List of awards and nominations received by Kate Bush
This is a list of music awards and award nominations received by the English singer/songwriter Kate Bush.[1][2][3] To date Kate Bush has received 13 nominations for BRIT Awards throughout her career, but has so far won only once, in 1987.
Awards
1978
- Melody Maker Annual Poll Awards
- Best Female Singer and Brightest Hope, 1978
- Edison Award, from the Association of Dutch Phonographical Industries
- Best Single, 1978
1979
- Ivor Novello Awards
- Outstanding British Lyric (for The Man With the Child in His Eyes)
- BPI Awards
- Best Female Singer
- Record Mirror Poll
- Best New Artist, 1978
- Melody Maker Annual Poll Awards
- Best Female Singer, 1979
1980
- BPI Awards
- Best Female Singer
- Music Week annual awards
- Top Female Artist, 1979
- Capital Radio Awards
- Best Female Vocalist, 1979
- NME poll
- Best Female Singer, 1979
- Record Mirror poll
- Best Female Singer, 1979
- TV Times top ten awards
- Most exciting TV female singer 1979
1981
- MIDEM Video Awards
- Best International Performance, for Babooshka
1987
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Solo Artist
- US College Music Awards
- Best British Female Solo Artist
2002
- Q Awards
- Q Classic Songwriter Award
2002
- Ivor Novello Awards
- Outstanding Contribution to British Music
2006
- In the BBC's The Culture Show, she came seventh in a viewer's poll of Britain's Living Icons.[4]
2007
- The Observer Readers award
- Greatest Cover of all time for a 1991 cover of Elton John's Rocket Man[5]
2008
- BBC "Pop on Trial" Readers Poll
- Seventh Best Song of the 1970s Wuthering Heights[6]
- The Sunday Telegraph
- Second Best British Songwriter of all time [7]
- Out Magazine
- 52nd Greatest Gayest Album Hounds of Love[8]
- 90th Greatest Gayest Album The Kick Inside[9]
- Virgin Media readers poll
- 1st Place Alternative Cool list [10]
2012
- South Bank Sky Arts Awards
- Best Album: 50 Words For Snow[11]
2014
- Evening Standard Theatre Awards [12]
- Editor's Award
Nominations
1986
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Best Female Video (for Running Up That Hill)
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Artist[13]
- Best British Album (for Hounds of Love)
- Best British Single (for Running Up That Hill)
1987
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Best Female Video (for The Big Sky)
1988
- Grammy Awards
- Best Concept Music Video (for Experiment IV)
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Artist[14]
1990
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Artist
- Best British Producer (for The Sensual World)
1991
- Grammy Awards
- Best Alternative Music Performance (for The Sensual World)
1993
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Artist[15]
1995
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Artist[16]
1996
- Grammy Awards
- Best Music Video - Long Form (for The Line, the Cross & the Curve)
2005
- BRIT Awards
- Best Song Of The Past 25 Years (for Wuthering Heights)[17]
2006
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Solo Artist
- Best British Album (for Aerial)
2007
- Satellite Awards
- Best Original Song (for Lyra)
2012
- BRIT Awards
- Best British Female Solo Artist
- Ivor Novello Awards
- Best Album: 50 Words For Snow
2014
References
- ^ "Awards Database". The Envelope. Retrieved 15 February 2007.
- ^ "Search results for Kate Bush". The BRIT Awards. Retrieved 15 February 2007. [dead link]
- ^ "The Q Awards". EveryHit.com. Retrieved 15 February 2007.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/
- ^ Kate Bush News and Information Website
- ^ BBC "Pop on Trial" 31 January 2008
- ^ 50 Best British Songwriters The Telegraph 19 May 2008
- ^ 100 Greatest Gayest Albums 51-60 Out Magazine
- ^ Top 100 Greatest Gayest albums 81-90 Out Magazine
- ^ Virgin Media's alternative Cool List 2008 Virgin Media
- ^ Kate wins South Bank Sky Arts Award!
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30271792
- ^ http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/kate-bush
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftFZ7FU6Ew
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhHUs1b2fcs
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ91dPRK3O0
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9JEa_pzLFs
- ^ http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/kate-bush-is-up-for-two-q-awards-30571710.html