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

• Q Awards^[18]
  • Best Act in the World Today
  • Best Live Act

References

1. "Awards Database". The Envelope. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
2. "Search results for Kate Bush". The BRIT Awards. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
3. "The Q Awards". EveryHit.com. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/
5. Kate Bush News and Information Website
6. BBC "Pop on Trial" 31 January 2008
7. 50 Best British Songwriters The Telegraph 19 May 2008
8. 100 Greatest Gayest Albums 51-60 Out Magazine
9. Top 100 Greatest Gayest albums 81-90 Out Magazine
10. Virgin Media's alternative Cool List 2008 Virgin Media
11. Kate wins South Bank Sky Arts Award!
12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30271792
13. http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/kate-bush
14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftFZ7FU6Ew
15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhHUs1b2fcs
16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ91dPRK3O0
17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9JEa_pzLFs
18. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/kate-bush-is-up-for-two-q-awards-30571710.html