The SAY Award

Since its inauguration in 2012, the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award has grown to become Scotland’s most popular and prestigious music prize. Wielding a £20,000 prize for the winner, 9 runner-up prizes of £1,000 each and a design commission which highlights the enduring links between music, art and design in Scotland, The SAY Award is respected by artists, valued by the industry and is responsible for both a surge in musical discovery and an explosion of impassioned debate on social media. .

Placing artistic merit before sales history, genre or record label affiliation, The SAY Award dispenses with categorisation, opting instead for the creation of a bold, unifying platform from which Scotland’s most outstanding albums - across all genres - can be celebrated, discovered and championed.

The SAY Award is produced by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA), the organisation tasked with representing and developing Scotland's music industry.