Scottish Album of the Year Award: Entries open for 2018

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award 2018 is now open for entries, with artists, labels and music fans now able to submit eligible albums to The SAY Award website to be considered for this year’s award

Article by Jamie Dunn | 01 May 2018

The Scottish Album of the Year Award, Scotland’s most popular and prestigious music prize, returns for its seventh year in 2018 and is now looking for nominations. Whether you’re an artist, label or music fan, you can now submit eligible albums to The SAY Award website to be considered for this year’s prize. There is no limitation on the music being nominated, the award is open to all genres of music. The only criteria is that the album has to have been released by a Scottish artist, or an artist based in Scotland, between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018.

Once all nominations for eligible albums have been collated, 100 impartial ‘nominators’ chosen from various sectors including journalism, broadcast and radio, music retail and venues that host live music, will consider the titles from The SAY Award’s Eligible Albums list, nominating their five favourite albums and ranking them in order of preference.

From this stage comes the 20-strong longlist, which is in turn whittled down to a shortlist of ten, one of which will be chosen by a public vote. The previous SAY Award winners include Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat’s Everything’s Getting Older (2012), RM Hubbert’s Thirteen Lost & Found (2013), Young Fathers’ Tape Two (2014), Kathryn Joseph’s Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled (2015), Anna Meredith’s Varmints (2016), and last year’s winner, Sacred Paws, with Strike A Match.

To nominate your Scottish album of the last year to join this list, head to The SAY Award website for eligibility criteria, guidelines and more information: www.sayaward.com