This is a comprehensive listing of the awards and nominations received by Scottish singer KT Tunstall. In her breakthrough year, 2005, she received a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, which eventually went to Antony and the Johnsons; and she won the Best Track of the year award from Q magazine for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree".
In January 2006, she received three BRIT nominations—best British Live Act, best British Breakthrough Act, and best British Female Solo Artist—eventually gaining the award for best British Female Solo Artist, remarking that she wished to share it with fellow nominee Kate Bush. Later the same month she was given a European Border Breakers Award, which recognises the top-selling European Union artists outside their home country. Also in 2006, she won the Ivor Novello Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Suddenly I See", along with Scottish Style Awards "Most Stylish Band or Musician".
She gained more nominations in 2007 and 2008: a 2007 Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (the award went to Christina Aguilera for "Ain't No Other Man"), and another BRIT nomination for British Female Solo Artist, the award she had won in 2006.
List of awards and nominations Year Organisation Award Nominated work Result2005Q AwardsBest Track"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" BBC Sound of 2005 Sound of 2005 (Sixth) Herself rowspan="2" Mercury Music PrizeAlbum of the Year Eye to the Telescope 2006European Border Breakers Awards UK rowspan="4" Ivor Novello AwardsBest Song Musically and Lyrically"Suddenly I See" Scottish Style Awards Most Stylish Band or Musician Herself Brit Awards Best British Female Artist Best British Breakthroughrowspan="5" Best British Live ActWorld Music Awards World's Best New Artist World's Best Pop/Rock Artist 2007Grammy AwardsBest Female Pop Vocal Performance "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" BMI London Awards Pop Award rowspan="4" "Suddenly I See" 2008 "Other Side of the World"Brit Awards Best British Female ArtistHerself UK Music Video Awards Best Telecine "If Only" rowspan="2" 2016Music Week AwardsInspirational Artist of the YearHerself 2017 Hollywood Music in Media Awards Original Song – Animated Film "You Will Always Find Me in Your Heart" 2024Ivor Novello AwardOutstanding Song Collection with PRS for MusicHerself
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