He XI Noise Award announces its finalists National Record of the Year. A total of twelve albums that have marked the country’s musical news for different reasons.
PAM (Associated Music Journalists), the association that integrates more than three hundred music information professionals in our country, has announced the list of the twelve finalists to compete for the Ruido Award.
The next Thursday March 12 will be held at the Berlanga Room in Madrid the 11th Edition of this award, which recognizes the Best Spanish Record of the Year, where talent and creativity prevail regardless of sales, playlists, algorithms and bots.
The award has been coming from PAM for 11 years, as a way to make the profession visible at a delicate time for the sector, and for journalism in general. More than seventy accredited music journalists – which represents a historical record of participation – have voted in this first phase.
Now PAM members will vote again independently to choose the winning album, which will be unveiled at the gala on March 12, following exclusively artistic criteria. Among the nominees are genres such as pop, rock, electronic, shoegaze, flamenco, indie or hardcore.
The twelve nominated albums are:
– Amaia “If I open my eyes it’s not real” (Universal Music)
– Carlos Ares “The Wolf’s Mouth” (BMG)
– Open Front “War on all that” (Universal)
– FUET! “Make It Happen” (Dungeon Study)
– Guitarricadelafuente “Spanish Leather” (Sony Music)
– Pumuky “Don’t let go of the ephemeral” (Pumuky)
– Repion “201” (Mushroom Pillow)
– Rosalía “Lux” (Columbia Records, Sony Music)
– Rufus T. Firefly “All Good Things” (Lago Naranja Records, Altafonte)
– rusowski “DAISY” (Russia-IDK, Warner Music)
– shego “I won’t do it again” (Ernie Records, Altafonte)
– Valeria Castro “the body after all” (Valeria Castro, Warner Music)
The Noise Award gala will be held next March 12 at the Sala Berlanga in Madrid with the collaboration of AGEDI, AIE and Fundación SGAE. The award ceremony is framed in what PAM has proposed to be the great Day of Music Journalism in Spain, together with the celebration of the II Congress of Music Journalism that will take place during the day at the AIE headquarters, and of which we will reveal more details soon.
The list of winners from the ten-year history of Premio Ruido is a journey through the enormous cultural wealth of Spanish music, its evolution and also its diversity.
The ten winners so far have been:
2024: Alcalá Norte: Alcalá Norte (music shadow, balaunka)
2023: María José Llergo: Ultrabelleza (Sony Music) 2022: Rocío Márquez y BRONQUIO: Tercer cielo (Universal Music)
2021: Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés: Clamor (Fina Estampa)
2020: Bizarre Love Triangle: Bizarre Love Triangle (Mushroom Pillow)
2019: Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimba: Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimba (Primavera Labels, Universal Music)
2018: Rosalía: Evil Want (Columbia Records, Sony Music)
2017: Rosalía & Refree: Los Angeles (Rosalía & Refree, Universal Music)
2016: Bizarre Love Triangle: Hail Discord (Mushroom Pillow)
2015: Niño de Elche: Voices from the extreme (Francisco Contreras Molina, Sony Music)
Premio Ruido is organized by PAM and The Live Club and has the collaboration of AGEDI, AIE, the SGAE Foundation and Radio 3.
