Draw Dros Y Mynydd Exit International – Black Junk Huw M – Gathering Dusk Islet – Illuminated People Jodie Marie – Mountain Echo Kids in Glass Houses – In Gold Blood Kutosis – Fanatical Love Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness Truckers of Husk – Accelerated Learning
2012–13	Georgia Ruth – Week of Pines	Euros Childs – Summer Special Fist of the First Man – Fist of the First Man Laurence Made Me Cry – The Diary of Me Little Arrow – Wild Wishes Metabeats – Caviar Crackle Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect Race Horses – Furniture Sweet Baboo – Ships Trwbador – Trwbador Winter Villains – February Zervas and Pepper – Lifebringer
2013–14	Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister	9 Bach – Tincian Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum Euros Childs – Situation Comedy Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident Gruff Rhys – American Interior Gulp – Season Sun Manic Street Preachers – Futurology Samoans – Rescue Slowly Rolling Camera – Slowly Rolling Camera The Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol The People The Poet – The Narrator
2014–15	Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf[6]	Calan – Dinas Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Balcony Geraint Jarman – Dwyn yr Hogyn Nol H. Hawkline – In the Pink of Condition Hippies vs Ghosts – Droogs Houdini Dax – Naughty Nation Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter Keys – Ring the Changes Paper Aeroplanes – Joy Richard James – All the New Highways Tender Prey – Organ Calzone Trwbador – Several Wolves Zarelli – Soft Rains Zefur Wolves – Zefur Wolves
2015–16	Meilyr Jones – 2013[7]	9Bach – Anian Alun Gaffey – Alun Gaffey Cate Le Bon – Crab Day Climbing Trees – Borders Datblygu – Porwr Trallod Plu – Tir a Golau Right Hand Left Hand – Right Hand Left Hand Simon Love – It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Skindred – Volume Sŵnami – Sŵnami The Anchoress – Confessions of a Romance Novelist
2016–17	The Gentle Good – Ruins/Adfeilion[8][9]	Baby Queens – Baby Queens Bendith (Plu and Colorama) – Bendith Cotton Wolf – Life in Analogue H. Hawkline – I Romanticize Toby Hay – The Gathering HMS Morris – Interior Design Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Y Proffwyd Dwyll Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens Gruff Rhys – Set Fire to the Stars Georgia Ruth – Fossil Scale Sweet Baboo – Wild Imagination
2017–18	Boy Azooga – 1, 2, Kung Fu! [10][11]	Alex Dingley – Beat the Babble Astroid Boys – Broke Boy Azooga – 1, 2, Kung Fu! Bryde – Like an Island Eugene Capper & Rhodri Brooks – Pontvane Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar Gwenno – Le Kov Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile Mellt – Mae'n Hawdd Pan Ti'n Ifanc Seazoo – Trunks Toby Hay – The Longest Day
2018–19	Adwaith – Melyn [12][13]	Accü – Echo the Red Adwaith – Melyn Audiobooks – Now! (in a minute) Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 – Joia! Cate Le Bon – Reward Deya – Lover Loner Estrons – You Say I'm Too Much I Say You're Not Enough HMS Morris – Inspirational Talks Lleuwen – Gwn Glân Beibl Budr Lucas J Rowe – Touchy Love Mr – Oesoedd Vrï – Tŷ Ein Tadau

References

1. Catfish and The Bottlemen, Joanna Gruesome lead Welsh Music Prize nominees
2. http://www.swnissound.com/about/
3. https://www.recordoftheday.com/news-and-press/welsh-music-prize-2016-the-shortlist
4. http://www.welshmusicprize.com/home/winners/
5. http://www.welshmusicprize.com/home/winners/
6. "Gwenno wins Welsh Music Prize 2015". BBC Wales. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37310972
8. https://twitter.com/welshmusicprize/status/921456087882137600
9. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-41702273
10. https://twitter.com/welshmusicprize/status/1060280625675100160
11. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46130165
12. https://twitter.com/welshmusicprize/status/1199792566645985285
13. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50573118

External links

• Official website