The
Wandering Hearts lead with 5 nominations
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BCMA
Awards 2018 - Harrogate Convention Centre, Saturday 24th November.
Tickets on sale at £30 with a 10%
discount for members.
Awards Guidelines & Membership Entitlements
ELIGIBILITY PERIOD: The
eligibility period for each award is 1st July 2017 to June 30th 2018.
British Country Music Association Awards
Nominations Process And Membership Entitlements
Only members of the British CMA in good standing can take
part in the nomination and voting process for our annual awards.
Who could nominate?
BCMA Members. Each
member could send up to three nominations per award category.
Artist members were allowed to nominate themselves if they
so wish.
NOMINATIONS: Opened on
20 July 2018 and closed on 10 August 2018. (3 weeks)
All the nominations were collated and presented to the
British CMA board, who drew up a shortlist for each award.
The shortlist goes forward to the voting process for
members to vote.
VOTING: Voting
will open on 20th Aug 2018 and close on 17th Sept 2018. (4 weeks). The Voting
is controlled and adjudicated by an independent body and the results are
released on awards night.
These are the 2018 BCMA Nominations for 14 awards:
UK Horizon Award
For UK emerging/new 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
(cannot be nominated twice for this award). Artist will not have previously won
an award in any category other than writer or video.
Kezia Gill, Izzie Walsh, Danny McMahon, Steve O’Connor,
Emily Faye
UK Duo of the Year
For a UK act made up of 2 members 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.
Gasoline & Matches, The Shires, Holloway Road, Foreign
Affairs, Ward Thomas
UK Album of the Year
For Country albums released by UK artists within the
eligibility period (1 July 2017 - June 30, 2018) (5 tracks or more will constitute an Album)
The Wandering Hearts – WILD
SILENCE (12 tracks; released: 9 Feb 2018 / 2018 Decca UK iTunes)
Jade Helliwell –
INFATUATION (5 tracks; released: 21 May 2018 / 2018 Jade Helliwell UK iTunes)
The Shires –
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE 12 tracks; released: 20 Apr 2018/ Decca Records UK iTunes)
Kezia Gill – KEZIA (11
Tracks; released: 23 March 2017 / 2017 Smoky Records UK iTunes)
Catherine McGrath – TALK OF
THIS TOWN (13 tracks; released 27 July 2018 / Warner Bros Records UK iTunes)
UK Musician of the Year
For UK Country 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.
Tom Wright, Steven Marks, Luke Thomas, Oliver Hopkins,
Yannick Van Riet
UK Video of the Year
For Country videos released by UK artists within the
eligibility period.
Backwoods Creek – ‘When I
Grow Up’
Darcy – ‘If I
Were You’
The Wandering Hearts – ‘Devil’
Hannah Paris – ‘Just You
Wait’
The Shires – ‘Guilty’
UK Male Vocalist
For a UK male artist (s) who have had an exemplary year
based on overall singing performance whether through album, song, radio
airplay, publicity, touring, or other criteria within the eligibility period.
Darcy, Gary Quinn, Danny McMahon, Kevin McGuire, Ags
Connolly
UK Group of the Year
For a UK act made up of 3 (or more) members 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.
Jess and the Bandits, Darcy Band, The Wandering Hearts,
Backwoods Creek, Morganway
UK Song of the Year
For Country songs released by UK artists
(either separately or on an album or EP) within the eligibility period.
The Wandering Hearts – ‘Fire and
Water’
Backwoods Creek – ‘When I
Grow Up’
Catherine McGrath – ‘Talk Of
This Town’
Jade Helliwell – ‘Boom
Tick’
Hannah Paris – ‘LA’
UK Female Vocalist
For a UK female artist(s) who have had an exemplary year
based on overall singing performance whether through album, song, radio
airplay, publicity, touring, or other criteria within the eligibility period.
Laura Oakes, Kezia Gill, Philippa Hanna, Jade Helliwell,
Demi Marriner
UK Entertainer 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.
Laura Oakes, Darcy, Morganway, Jade Helliwell, The
Wandering Hearts
Best Original UK
Festival
For UK festivals that predominantly showcase and promote
original UK Country artists.
Nashville Meets London, FSA Fest, Buckle & Boots, Black
Deer, Millport
International Song of
the Year
For Country songs released in the UK by international
artists (either separately or on an album or EP) within the eligibility period
– award given primarily to the artist with writers also acknowledged.
Old Dominion – Written
In The Sand
Brothers Osborne – Shoot Me
Straight
Filmore – Slower
Jenn Bostic – Revival
Luke Combs – When It
Rains It Pours
International Album of
the Year
For Country albums released in the UK by international
artists within the eligibility period.
Brothers Osborne - PORT SAINT JOE
Ashley McBryde - GIRL
GOING NOWHERE
Jenn Bostic - REVIVAL
Kacey Musgraves - GOLDEN
HOUR
Luke Combs - THIS
ONE'S FOR YOU
International Touring Act
International Touring Act
For
international artists who have had an exemplary year based on overall
recognition for their performances and touring activity in the UK within
the eligibility period.
Jenn
Bostic, American Young, Kip Moore, Filmore, Brothers Osborne
-------------------------------------------
The
first four artists set to perform at our BCMA
Showcase event on the afternoon of November 24th were announced:
Peter Donegan, Jennifer Atkin, Square One and Emily Faye
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BCMA Directors are: BJ Thomas (CEO), Jeanne Jordan (Secretary Director), Lara Goodfellow, Karl
Hancock (Buckle and Boots Country Music Festival CEO), Rob Davis (Founding member, owner Puddleduck Publshing Ltd,
publishers of Cross Country and Up Country magazine), Wayne Hadlow (Founder FSA Festival)
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Our Reaction & Comment
2018
marks the first year that the British Country
Music Association Awards nominations were selected by the BCMA members and not by a select panel who
chose them for members to vote on.
Nominations for the 2018 BCMA Awards opened on
July 22nd via the website. Members
could cast votes for their favourite homegrown country acts by being or
becoming a member for £20 per year. To vote they had to submit their membership
member which was verified.
The
Wandering Hearts led
the pack with 5 nominations (Album, Video, Song, Group, UK Entertainer of the
Year). On the Official UK Top 100 Albums Chart (Week Ending
22 February 2018) their album WILD
SILENCE made a debut at No.85 and
#1 on Official UK Country Album Top
20 with estimated sales of 1,000 copies.
At
the third annual UK
Americana Awards (Feb 1, 2018)
they received the Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award.
In a Life In You Song (Dan Wharton BCMA Press
Officer) Buckle &
Boots Country Festival Interview:
The UKs The Wandering Hearts talked about CMA Festival during their trip
to Tennessee, including their Opry debut, Ryman debut and their performance at
Graceland!
INTERVIEW: THE WANDERING HEARTS (BUCKLE & BOOTS 2018)
Buckle & Boots Country Festival Interview: The Wandering Hearts tell us all about their trip to Tennessee, including their Opry debut, Ryman debut and their performance at Graceland!
Posted by Your Life In A Song on Thursday, 28 June 2018
Darcy (Darcy Crawford) who originally hails from Brisbane, Australia and was based at Compstall, Manchester has received 4 nominations (Video, Group, Male Vocalist, UK Entertainer of the Year).
Last year he won UK Song of the Year (“Too Country For You” and Video of the Year (Hooked).
It is something of a surprise
that Darcy is nominated for both Male Vocalist and Group of the Year. The BCMA
need to add a caveat and bring into line with the CMAs regarding GROUP OF THE
YEAR. It should read: This Award goes to the group. A group is defined as an
act, composed of three (3) or more people, all of whom normally perform
together and none of whom is known
primarily as an individual performing artist. Think of it as say Florida
Georgia Line or the Eric Church Band nominated for CMA Group of the Year.
Lol yes very funny. There’s definitely never more than 3 members at any of my shows which have headlined several festivals this year. Maybe you should be the one defining rules for who can win what category? I apologise that my brand is too difficult for you to understand 😘— Darcy (@banddarcy) 17 August 2018
Wayne Hadlow (CEO FSA Fest; BCMA Director) speaking
about Darcy’s HOOKED EP last year said: “My good friend Darcy, he performs
wonderfully, the album is fantastic, an amazing album. Nothing out of Nashville
is better than it, the writing and material is just great, the songs are great.
Anyone that wants a good country album go out and buy it”
Two of the nominations for ALBUM of the Year fall outside the eligibility period (1 July 2017 -
June 30, 2018)
Kezia
Gill with her 11 track self-titled set KEZIA (Smoky Records UK iTunes)
was released: 23 March 2017 before the 1 July 2017 window.
The
album has a current Amazon UK
Bestsellers Rank: #15,117 in Albums and #452 in Digital Music (Country Albums).
A
frequent Live performer Kezia is also nominated for UK Female Vocalist.
Catherine
McGrath with her recent 13 track album TALK OF THIS TOWN (Warner Bros Records UK iTunes)
was officially released on July 27, 2018 which is outside the eligibility
period (June 30, 2018).
Her EP Starting From Now was released on 9 June 2017 and includes just one of the album tracks “Just In Case”.
Her EP Starting From Now was released on 9 June 2017 and includes just one of the album tracks “Just In Case”.
13 LUCKY
FOR SOME:
The Northern Irish country singer scored her Official UK Top 100 Albums Chart debut
at No.13 with her debut album TALK
OF THIS TOWN with 3,839 sales (Week
Ending 9 August 2018), falling 13-61 in her second frame (estimated sales
1,300, 2-week total 5,140). It was Album of the Week on BBC Radio 2.
Catherine also gets a nod for Song of the Year
for “Talk
of This Town”. An acoustic version was released on Oct 13, 2017.
Jade
Helliwell has
received 4 nominations (Album, Song,
Female Artist, UK Entertainer of the Year) after being crowned Female Vocalist of the Year in 2017
following the buzz surrounding an impromptu “Hallelujah” duet with
busker Dawid Osial which went VIRAL with over 18 million views!
Jade’s “‘Boom Tick’” is recognized with a
BCMA nomination for Song of the Year taken from her 21 May 2018 self-released 5
track EP INFATUATION (Amazon UK
- UK iTunes).
The EP debuted and peaked at #3 UK
iTunes Country Albums (#146 UK iTunes all-genre) quickly falling to #5 (#304
all-genres).
The following day is was at #10 (#578 UK all-genres), then #21 (#942 all-genres) and by Weds May 23rd it had fallen off the top 200 UK iTunes Country Albums. Despite several high profile 2018 festival appearances (Buckle & Boots, Nashville Meets London, FSA Fest, Black Thorn) the EP has not reappeared on the iTunes chart but her performances have drawn a nod for Entertainer of the Year.
The following day is was at #10 (#578 UK all-genres), then #21 (#942 all-genres) and by Weds May 23rd it had fallen off the top 200 UK iTunes Country Albums. Despite several high profile 2018 festival appearances (Buckle & Boots, Nashville Meets London, FSA Fest, Black Thorn) the EP has not reappeared on the iTunes chart but her performances have drawn a nod for Entertainer of the Year.
“You played quite a lot of your new material
that went down really well” – Dan Wharton
(BCMA Press Officer)
Your Life In A Song INTERVIEW:
Jade Helliwell (Nashville Meets London 2018)
Yorkshire Evening Post (28 June 2018) Music
interview – Jade Helliwell: ‘Nashville
has helped get younger audiences into country music’ “All of the songs on
the record in the end related to different aspects of infatuation,” shared the
Leeds-based country singer.
What what what?!! ‘Boom Tick’ that I wrote earlier this year with @suemcmillanuk has been nominated for ‘Song of The Year’ at this years britishcma awards😱 Sitting alongside some… https://t.co/LcBqob2EBR— Jade Helliwell Music (@jadehelliwell2) 16 August 2018
Last year’s Duo of the Year winners The Shires receive 3 nominations defending their title against Gasoline & Matches, Holloway Road, Foreign Affairs and Ward Thomas. They also get nods for UK Album of the Year (ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE UK iTunes) and UK Video of the Year for ‘Guilty’.
The Shires’ third album topped the first two
sales flashes of the debut week but their chances of becoming the second
home-grown country act to have a No.1 album (following Ward Thomas in 2016) evaporated
as the week progressed.
It debuted at No.3 (14,319 copies) matching the debut/peak of 2016 predecessor, My Universe, which sold 14,913 copies when it opened at No.3 in 2016. In the weeks that followed Accidentally On Purpose so far has not sold or charted anything like as successfully as My Universe. In their 10th week at retail Accidentally fell off the top 100 (estimated 10-week total 34,500) and placed at No.2 on UK Country iTunes chart (#331 UK iTunes all-genres). By comparison My Universe after 10 frames was at No.48 (total sales 48,500)
It debuted at No.3 (14,319 copies) matching the debut/peak of 2016 predecessor, My Universe, which sold 14,913 copies when it opened at No.3 in 2016. In the weeks that followed Accidentally On Purpose so far has not sold or charted anything like as successfully as My Universe. In their 10th week at retail Accidentally fell off the top 100 (estimated 10-week total 34,500) and placed at No.2 on UK Country iTunes chart (#331 UK iTunes all-genres). By comparison My Universe after 10 frames was at No.48 (total sales 48,500)
Despite their massive 22-date UK tour in May
and June, including headlining London’s Royal Albert Hall (Fri 18 May 2018; Capacity:
5272) they have not strangly registered with BCMA members thoughts regarding an
Entertainer nomination!
Gary
Quinn who is part of
the Buckle & Boots Festival team, will hope to win Male Vocalist for a third successive year adding to his five BCMA
Awards.
Gary is again up against last years Male
nominees Darcy,
Kevin McGuire, Ags Connolly with Danny McMahon the only newbie to the category.
Huge thank you to everyone that nominated me for Male Vocalist of the Year for this year's @BritishCMA Awards. Humbled to be included for a 3rd year running in this category alongside some great singers...and friends to boot 👌.— Gary Quinn (@GaryQuinnMusic) 15 August 2018
Best of luck to all nominees 😉 #bcma https://t.co/0BJYOTuMD2
New on the scene Danny McMahon receives 2 nominations (Horizon and Male Vocalist)
"You absolutely smashed it on The
Paddock Stage" - Dan Wharton (Press Officer BCMA and
head of website Your Life In Song) Interview with
Danny McMahon (BUCKLE & BOOTS 2018)
Thanks to online voting Danny has
also been acknowledged with 2 nominations for The UK Country Music Awards 2018 (sponsored by UK 24/7 Internet
Station UKCountryRadio.com) .
Voted by BCMA members, Danny is up against Kezia Gill, Izzie Walsh, Stevie
O'Connor and Emily Faye for Horizon Act
Of The Year.
Genuinely been the most nuts year and this just about tops it off! Thank you @BritishCMA for recognising my work this year ❤️🎤🎶 #ukcountry #britishcountry https://t.co/u5o88tyCWd— Danny McMahon (@dannymcmahonuk) 14 August 2018
Unsigned Horizon nominee
Stevie O'Connor is a fairly new name who hails from Gloucester and
currently resides in Merseyside. During 2018 he has performed at the VAMOS 2018
Festival in Perth, Jade Helliwell’s ‘Infatuation’ EP Launch, Towerfest Country
Music Festival, Welshpool Country Music Festival 2018 and FSA Country Music
Festival. He is set to play Wolverhampton Country Songwriters Night (Aug 25) and
looking forward to playing at Ashton Lane’s Album Launch on 29th November.
Stevie
O'Connor performing at FSA Festival 2018:
Kevin McGuire
Very proud to announce I've been nominated as 'Male Vocalist of the Year' at this year's official British Country Music Awards.— KEVIN MCGUIRE (@kevmcguiremusic) 19 August 2018
Thank you to everybody who I've had the pleasure of working with this year. #TeamEffort 👊❤️ pic.twitter.com/DpjCG2eACL
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