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Unlike the more mainstream ARIA music awards, the AMP aims to encourage independent music - the prize's stated aim is to "financially reward and increase exposure for an Australian artist (or group of artists) who have produced and commercially released what specially appointed judges vote is the best contemporary music album in any one calendar year". In this sense, the AMP is broadly comparable to the UK's Mercury Music Prize. The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ... The Mercury Music Prize, now officially known as the Nationwide Mercury Prize, is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ...

Inaugural prize

The inaugural AMP was awarded in 2005. It was won by The Drones for their album Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By. The winner was chosen from a shorlist of eight: The Drones are an Australian rock group who rose to prominence during the early noughties. ...

• Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
• The Devastations - Coal
• The Drones - Wait Long by the River...
• The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
• The Mess Hall - Notes from a Ceiling
• Tex, Don and Charlie - All is Forgiven
• TZU - Smiling at Strangers
• Wolfmother - Wolfmother

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External link

• 2006 Website

• 2005 Official website