In 2014 numerous indie and alternative musicians, bands and their albums have been nominated and awarded by prestigious organizations such as the Grammy Awards, Brit Awards, Mercury Prize, Juno Award and MTV Europe Music Award reflecting their artistic merit and impact. These awards recognized among others achievements in songwriting, production and musical innovation.
In the table below, we present the winner and nominees.
| Artist | Album | Song/Single | Grammy Best Alternative Music Album | Mercury Prize | MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative | American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist | Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year | Juno Award Adult Alternative Album of the Year | IMPALA European Independent Album Of The Year | AIR Awards Best Independent Artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. C. Newman | Shut Down the Streets | nominated | ||||||||
| ALT-J | This Is All Yours | nominated | ||||||||
| Anna Calvi | One Breath | nominated | ||||||||
| Aphex Twin | Syro | nominated | ||||||||
| Arcade Fire | Reflektor | won | ||||||||
| Arctic Monkeys | nominated | |||||||||
| Basia Bulat | Tall Tall Shadow | nominated | ||||||||
| Bastille | nominated | |||||||||
| Batida | Dois | nominated | ||||||||
| Bombay Bicycle Club | So Long, See You Tomorrow | nominated | ||||||||
| Broken Twin | May | nominated | ||||||||
| Caribou | Our Love | won | ||||||||
| Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots | nominated | ||||||||
| Dans Dans | 3 | nominated | ||||||||
| East India Youth | Total Strife Forever | nominated | ||||||||
| Emis Killa | Mercurio | nominated | ||||||||
| Fai Baba | Savage Dreamer | nominated | ||||||||
| Fall Out Boy | nominated | |||||||||
| FKA twigs | LP1 | nominated | nominated | |||||||
| Frankie Chavez | Heart And Spine | nominated | ||||||||
| Franz Ferdinand | nominated | |||||||||
| GoGo Penguin | V2.0 | nominated | ||||||||
| Hayden | Us Alone | nominated | ||||||||
| Highasakite | Silent Treatment | nominated | ||||||||
| Iceage | Plowing into the Field of Love | nominated | ||||||||
| Imagine Dragons | won | |||||||||
| Jennie Abrahamson | Gemini Gemini | nominated | ||||||||
| Jungle | Jungle | nominated | ||||||||
| Kae Tempest | Everybody Down | nominated | ||||||||
| Lorde | nominated | |||||||||
| Neko Case | The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You | nominated | ||||||||
| Nick Mulvey | First Mind | nominated | ||||||||
| Nina Romic | Stablo | nominated | ||||||||
| Nine Inch Nails | Hesitation Marks | nominated | ||||||||
| Ocho Macho | De Puta Madre | nominated | ||||||||
| Paramore | nominated | |||||||||
| Pepe Willberg | Pepe & Saimaa | nominated | ||||||||
| Polar Bear | In Each and Every One | nominated | ||||||||
| Rah Rah | The Poet's Dead | nominated | ||||||||
| Ron Sexsmith | Forever Endeavour | won | ||||||||
| Royal Blood | Royal Blood | nominated | ||||||||
| Royal Canoe | Today We're Believers | nominated | ||||||||
| Sleaford Mods | Divide and Exit | nominated | ||||||||
| Tame Impala | Lonerism | nominated | ||||||||
| The Darcys | Warring | nominated | ||||||||
| THE DØ | Shake Shook Shaken | nominated | ||||||||
| The National | Trouble Will Find Me | nominated | ||||||||
| The Notwist | Close To The Glass | nominated | ||||||||
| The Sadies | Internal Sounds | nominated | ||||||||
| Thirty Seconds to Mars | won | |||||||||
| Tremenda Trementina | Sangre Pop | nominated | ||||||||
| Twin Atlantic | Greate Divide | nominated | ||||||||
| Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | won | ||||||||
| Within Temptation | Hydra | nominated | ||||||||
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan | UZU | nominated | ||||||||
| Young Fathers | Dead | won | nominated | |||||||
| Courtney Barnett | won | |||||||||
| Chet Faker | nominated | |||||||||
| John Butler Trio | nominated | |||||||||
| Sia | nominated | |||||||||
| Violent Soho | nominated |