The xx win Xfm New Music Award

Global Radio's XFM has announced that The xx has won its highly prestigious XFM New Music Award for their debut album xx.

Thousands of XFM listeners voted online at xfm.co.uk for their favourite UK debut album from last year. The ten finalists were then judged by a panel of leading musicians and industry experts who chose xx as The Best British Debut Album of 2009. The xx beat stiff competition from other bands and artists such as Florence and The Machine, La Roux, Mumford and Sons and White Lies to scoop the third XFM New Music Award.

This year's judging panel included XFM's Dave Berry, John Kennedy and Clint Boon, as well as Carl Barat from Dirty Pretty Things/The Libertines, Tom Smith from Editors, The Charlatans' Tim Burgess, plus Tom Clarke, lead singer of The Enemy, who won XFM's first ever New Music Award for 2007. They were also joined by industry producers and experts such as John Leckie who produced legendary albums by bands such as The Stone Roses and Radiohead, along with MTV's Digital Media Director David Morgendorff.

In the latest radio industry figures released by RAJAR *, 934,000 people are tuning in to XFM across the UK each week.

XFM broadcasts on 104.9 FM in London, 97.7 FM in Manchester and across the UK on digital radio, digital TV and online at xfm.co.uk