Scottish Album of the Year Award

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 Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY 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.

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.

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
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
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
2015	Kathryn Joseph - Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I've Spilled.	Belle & Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance Errors (band) - Lease of Life Happy Meals (band) - Apero Honeyblood - Honeyblood Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love PAWS (band) - Youth Culture Forever Slam (band) - Reverse Procede The Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads Young Fathers - Dead

External links

• http://www.sayaward.com/