NOMINATIONS OPEN IN EARLY OCT EACH YEAR FOR TWO WEEKS 

The AMA-UK board then collate all the nominations and draw up a short list 

Please note that nominating is open only to AMA-UK members.  All members will be individually emailed details.

The eligibility period for each award is 1st October to 30th September  : please check the release dates of your nominated songs or albums.
Need help remembering some of the great records from the past year take a look at our charts page.  But please don't forget not all eligible releases were in the chart.

Due to its sensitive nature, all nomination processes are completely confidential. The Board takes every precaution to ensure that no conflict of interest occurs, as many board members work closely within the Americana genre we will ensure that if any artist is directly connected to a board member they step out of the process if that artist is being considered for the shortlist.

Nomination Criteria

UK Album of the Year – for Americana albums released by UK artists within the eligibility period
UK Song of the Year – for Americana songs released by UK artists (either separately or on an album or EP) within the eligibility period
UK Artist of the Year – for UK artists who have had an exemplary year based on overall recognition and activity whether through album, song, radio airplay, publicity, touring, or other criteria within the eligibility period
UK Instrumentalist of the Year – for UK Americana musicians who have had an exemplary year based on overall recognition and activity whether through performing on an album or song, touring, or other criteria within the eligibility period

New Award for 2023

UK Live Act Of The Year   - for UK artists that have had an exemplary year touring and gigging on the UK venue and festival circuit.  

International Album of the Year – for Americana albums released in the UK by international artists within the eligibility period

International Song of the Year – for Americana songs released in the UK by international artists (either separately or on an album or EP) within the eligibility period

International Artist of the Year – for international artists who have had an exemplary year based on overall recognition and activity in the UK, whether through album, song, radio airplay, publicity, touring, or other criteria within the eligibility period

UK artists are individuals, duos or groups whose members hold a British passport or ILR and are tax resident in the UK during the eligibility period. Any group that has non-UK members would normally be considered International. However, those with at least 50%* UK members may appeal to the AMA-UK board to be classed as a UK Artist.

International artists are all artists not fulfilling the criteria for UK artists.

* for clarity: this means that a duo with one UK member and one international member would need to apply to the AMA-UK board if they wished to be considered as a UK artist; a trio with two UK members and one international member can appeal to the board to be classed as a UK Artist; a trio with two international members and only one UK member will automatically be classed as International and cannot appeal for UK Artist status. The board’s decision on any appeal is final. Note that this does not apply in the case of Song of the Year: the Song awards are for honouring exemplary songwriting – any UK songwriter who is a credited cowriter on an eligible Americana song can be nominated no matter how many other songwriters (UK or International) are also credited on the same song.

Who can nominate?

• You must be a Member: if you are not yet a member, please Join us now
• You must be logged in to the Members area of the website to participate in the nominations process.
• Each member can send up to three nominations per award category.
• Artist members are allowed to nominate themselves if they so wish.
• You can nominate the same artist for different awards.
• You can nominate artists who are not themselves members of the AMA-UK.
• Any genre definition will always be a grey area, with moving goalposts: if you think an artist, album or song is Americana, then just go ahead and nominate them.
• Once you have submitted your nominations, you will not be able to change them.
• Once the nomination period has ended no further nominations will be accepted.
•  All the nominations will be collated and presented to the AMA-UK board, who will draw up a shortlist for each award.
• The shortlist will go forward to the voting process, which will open in November 2024