Q Awards

Q Awards
Awarded for Excellence in music
Country United Kingdom
Presented by Q
First awarded 1990
Last awarded 2016
Official website Qthemusic.com

The Q Awards are the UK's annual music awards run by the music magazine Q. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards. Locations for the awards ceremony include Abbey Road Studios and, more recently, The Park Lane Ballroom.

One of the more notable events of the awards was the ceremony of 2004, at which Elton John accused Madonna of cheating fans by miming on stage, after she had been nominated for a Best Live Act award.[1] The 2001 event, was somewhat notoriously notable for Phil Jupitus stretching out the time it took to announce the "Best Producer" award, with him exclaiming "Best Producer?.... 'Would you like a cowbell in that?'", before being told off camera to get on with announcing the winner.

The Q Awards have included many awards recognising a lifetime of achievement, rather than achievements over the year in question. In recent years, the 'lifetime' awards have usually outnumbered the 'current' awards.

Results

2016

The winners of 2016's Q Awards are:[2]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Muse
Best Live Act U2
Best Breakthrough Act Jack Garratt
Best Solo Artist James Bay
Best Track Bastille — "Good Grief"
Best Video PJ Harvey — "The Community of Hope"
Best Album The 1975I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It

2015

The winners of 2015's Q Awards are:[3]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Foals
Best Live Act Royal Blood
Best New Act James Bay
Best Solo Artist Ed Sheeran
Best Track The Libertines — "Gunga Din"
Best Video Florence and the Machine — "Ship to Wreck"
Best Album Noel Gallagher's High Flying BirdsChasing Yesterday

2014

The winners of 2014's Q Awards are:[4]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Kasabian
Best Live Act Kasabian
Best New Act Sam Smith
Best Solo Artist Ed Sheeran
Best Track Paolo Nutini — "Iron Sky"
Best Video Jamie xx — "Sleep Sound"
Best Album ElbowThe Take Off and Landing of Everything

2013

The winners of 2013's Q Awards are:[5]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Vampire Weekend
Best Live Act Foals
Best New Act Jake Bugg
Best Solo Artist Ellie Goulding
Q Best Event Glastonbury Festival
Best Track Arctic Monkeys — "Do I Wanna Know?"
Best Video Manic Street Preachers — "Show Me the Wonder"
Best Album Biffy ClyroOpposites

2012

The winners of 2012's Q Awards are:[6]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Muse
Best Live Act Blur
Best New Act Django Django
Best Solo Artist Emeli Sandé
Best Track Plan B — "Ill Manors"
Best Video Keane — "Disconnected"
Best Album Bobby WomackThe Bravest Man in the Universe

2011

The winners of 2011's Q Awards are:[7]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Coldplay
Best Live Act Biffy Clyro
Best New Act WU LYF
Breakthrough Artist Ed Sheeran
Best Male Tinie Tempah
Best Female Adele
Q's Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years U2
Best Track Adele — "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Video Jessie J — "Do It like a Dude"
Best Album Bon IverBon Iver, Bon Iver

2010

The winners of 2010's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Kasabian
Best Live Act Green Day
Best New Act Mumford & Sons
Breakthrough Artist Plan B
Best Male Paolo Nutini
Best Female Florence and the Machine
Best Track Florence and the Machine — "You've Got The Love"
Best Video Chase & Status — "End Credits"
Best Album The NationalHigh Violet

2009

The winners of 2009's Q Awards are:[8][9]

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Muse
Best Live Act Arctic Monkeys
Best New Act White Lies
Breakthrough Artist Mr Hudson
Best Track Lily Allen — "The Fear"
Best Video Lady Gaga — "Just Dance"
Best Album KasabianWest Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

2008

The winners of 2008's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Coldplay
Best Live Act Kaiser Chiefs
Best New Act The Last Shadow Puppets
Breakthrough Artist Duffy
Best Track Keane — "Spiralling"
Best Video Vampire Weekend — "A-Punk"
Best Album Coldplay — "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends"

2007

The winners of 2007's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Arctic Monkeys
Best Live Act Muse
Best New Act The Enemy
Breakthrough Artist Kate Nash
Best Track Manic Street Preachers — "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
Best Video Kaiser Chiefs — "Ruby"
Best Album Amy WinehouseBack to Black

2006

The winners of 2006's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Oasis
Best Live Act Muse
Best New Act Corinne Bailey Rae
Best Track Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"
Best Video The Killers — "When You Were Young"
Best Album Arctic MonkeysWhatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

2005

The winners of 2005's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Coldplay
Best Live Act U2
Best New Act James Blunt
Best Track KT Tunstall — "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"
Best Video Gorillaz — "Feel Good Inc."
Best Album OasisDon't Believe the Truth

2004

The winners of 2004's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best Live Act Muse
Best New Act Razorlight
Best Producer Mick Jones (The LibertinesThe Libertines)
Best Track Jamelia — "See It in a Boy's Eyes"
Best Video Franz Ferdinand — "Take Me Out"
Best Album KeaneHopes and Fears

2003

The winners of 2003's Q Awards are:

Awards Winner(s) Nominee(s)
Best Act in the World Today Radiohead
Best Live Act Robbie Williams
Best New Act The Thrills
Best Producer Nigel Godrich (RadioheadHail to the Thief)
Q Innovation in Sound Muse
Best Track Christina Aguilera — "Dirrty"
Best Video Electric Six — "Gay Bar"
Best Album BlurThink Tank

2002

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2001

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2000

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1999

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1998

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1997

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1996

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1995

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1994

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1993

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1992

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1991

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1990

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Criticism

At the 2006 Q Awards, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner criticised the choice of Take That for the "Idol" award. Commenting on the winners of the night, he said:

A lot of people make jokes about having awards for no reason just for the sake of having awards, and pretending they were good when they weren't. I'm not old enough to know a lot of them, but even I know Take That were bollocks.[10]

References

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  2. "And The Winner is… Muse, The 1975, U2, MIA, Blondie, Bastille, PJ Harvey & more honoured at StubHub Q Awards 2016". qthemusic.com. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. "Q Awards 2015: The Winners!". qthemusic.com. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. "Xperia Access Q Awards – all the 2014 winners". qthemusic.com. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  5. "Q Awards 2013 - the winners!". news.qthemusic.com. 21 October 2013. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  6. "Muse, Pulp and Blur win Q Awards". BBC News. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  7. "Adele wins two Q awards but ill health forces her to miss the ceremony". Daily Telegraph. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  8. "Q Awards 2009 Nominees". Q (magazine). 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
  9. "Q Awards 2009 Winners". Q (magazine). 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
  10. Brown, Mark (2006-10-31). "Oldies are golden at the Q awards". The Guardian. London.
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