PLAY - Portuguese Music Awards

PLAY - Portuguese Music Awards
PLAY - Portuguese Music Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in music
Sponsored by	Vodafone
Date	February 25, 2020
Venue	Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon
Country	Portugal
Hosted by	Filomena Cautela; Inês Lopes Gonçalves
First awarded	April 9, 2019
Most awards	Dino D'Santiago (3)
Most nominations	Blaya; ProfJam (4)
Website	playpremiosdamusicaportuguesa.pt
Television/radio coverage
Network	RTP
Produced by	PassMúsica
	← 2019; 2020; 2021 →;

PLAY - Portuguese Music Awards (pt: PLAY - Prémios da Música Portuguesa) are annual awards for the Portuguese music scene, sponsored by Vodafone.^[1]^[2]

The first edition took place at Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon on 9 April 2019 and was broadcast by RTP, presented by Filomena Cautela and Inês Lopes Gonçalves.^[3]^[4]

Editions[]


#	Date	Venue	Presenters	Broadcaster
1	April 9, 2019	Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon	Filomena Cautela Inês Lopes Gonçalves	RTP
2	June 29, 2020
3	July 8, 2021

Categories[]

Active[]

Vodafone Best Song (2019–)
Best Female Artist (2020–)
Best Male Artist (2020–)
Best Group (2019–)
Best Album (2019–)
Best Fado Album (2019–)
Best Jazz Album (2020–)
Best Classical/Erudite Music Album (2020–)
Best Videoclip (2019–)
Revelation of the Year (2019–)
Lusophony Award (2019–)
Critics Award (2019–)
Career Award (2019–)

Extinct[]

Best Solo Artist (2019)
Best International Artist (2019)
Best International Song (2019)

Active categories winners[]

Vodafone Best Song[]

This award is voted by the public via internet and phonecalls.

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Song title	Artist(s)	Song title	Artist(s)
2019	"Estradas no Céu"	Valas feat. Raquel Tavares	"Devia Ir"	Wet Bed Gang
			"Água de Côco"	ProfJam
			"Faz Gostoso"	Blaya
2020	"Amor, A Nossa Vida"	Capitão Fausto	"Bairro"	Wet Bed Gang
			"Bússola"	Nenny
			"Também Sonhar"	Slow J feat. Sara Tavares

Best Female Artist[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2020	Lena D’Água	Aldina Duarte Ana Bacalhau Blaya

Best Male Artist[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2020	Slow J	Diogo Piçarra Fernando Daniel Salvador Sobral

Best Group[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2019	Dead Combo	Wet Bed Gang Linda Martini Diabo na Cruz
2020	Capitão Fausto	The Gift Expensive Soul Mão Morta

Best Album[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Album title	Artist(s)	Album title	Artist(s)
2019	"Mundu Nôbu"	Dino D'Santiago	"Mariza"	Mariza
			"Do avesso"	António Zambujo
			"Odeon Hotel"	Dead Combo
2020	"Aqui Está-se Sossegado"	Camané & Mário Laginha	"#FFFFFF"	Profjam
			"You are forgiven"	Slow J
			"A Invenção do Dia Claro"	Capitão Fausto

Best Fado Album[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Album title	Artist(s)	Album title	Artist(s)
2019	"Maria"	Carminho	"Sempre"	Katia Guerreiro
			"Sara"	Sara Correia
			"Branco"	Cristina Branco
2020	"Aqui Está-se Sossegado"	Camané & Mário Laginha
			"Roubados"	Aldina Duarte
			"Um Fado ao Contrário"	Pedro Moutinho
			"Puro"	Matilde Cid

Best Jazz Album[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Album title	Artist(s)	Album title	Artist(s)
2020	TBD	TBD

Best Classical/Erudite Music Album[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Album title	Artist(s)	Album title	Artist(s)
2020	TBD	TBD

Best Videoclip[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Artist	Song title	Artist	Song title
2019	Pedro Abrunhosa	"Amor em tempo de muros"	ProfJam	"Água de Côco"
			Boss AC	"Queque foi"
			Blaya	"Eu avisei"
2020	Branko, Sango, Cosima, ProfJam	"Hear from You"	The Gift	"Verão"
			António Zambujo	"Catavento da Sé"
			Lena D’Água	"Grande Festa"

Revelation of the Year[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2019	Conan Osíris	Papillon Sara Correia Selma Uamusse
2020	Bárbara Tinoco	Nenny Murta Tiago Nacarato

Lusophony Award[]

Year	Winner		Nominees
Year	Artist	Song title	Artist	Song title
2019	Matias Damásio	"Nada Mudou"	C4 Pedro	"Se Eu Soubesse"
			Ludmilla	“Din Din Din”
			Nelson Freitas	"Nubian Queen"
2020		"Sonhos"	Anitta & Kevinho	"Terremoto"
			Giulia Be	"Menina Solta"
			Tainá	"Sonhos"
			Silva e Ludmilla	"Um Pôr do Sol na Praia"

Critics Award[]

Year	Winner
2019	Dino d'Santiago
2020	TBD

Career Award[]

Year	Winner
2019	Carlos do Carmo
2020	TBD

Extinct categories winners[]

Best Solo Artist[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2019	Dino d'Santiago	Diogo Piçarra Blaya António Zambujo
2020	Extinct

Best International Artist[]

Year	Winner	Nominees
2019	Kendrick Lamar	Ariana Grande Drake Cardi B
2020	Extinct

Best International Song[]

Year	Winner (Song title)	Nominees (Song title)
2019	Kendrick Lamar - "All The Stars"	Drake - "God's Plan" Ariana Grande - "No Tears Left To Cry" Shawn Mendes - "In My Blood"
2020	Extinct

References[]

^ "Play Prémios da Música Portuguesa - Premiamos e celebramos a música portuguesa". Play - Prémios da Música Portuguesa (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.
^ Clemente, Sónia (2019-03-14). "Play – Prémios da Música Portuguesa: primeira edição em abril". Record FM (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.
^ "Prémios da Música Portuguesa são entregues hoje". www.jn.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.
^ Lusa, Agência. "Play – Prémios da Música Portuguesa são entregues hoje em cerimónia em Lisboa". Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

[1] "Play Prémios da Música Portuguesa - Premiamos e celebramos a música portuguesa". Play - Prémios da Música Portuguesa (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

[2] Clemente, Sónia (2019-03-14). "Play – Prémios da Música Portuguesa: primeira edição em abril". Record FM (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

[3] "Prémios da Música Portuguesa são entregues hoje". www.jn.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

[4] Lusa, Agência. "Play – Prémios da Música Portuguesa são entregues hoje em cerimónia em Lisboa". Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

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