2010 Hot Press Readers' Poll results

Best Polling Act

1. U2
2. Florence and the Machine
3. Imelda May
4. Glen Hansard/ Swell Season
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Bell X1
7. Paolo Nutini
8. The XX
9. The Coronas
10. Bruce Springsteen

IRISH

Irish Group

1. U2
2. BellX1
3. Snow Patrol
4. The Script
5. Delorentos
6. Swell Season
7. Villagers
8. The Coronas
9. The Blizzards
10. Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club

Irish Male

1. Glen Hansard
2. Bono
3. Mick Flannery
4. Danny O'Donoghue
5. Damien Dempsey
6. Gary Lightbody
7. Conor O'Brien
8. Mundy
9. Jerry Fish

10. Duke Special

Irish Female
1. Imelda May
2. Lisa Hannigan
3. Laura Izibor
4. Wallis Bird

5. Enya
6. Julie Feeney
7. Gemma Hayes
8. Sinead O'Connor
9. Dolores O'Riordan
10. Cathy Davey

Irish Single/Track

1. Imelda May: ‘Big Bad Handsome Man’
2. U2: ‘I'll Go Crazy’
3. The Coronas: ‘Listen Dear’
4. The Blizzards: ‘Buy It Sell It’
5. Villagers: ‘On A Sunlit Stage’
6. Laura Izibor: ‘Shine’
7. Julie Feeney: ‘Impossibly Beautiful’
8. Christy Moore: ‘The Ballad of Ruby Walsh’
9. U2: ‘Magnificent’
10. Lisa Hannigan: ‘I Don’t Know’

Irish Album

1. U2 - No Line On The Horizon
2. Swell Season - Strict Joy
3. Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runaway
4. Delorentos - You Can Make Sound
5. The Coronas - Tony Was An Ex-Con
6. The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method
7. Christy Moore - Listen
8. Julie Feeney - Pages
9. Laura Izibor - Let The Truth Be Told
10 Wallis Bird – New Boots

Most Promising

1. Villagers
2. Codes
3. Heathers
4. Bi-Polar Empire
5. And So I Watch You From Afar
6. Valerie Francis
7. Channel One
8. The Infomatics
9. RSAG

10. Miss Paula Flynn

Live Act

1. U2
2. The Script
3. Imelda May
4. Snow Patrol
5. Lisa Hannigan
6. Damien Dempsey
7. The Blizzards
8. The Coronas
9. Laura Izibor
10. Delorentos

Songwriter

1. Mick Flannery
2. Damien Dempsey
3. Bono/Edge
4. Glen Hansard
5. Gary Lightbody
6. Fionn Regan
7. Laura Izibor
8. Conor O'Brien
9. Julie Feeney

10. David Geraghty

Club DJ/Dance/Electronica
1. Messiah J and the Expert
2. Maverick Sabre
3. Super Extra Bonus Party
4. David Holmes
5. Donncha Costello
6. Japanese Popstars

7. Orla Feeney
8. John O’Callaghan
9. DJ Tu Ki
10. Arveene

Irish Folk Artist

1. Mick Flannery
2. Kila
3. Christy Moore
4. Damien Dempsey
5. Sharon Shannon
6. John Spillane
7. Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill
8. The High Kings

9. Davy Spillane
10. Clannad

Irish Comedian

1. Tommy Tiernan
2. Dylan Moran
3. Dara O'Briain
4. Dave McSavage
5. Dave O'Doherty
6. Ed Byrne
7. Kevin McAleer
8. Jimeoin
9. Patt Shortt
10. PJ Gallagher

Debut Album

1. The Chapters - Perfect Stranger
2. Codes - Trees Dream in Algebra
3. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
4. The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method
5. Valerie Francis - Slow Dynamo
6. Channel One: Sound To Light
7. Miss Paula Flynn – Miss Paula Flynn
8. Sanzkrit – After The Wedding

9. Herm - Monsters
10. Panda Kopanda - This Hope Will Kill Us

INTERNATIONAL

International Band

1. Arctic Monkeys
2. MGMT
3. Fleet Foxes

International Male

1. Paolo Nutini
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Morrissey International

Female

1. Florence Welch
2. Lady Gaga
3. Natasha Khan

International Single
1. Florence & The Machine – ‘You've Got The Love’
2. Lady Gaga – ‘Poker Face’
3. Animal Collective – ‘My Girls’

International Album
1. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
2. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

3. Lady Gaga - The Fame/Fame Monster

International Most Promising

1. The XX
2. Marina & The Diamonds
3. Animal Collective

International Live

1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Muse
3. Greenday

International Songwriter
1. Peter Doherty
2. Morrissey
3. Bruce Springsteen

Club DJ/Dance/Electronica

1. Tiesto
2. David Guetta
3. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

International Folk/Trad

1. Alison Krauss
2. Bon Iver
3. Seasick Steve

International Comedian

1. Eddie Izzard
2. Peter Kay
3. Ricky Gervais

International Debut

1. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
2. The XX - The XX
3. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

GENERAL

Love of the Year
1. U2 360º Tour
2. Electric Picnic
3. Oxegen

DJ/ Broadcaster

1. Michelle Doherty (Phantom FM)
2. Ray Foley (Today FM)
3. Dave Fanning (2FM)
4. Nikki Hayes (2FM)
5. Alison Curtis (Today FM)
6. Tom Dunne (Newstalk)
7. Dan Hegarty (2FM)
8. Paul McAloon (Today FM)
9. Colm O’Sullivan (Red FM)
10. David ‘Rigsy’ O’Reilly (Radio Ulster)

Film

1. Up
2. 500 Days of Summer
3. The Damned United

TV Programme

1. When Under Ether
2. Skins
3. The Savage Eye

Loathe of The Year

1. Thierry Henry's Handball
2. Bankers/NAMA
3. X-Factor