European Border Breakers Award

European Border Breakers Award
Awarded for	Award to stimulate cross border success of debuting European artists
Date	January (Eurosonic Noorderslag opening night)
Location	Oosterpoort Theatre, Groningen
Country	The Netherlands
Presented by	Eurosonic Noorderslag European Commission
Hosted by	Jools Holland
First awarded	2004
Last awarded	2016
Official website	ebba-awards.eu
Television/Radio coverage
Network	NOS/NTR, broadcast through NET3

Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognise the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year. Winners of a European Border Breakers Award include Adele, The Common Linnets, Era Istrefi, Dua Lipa, Aura Dione, Anna Calvi, Inna, Tokio Hotel, The Baseballs, Helena Paparizou, Zaz, Kerli, Lykke Li, Milow, Katie Melua, Damien Rice, Caro Emerald, Stromae, Sunrise Avenue and Mumford and Sons.

The EBBA Awards were launched by the European Commission and are a European Union award. Since 2009, the awards are organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag and the award is presented at the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival.

The artists or groups nominated for the European Border Breakers Awards are selected on the basis of the following criteria:

Since 2010, an online vote takes place to choose which EBBA Award winner will receive the Public Choice Award, on top of the "regular" award. The first winner was Belgian singer-songwriter Milow. The German rock & roll band The Baseballs won in 2011.Selah Sue from Belgium won the prize in 2012.

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