Scottish Album of the Year Award

The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award

Awarded for	Best album by a Scottish artist
Location	Scotland
First awarded	2012
Official website	www.sayaward.com

The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award is an award given annually for an outstanding album produced by a Scottish artist. The award was launched in 2012 by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) in partnership with Creative Scotland.^[1]

An initial longlist of 20 albums is reduced to a shortlist of 10 each year. The winner receives £20,000, with the 9 runners-up receiving £1,000 each.^[2]

Past winners

Year	Winner	Shortlisted	References
2012	Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat – Everything's Getting Older	Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel Happy Particles – Under Sleeping Waves King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Mungo's Hi Fi – Forward Ever Remember Remember – The Quickening Rustie – Glass Swords Tommy Smith – Karma Twin Atlantic – Free	^[3]^[4]
2013	RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found	Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow Django Django – Django Django Human Don't Be Angry – Human Don't Be Angry Karine Polwart – Traces Lau – Race the Loser Meursault – Something for the Weakened Paul Buchanan – Mid-Air Stanley Odd – Reject The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know	^[5]^[6]
2014	Young Fathers – Tape Two	Biffy Clyro – Opposites Boards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe Edwyn Collins – Understated Hector Bizerk – Nobody Seen Nothing RM Hubbert – Breaks & Bone Steve Mason – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time Mogwai – Les Revenants The Pastels – Slow Summits	^[7]^[8]
2015	Kathryn Joseph – Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I've Spilled.	Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance Errors – Lease of Life Happy Meals – Apero Honeyblood – Honeyblood Paolo Nutini – Caustic Love PAWS – Youth Culture Forever Slam – Reverse Procede The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads Young Fathers – Dead	^[9]
2016	Anna Meredith – Varmints	Auntie Flo – Theory of Flo C Duncan – Architect Chvrches – Every Open Eye Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield FFS – FFS Lau – The Bell That Never Rang Steve Mason – Meet the Humans The Revenge – Love That Will Not Die Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too	^[10]

External links

http://www.sayaward.com/

References

↑ "Scottish Album of the Year Award launches to celebrate country's finest musical talent". STV. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ Lower, Sian. "Scottish Album of the Year Award longlist announced". The List. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ "Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat win Scottish Album of the Year". BBC. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ West, Rosamund. "Scottish Album of the Year 2012 shortlist announced". The Skinny. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ Michaels, Sean. "RM Hubbert wins Scottish Album of the Year Award". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ "Revealed: The shortlist for the Scottish Album of the Year". The Scotsman. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ "Young Fathers win Scottish Album of the Year for Tape Two". BBC. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ "Young Fathers win Scottish Album of the Year Award". The Skinny. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
↑ "Kathryn Joseph Wins The SAY Award 2015". Clash. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Shortlist for the 2016 Scottish Album of the Year Award revealed". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 2016-06-17.

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