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Soundmerch Announces Partnership with the Australian Music Prize $20,000 in Prize Money Guaranteed SOUNDMERCH ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PRIZE $20,000 IN PRIZE MONEY GUARANTEED MEDIA RELEASE November 12th 2020 MELBOURNE’S Australia’s most prestigious music award announced Emerging in 2005, the Australian Music Prize its return in 2020 for its 16th prize, last month. With has provided a mouthpiece for the best albums in SOUNDMERCH COVID-19 putting many people and businesses under Australian contemporary music, judged by esteemed TODAY PROUDLY immense financial pressure, The AMP, whose primary peers within the Australian music industry that ANNOUNCES A source of income had been sponsorship, announced a focuses on creative merit over mainstream popularity. unique opportunity to purchase t-shirts with 70% of A sister prize to the UK’s coveted Mercury Prize, the PARTNERSHIP WITH all profit from sales going directly to the artists Australian Music Prize is Australia’s most sought- THE AUSTRALIAN through prize money and marketing of the albums. after achievement within the music community, MUSIC PRIZE honouring the album as an art form. Since then, SoundMerch has generously stepped (THE AMP) IN 2020, up to give back to the Australian music industry by With over 50 Australian albums nominated - so far STEPPING UP AS sponsoring the prize. With COVID-19 putting a pause - the 16th AMP will announce its final list of 2020 THE NAMING RIGHTS in live music and the tour merch that comes with Nominated Albums in December. In 2019, this list that, bands have been pushing their online music was 107 albums long out of 440 eligible albums with SPONSOR. merch more than ever as one of their main sources of numbers looking similar this year. As per previous income. This saw online merch and vinyl sales triple prizes, the Shortlist will be announced in early-Feb THE PARTNERSHIP for Australia’s SoundMerch who has been printing and 2021 and then a select panel of the judges will meet GUARANTEES A CASH producing merch for over 10 years. in March to decide on and announce, a winner. PRIZE OF $20,000 “We’ve had a great year and would like to give “It’s admirable of Tim to stand up to declare he’s FOR THE WINNER. something back to Australian artists given most of making money from Aussie music and therefore them haven’t had a great year. Doing this through he wants to give back and support the artists, The AMP also helps promote a healthy music scene I urge artists to work with companies like this. which in turn helps SoundMerch” SoundMerch’s support means we can guarantee Tim Everist, CEO of SoundMerch. a cash prize of $20,000 and if our t-shirt sales continue, we may even be able to offer more funds for those artists making great albums” Scott B. Murphy — AMP Founder and Prize Director THE #1 Dads Golden Repair Jess Cornelius Distance Shepparton Airplane Sharks 5 Seconds Of Summer Calm Karate Boogaloo Simona Castricum Panic/Desire NOMINATED Carn The Boogers Alice Ivy Don’t Sleep Snowy Band Audio Commentary ALBUMS – Katie Dey Mydata Andras Joyful Sophie Hutchings SO FAR L-Fresh The Lion South West Scattered On The Wind Andrew Tuttle Alexandra Loser Mindless Joy Stevan Just Kids Banoffee Look At Us Now Dad 2020 AUSTRALIAN Luke Howard Sweet Whirl How Much Works Big Yawn No! The Sand That Ate The Sea ARTIST ALBUM Tame Impala The Slow Rush RELEASES THAT HAVE Boomalli The Promise Mark Seymour & The Undertow Slow Dawn The Chats High Risk Behaviour BEEN NOMINATED Cable Ties Far Enough Miiesha Nyaaringu The Friends Of David McComb (TO DATE) BY THE Caiti Baker Mary Of The North Truckload Of Sky Mild Minds Mood JUDGES OF THE Clamm Beseech Me The Necks Three DMAs The Glow Nat Vazer 16TH AUSTRALIAN Is This Offensive And Loud? Tracey Mc Neil & The Goodlife e44443 Coldstream Road You Be The Lightning MUSIC PRIZE Nick Griffith 7AM Eddy Current Suppression Ring Traffik Island Sweat Kollecta’s All In Good Time Party Dozen Peanut Butter Traffik Jam Pray For Party Dozen Fanny Lumsden Fallow Vanessa Perica Orchestra Primo! Sogni Love Is A Temporary Madness Good Boy It Takes A Lot Of Skill To Milk A Mare Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK Sideways To New Italy Gordi Our Two Skins Ziggy Ramo Black Thoughts Roza Terenzi Modern Bliss Gordon Koang Unity RVG Feral Gum Out In The World Sarah Mary Chadwick Jack Colwell Swandream Please Daddy LOVE AUSSIE The AMP Tees and Tee/Facemask bundles MADE MUSIC? are available at SoundMerch BUY A TEE 70% OF ALL PROFITS FROM SALES WILL GO DIRECTLY TO ARTISTS BY WAY OF PRIZE MONEY AND MARKETING OF THEIR ALBUMS. PRE-ORDER NOW THE SOUNDMERCH AMP 2020 IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY 16TH SOUNDMERCH AMP JUDGES Cameron Adams Bryget Chrisfield Sosefina Fuamoli Kate Hennessy Abbe May Andrew Sinclair Sam Anning Dan Condon ‘Ofa Fotu Triana Hernandez Tiarney Miekus Jeb Taylor Steve Bell Shaad D’Souza Tim Freedman Michael Hohnen Bruce Milne Cassie Walker Chris Berkley Jessica Dale Chris Gill Chris Holland Holly Pereira Simon Winkler Maia Bilyk Tim Daley Mike Glynn Phil Jamieson Zoë Radas David James Young Martin Boulton Hayden Davies Dan Gordon Amelia Jenner Rok Riley Bernard Zuel Mikey Cahill Andrew Drever Alex Gow Shannon Logan Jeremy Rose CONTACT SCOTT B MURPHY PRIZE DIRECTOR, THE AMP [email protected] 0408 118 000.
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