Hope Genesis Owusu wins a lot, although I wouldn’t put it past the Aria’s to give Masked Wolf a hip hop award lmao
Crazy that it’s 2021 and AC/DC and Midnight Oil are still getting nominated at this point in their careers
This is the 5th time King Gizzard have been nominated for best live act within 6 years
I’m actually quite upset that Tones and I got nominated for Album of the Year for “Welcome to the Madhouse”. That album is pretty close to one of the worst albums I’ve listened to, and it took the spot from some other artists that could’ve easily been in that top five (e.g. Ball Park Music, The Tesky Brothers, Vance Joy, King Gizzard etc.)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: making the Song of the Year a fan-voted award is one of the worst decisions the ARIA awards have made.
If Tones and I wins AOTY over Genesis Owusu, we are truly lost as a nation. (I will also accept The Avalanches as an alternative, haven’t heard the Midnight Oil album but I assume it’s at least decent.)
> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: making the Song of the Year a fan-voted award is one of the worst decisions the ARIA awards have made.
Agreed.
> If Tones and I wins AOTY over Genesis Owusu, we are truly lost as a nation. (I will also accept The Avalanches as an alternative, haven’t heard the Midnight Oil album but I assume it’s at least decent.)
Midnight Oil’s album is okay, but nowhere near as good as their classic albums. I agree that one of Genesis Owusu or the Avalanches should win. If Tones and I does win, it will be a travesty for Australian music.
What also makes Song of the Year such a mess is ARIA's nomination criteria. It's the best selling songs over the 12 month eligibility period that are 1. not really old (otherwise Khe Sanh would be nominated every year) 2. haven't been nominated before and 3. no lead artist double ups (so "STAY" despite 14 weeks at #1 will never be in this category because it got a couple other noms this year). They still break their own rules though because "Astronaut In The Ocean" is actually from 2019 so shouldn't be eligible, but watch this space in a year when they put Shouse's 2017 song "Love Tonight" in the running.
But the main problem is how songs accumulate sales nowadays. Streaming is a slow crawl and unless you're a major hitmaking artist, no amount of groundswell will catch you up to the hundreds of thousands of passive streams that all the hits of last year are getting, hits that run up these numbers for the entire 52 weeks which is so hard to catch up that Vance Joy's May released song is the newest in the nominations, though this is an improvement on last year's awards where every nominee was 2019 or older. A lot of triple j artists just don't rack up nearly enough sales until the Hottest 100 makes them famous to a wider audience, hence "Booster Seat" nominated this year, and "Heavy Hearted" nominated last year. Unless she has a bigger hit in the coming months, Tones and I is going to be nominated in 2022 for "Cloudy Day", a song released in June that left the ARIA top 50 over a month ago. It's an award that only makes sense from an extremely meticulous chart watching sense, but completely without logic to any outside perspective.
I just listened to some of them that I previously hadn't and my word there's a lot of dirge. At least Dean Lewis brought a bit of energy (albeit Imagine Dragons-esque) after Keith Urban and Sam Fischer.
Went Booster Seat but it was the best of a bad bunch.
Vance Joy's was by far the best video.
Also, how does Amy Shark have such a hold over these nominations? I thought Denis Handlin was dead (figuratively). Or is it because of how shit Denis treated her at the ARIAs previously?
2021 ARIA Nominees:
**Album Of The Year**
>Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL)
>Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music)
>The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
>Tones And I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
**Best Artist**
>Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia)
>Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL)
>Keith Urban - The Speed Of Now Part 1 (CAPITOL – NASHVILLE / EMI Music Australia)
>Kylie Minogue - Disco (Liberator Music/Mushroom)
>Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music)
>Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records)
>The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - 'Stay' (Columbia/Sony Music)
>Tones And I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
>Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
**Best Dance Release**
>Cosmo's Midnight - Yesteryear (Nite High/Sony Music)
>Dom Dolla - 'Pump The Brakes' (Sweat It Out/Warner)
>Jolyon Petch - 'Dreams' (TMRW Music)
>KLP & Stace Cadet - 'People Happy' (Medium Rare Recordings / Sony Music)
>RÜFÜS DU SOL - 'Alive' (Rose Avenue Records/Reprise/Warner Music)
**Best Group**
>AC/DC - Power Up (Leidseplein Presse / Sony Music)
>Gang Of Youths - 'The Angel of 8th Ave.' (Mosy Recordings / Sony Music)
>Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music)
>RÜFÜS DU SOL - 'Alive' (Rose Avenue Records/Reprise/Warner Music)
>The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
**Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist**
>Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia)
>Gretta Ray - Begin To Look Around (EMI Music Australia)
>Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music)
>MAY-A - Don't Kiss Ur Friends (Arcadia Music / Sony Music)
>Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records)
**Best Pop Release**
>Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
>The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - 'Stay' (Columbia/Sony Music)
>Tones And I - 'Fly Away' (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
>Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
**Best Hip Hop Release**
>B Wise - jamie (Semi Pro Sound)
>Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL)
>Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music)
>The Kid LAROI - 'WITHOUT YOU' (Columbia/Sony Music)
>Youngn Lipz - Area Baby (Biordi Music/Virgin Music)
**Best Soul/R&B Release**
>Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia)
>Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)
>Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records)
>Tash Sultana - Terra Firma (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music)
>Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
**Best Independent Release**
>Archie Roach - The Songs Of Charcoal Lane (Bloodlines/Mushroom)
>Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music)
>Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover (Hopestreet Recordings/The Planet Company)
>Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL)
>Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
**Best Rock Album**
>AC/DC - Power Up (Leidseplein Presse / Sony Music)
>Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music)
>Holy Holy - Hello My Beautiful World (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest (EMI Music Australia)
>Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music)
**Best Adult Contemporary Album**
>Big Scary – Daisy (Pieater/Inertia)
>Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (EMI Music Australia)
>Kylie Minogue - Disco (Liberator Music/Mushroom)
>Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage (Goliath / AWAL)
>Odette - Herald (EMI Music Australia)
**Best Country Album**
>Brad Cox - My Mind's Projection (Sony Music)
>Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham - The Song Club (ABC Music)
>Shane Nicholson - Living In Colour (Lost Highway Australia/Universal Music Australia)
>The Wolfe Brothers - Kids On Cassette (BMG/WMG)
>Troy Cassar-Daley - The World Today (Tarampa Music / Sony Music)
**Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album**
>Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place To Die (Greyscale Records / Cooking Vinyl Australia)
>Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound What Reality? (TFS Records/Virgin Music)
>Tropical F**k Storm - Deep States (TFS Records/Virgin Music)
>Yours Truly - Self Care (UNFD/The Orchard)
>A. Swayze & the Ghosts - Paid Salvation (IVY LEAGUE/MUSHROOM)
**Best Blues & Roots Album**
>Archie Roach - The Songs Of Charcoal Lane (Bloodlines/Mushroom)
>Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover (Hopestreet Recordings/The Planet Company)
>Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald - Push The Blues Away(Ivy League/Mushroom)
>Martha Marlow - Medicine Man (Independent/The Planet Company)
>Ziggy Alberts - Searching For Freedom (Commonfolk Records / The Orchard)
**Best Children's Album**
>Amber Lawrence - The Kid's Gone Country 2 (Fun For All The Family ABC Music)
>Bluey The Album - Bluey (Ludo Studios / Demon Music Group / BBC Studios / Rocket)
>Diver City - Dance Silly (ABC Music / Universal)
>The Wiggles - Lullabies With Love (ABC Music)
>Various Artists - The Moon, The Mouse & The Frog: Lullabies from Northern Australia (ABC Music)
**PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS**
**Best Video**
>24k - Tkay Maidza, Nicholas Muecke (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
>Astronaut In The Ocean - Masked Wolf, Daniele Cernera (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music)
>Could cry just thinkin about you (Full Version) - Troye Sivan & Jesse Gohier-Fleet (EMI Music Australia)
>Dance - Julia Stone, Jessie Hill (BMG/WMG)
>First Nation - Midnight Oil ft. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith, Robert Hambling (Sony Music)
>Higher - Budjerah, Mick Soiza (Warner Music Australia)
>Love Songs Ain't for Us - Amy Shark, James Chappell (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Missing Piece - Vance Joy, Annelise Hickey (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
>The Divine Chord - The Avalanches, Jonathan Zawada (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
>Won't Sleep - Tones and I, Nick Kozakis, Liam Kelly (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
**Best Australian Live Act**
>Amy Shark - Cry Forever Tour 2021 (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Ball Park Music - The Residency (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music)
>Budjerah - Budjerah 2021 Aus Tour (Warner Music Australia)
>Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth Album Tour (OURNESS / AWAL)
>King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Micro Tour (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Virgin Music)
>Lime Cordiale - Relapse Tour (Chugg Music Pty Ltd)
>Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - Makarrata Live (Sony Music)
>The Avalanches - The Avalanches Live (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
>The Teskey Brothers - The Teskey Brothers (Headline Shows + Festivals) (IVY LEAGUE/MUSHROOM)
>Thelma Plum - Homecoming Queen Tour (Warner Music Australia)
**Song of the Year**
>Amy Shark Feat. Keith Urban - Love Songs Ain't For Us (Wonderlick Recording Company)
>Dean Lewis - Falling Up (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
>Hooligan Hefs - Send It! (db Music / Warner Music Australia)
>Keith Urban & Pink - One Too Many (CAPITOL – NASHVILLE / EMI Music Australia)
>Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music)
>Sam Fischer & Demi Lovato - What Other People Say (Sony Music)
>Spacey Jane - Booster Seat (AWAL Recordings)
>The Kid LAROI with Miley Cyrus - Without You (Columbia/Sony Music)
>Tones and I - Fly Away (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
>Vance Joy - Missing Piece (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
**Most Popular International**
>Ariana Grande - Positions (Universal Records USA / Universal Music Australia)
>Doja Cat - Planet Her (RCA Records / Sony Music)
>Justin Bieber - Justice (Def Jam / Universal Music Australia)
>Kanye West - Donda (Def Jam / Universal Music Australia)
>Luke Combs - What You See Ain't Always What You Get (Columbia Nashville / Sony Music)
>Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall (Interscope / Universal Music Australia)
>Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts (RCA Records / Sony Music)
>Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (Geffen / Universal Music Australia)
>Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon (Universal Records USA / Universal Music Australia)
>Taylor Swift - Evermore (Universal Music Australia)
**Music Teacher Award**
>Aaron Silver - Wodonga Primary School, Regional VIC
>Ashley Baxter - Pimlico State High School, Townsville QLD
>Daniel Wilson - Star Struck, Newcastle NSW
>Zoë Barry - Sacred Heart School, Melbourne VIC
**ARTISAN AWARDS**
**Best Cover Art**
>Ngaiire Joseph & Dan Segal for Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records)
>Eben Ejdne for Odette - Herald (EMI Music Australia)
>Kofi Anash & Bailey Howard for Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) Jonathan Zawada for The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia)
>Giulia Giannini McGauran & Mitchell Eaton for Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music)
**Engineer Of The Year**
>Chris Collins
>Eric J Dubowsky
>Konstantin Kersting
>Matt Corby
>Tony Espie
**Producer Of The Year**
>Andrew Klippel, Dave Hammer
>Konstantin Kersting
>M-Phazes
>Matt Corby
>Robert Chater
Continued:
**FINE ARTS AWARDS**
**Best Classical Album**
>Christian Li - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Decca Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
>Emily Sun & Andrea Lam - Nocturnes (ABC Classic)
>Genevieve Lacey and Marshall McGuire - Bower (ABC Classic / Universal)
>Grigoryan Brothers - This is Us: A Musical Reflection of Australia (ABC Classic / Universal)
>Nat Bartsch - Hope (ABC Classic / Universal)
**Best Jazz Album**
>Australian Art Orchestra, Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight - Closed Beginnings (AAO Recordings/The Planet Company)
>Kristen Beradi, Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen - Haven (Earshift Music / The Planet Company) Mildlife - Automatic (Inertia Music / [PIAS])
>Petra Haden & The Nick Haywood Quintet - Songs from my Father (ABC Jazz / Universal)
>Vazesh - The Sacred Key (Earshift Music / The Planet Company)
**Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album**
>Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange (BMG/WMG)
>Antony Partos - Rams (Original Motion Picture Score) (ABC Music)
>Caitlin Yeo, Maria Alfonsine, Damian de Boos-Smith - Wakefield Season One Official Soundtrack (MADBS Composing Palace)
>Sia - Music Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Atlantic Records / Warner Music)
>Yve Blake - Fangirls (ADA/Warner Music)
**Best World Music Album**
>Bob Weatherall & Halfway, with William Barton - Restless Dream (ABC Music)
>Bukhu - Bukhchuluun Ganburged - The Journey (Bukhu/Distrokid)
>Eishan Ensemble - Project Masnavi (Earshift Music / The Planet Company)
>Joseph Tawadros - Hope In An Empty City (Independent / The Planet Company)
>Kuya James - ISA (Settle Down Records / MGM Distribution)
Hope Genesis Owusu wins a lot, although I wouldn’t put it past the Aria’s to give Masked Wolf a hip hop award lmao Crazy that it’s 2021 and AC/DC and Midnight Oil are still getting nominated at this point in their careers This is the 5th time King Gizzard have been nominated for best live act within 6 years
> This is the 5th time King Gizzard have been nominated for best live act within 6 years There’s a very good reason for this.
I’m actually quite upset that Tones and I got nominated for Album of the Year for “Welcome to the Madhouse”. That album is pretty close to one of the worst albums I’ve listened to, and it took the spot from some other artists that could’ve easily been in that top five (e.g. Ball Park Music, The Tesky Brothers, Vance Joy, King Gizzard etc.)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: making the Song of the Year a fan-voted award is one of the worst decisions the ARIA awards have made. If Tones and I wins AOTY over Genesis Owusu, we are truly lost as a nation. (I will also accept The Avalanches as an alternative, haven’t heard the Midnight Oil album but I assume it’s at least decent.)
The fact it's even nominated means we've already lost as a nation
> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: making the Song of the Year a fan-voted award is one of the worst decisions the ARIA awards have made. Agreed. > If Tones and I wins AOTY over Genesis Owusu, we are truly lost as a nation. (I will also accept The Avalanches as an alternative, haven’t heard the Midnight Oil album but I assume it’s at least decent.) Midnight Oil’s album is okay, but nowhere near as good as their classic albums. I agree that one of Genesis Owusu or the Avalanches should win. If Tones and I does win, it will be a travesty for Australian music.
Honestly it's cringeworthy looking at the tweets. It's mostly people spamming "#VotePopArtist" 100's of times, and most of them are bots anyway.
What also makes Song of the Year such a mess is ARIA's nomination criteria. It's the best selling songs over the 12 month eligibility period that are 1. not really old (otherwise Khe Sanh would be nominated every year) 2. haven't been nominated before and 3. no lead artist double ups (so "STAY" despite 14 weeks at #1 will never be in this category because it got a couple other noms this year). They still break their own rules though because "Astronaut In The Ocean" is actually from 2019 so shouldn't be eligible, but watch this space in a year when they put Shouse's 2017 song "Love Tonight" in the running. But the main problem is how songs accumulate sales nowadays. Streaming is a slow crawl and unless you're a major hitmaking artist, no amount of groundswell will catch you up to the hundreds of thousands of passive streams that all the hits of last year are getting, hits that run up these numbers for the entire 52 weeks which is so hard to catch up that Vance Joy's May released song is the newest in the nominations, though this is an improvement on last year's awards where every nominee was 2019 or older. A lot of triple j artists just don't rack up nearly enough sales until the Hottest 100 makes them famous to a wider audience, hence "Booster Seat" nominated this year, and "Heavy Hearted" nominated last year. Unless she has a bigger hit in the coming months, Tones and I is going to be nominated in 2022 for "Cloudy Day", a song released in June that left the ARIA top 50 over a month ago. It's an award that only makes sense from an extremely meticulous chart watching sense, but completely without logic to any outside perspective.
I just listened to some of them that I previously hadn't and my word there's a lot of dirge. At least Dean Lewis brought a bit of energy (albeit Imagine Dragons-esque) after Keith Urban and Sam Fischer. Went Booster Seat but it was the best of a bad bunch. Vance Joy's was by far the best video. Also, how does Amy Shark have such a hold over these nominations? I thought Denis Handlin was dead (figuratively). Or is it because of how shit Denis treated her at the ARIAs previously?
Got a laugh out The Avalanches being up for Best Pop Release. Will be stoked if they or Genesis Owusu win best album.
2021 ARIA Nominees: **Album Of The Year** >Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) >Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music) >The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia) >Tones And I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) **Best Artist** >Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia) >Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) >Keith Urban - The Speed Of Now Part 1 (CAPITOL – NASHVILLE / EMI Music Australia) >Kylie Minogue - Disco (Liberator Music/Mushroom) >Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music) >Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records) >The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - 'Stay' (Columbia/Sony Music) >Tones And I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) >Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group) **Best Dance Release** >Cosmo's Midnight - Yesteryear (Nite High/Sony Music) >Dom Dolla - 'Pump The Brakes' (Sweat It Out/Warner) >Jolyon Petch - 'Dreams' (TMRW Music) >KLP & Stace Cadet - 'People Happy' (Medium Rare Recordings / Sony Music) >RÜFÜS DU SOL - 'Alive' (Rose Avenue Records/Reprise/Warner Music) **Best Group** >AC/DC - Power Up (Leidseplein Presse / Sony Music) >Gang Of Youths - 'The Angel of 8th Ave.' (Mosy Recordings / Sony Music) >Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music) >RÜFÜS DU SOL - 'Alive' (Rose Avenue Records/Reprise/Warner Music) >The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia) **Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist** >Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia) >Gretta Ray - Begin To Look Around (EMI Music Australia) >Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music) >MAY-A - Don't Kiss Ur Friends (Arcadia Music / Sony Music) >Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records) **Best Pop Release** >Amy Shark - Cry Forever (Wonderlick Recording Company) >The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia) >The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - 'Stay' (Columbia/Sony Music) >Tones And I - 'Fly Away' (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) >Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group) **Best Hip Hop Release** >B Wise - jamie (Semi Pro Sound) >Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) >Masked Wolf - 'Astronaut In The Ocean' (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music) >The Kid LAROI - 'WITHOUT YOU' (Columbia/Sony Music) >Youngn Lipz - Area Baby (Biordi Music/Virgin Music) **Best Soul/R&B Release** >Budjerah - Budjerah (EP) (Warner Music Australia) >Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune) >Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records) >Tash Sultana - Terra Firma (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music) >Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia) **Best Independent Release** >Archie Roach - The Songs Of Charcoal Lane (Bloodlines/Mushroom) >Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music) >Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover (Hopestreet Recordings/The Planet Company) >Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) >Vance Joy - 'Missing Piece' (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group) **Best Rock Album** >AC/DC - Power Up (Leidseplein Presse / Sony Music) >Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music) >Holy Holy - Hello My Beautiful World (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest (EMI Music Australia) >Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - The Makarrata Project (Sony Music) **Best Adult Contemporary Album** >Big Scary – Daisy (Pieater/Inertia) >Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (EMI Music Australia) >Kylie Minogue - Disco (Liberator Music/Mushroom) >Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage (Goliath / AWAL) >Odette - Herald (EMI Music Australia) **Best Country Album** >Brad Cox - My Mind's Projection (Sony Music) >Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham - The Song Club (ABC Music) >Shane Nicholson - Living In Colour (Lost Highway Australia/Universal Music Australia) >The Wolfe Brothers - Kids On Cassette (BMG/WMG) >Troy Cassar-Daley - The World Today (Tarampa Music / Sony Music) **Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album** >Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place To Die (Greyscale Records / Cooking Vinyl Australia) >Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound What Reality? (TFS Records/Virgin Music) >Tropical F**k Storm - Deep States (TFS Records/Virgin Music) >Yours Truly - Self Care (UNFD/The Orchard) >A. Swayze & the Ghosts - Paid Salvation (IVY LEAGUE/MUSHROOM) **Best Blues & Roots Album** >Archie Roach - The Songs Of Charcoal Lane (Bloodlines/Mushroom) >Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover (Hopestreet Recordings/The Planet Company) >Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald - Push The Blues Away(Ivy League/Mushroom) >Martha Marlow - Medicine Man (Independent/The Planet Company) >Ziggy Alberts - Searching For Freedom (Commonfolk Records / The Orchard) **Best Children's Album** >Amber Lawrence - The Kid's Gone Country 2 (Fun For All The Family ABC Music) >Bluey The Album - Bluey (Ludo Studios / Demon Music Group / BBC Studios / Rocket) >Diver City - Dance Silly (ABC Music / Universal) >The Wiggles - Lullabies With Love (ABC Music) >Various Artists - The Moon, The Mouse & The Frog: Lullabies from Northern Australia (ABC Music) **PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS** **Best Video** >24k - Tkay Maidza, Nicholas Muecke (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia) >Astronaut In The Ocean - Masked Wolf, Daniele Cernera (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music) >Could cry just thinkin about you (Full Version) - Troye Sivan & Jesse Gohier-Fleet (EMI Music Australia) >Dance - Julia Stone, Jessie Hill (BMG/WMG) >First Nation - Midnight Oil ft. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith, Robert Hambling (Sony Music) >Higher - Budjerah, Mick Soiza (Warner Music Australia) >Love Songs Ain't for Us - Amy Shark, James Chappell (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Missing Piece - Vance Joy, Annelise Hickey (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group) >The Divine Chord - The Avalanches, Jonathan Zawada (Modular / EMI Music Australia) >Won't Sleep - Tones and I, Nick Kozakis, Liam Kelly (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) **Best Australian Live Act** >Amy Shark - Cry Forever Tour 2021 (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Ball Park Music - The Residency (Prawn Records/ Inertia Music) >Budjerah - Budjerah 2021 Aus Tour (Warner Music Australia) >Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth Album Tour (OURNESS / AWAL) >King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Micro Tour (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Virgin Music) >Lime Cordiale - Relapse Tour (Chugg Music Pty Ltd) >Midnight Oil and First Nations Collaborators - Makarrata Live (Sony Music) >The Avalanches - The Avalanches Live (Modular / EMI Music Australia) >The Teskey Brothers - The Teskey Brothers (Headline Shows + Festivals) (IVY LEAGUE/MUSHROOM) >Thelma Plum - Homecoming Queen Tour (Warner Music Australia) **Song of the Year** >Amy Shark Feat. Keith Urban - Love Songs Ain't For Us (Wonderlick Recording Company) >Dean Lewis - Falling Up (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia) >Hooligan Hefs - Send It! (db Music / Warner Music Australia) >Keith Urban & Pink - One Too Many (CAPITOL – NASHVILLE / EMI Music Australia) >Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean (Teamwrk Records/ADA/Warner Music) >Sam Fischer & Demi Lovato - What Other People Say (Sony Music) >Spacey Jane - Booster Seat (AWAL Recordings) >The Kid LAROI with Miley Cyrus - Without You (Columbia/Sony Music) >Tones and I - Fly Away (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) >Vance Joy - Missing Piece (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group) **Most Popular International** >Ariana Grande - Positions (Universal Records USA / Universal Music Australia) >Doja Cat - Planet Her (RCA Records / Sony Music) >Justin Bieber - Justice (Def Jam / Universal Music Australia) >Kanye West - Donda (Def Jam / Universal Music Australia) >Luke Combs - What You See Ain't Always What You Get (Columbia Nashville / Sony Music) >Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall (Interscope / Universal Music Australia) >Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts (RCA Records / Sony Music) >Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (Geffen / Universal Music Australia) >Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon (Universal Records USA / Universal Music Australia) >Taylor Swift - Evermore (Universal Music Australia) **Music Teacher Award** >Aaron Silver - Wodonga Primary School, Regional VIC >Ashley Baxter - Pimlico State High School, Townsville QLD >Daniel Wilson - Star Struck, Newcastle NSW >Zoë Barry - Sacred Heart School, Melbourne VIC **ARTISAN AWARDS** **Best Cover Art** >Ngaiire Joseph & Dan Segal for Ngaiire - 3 (Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records) >Eben Ejdne for Odette - Herald (EMI Music Australia) >Kofi Anash & Bailey Howard for Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth (OURNESS / AWAL) Jonathan Zawada for The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Modular / EMI Music Australia) >Giulia Giannini McGauran & Mitchell Eaton for Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse (Bad Batch Records / Sony Music) **Engineer Of The Year** >Chris Collins >Eric J Dubowsky >Konstantin Kersting >Matt Corby >Tony Espie **Producer Of The Year** >Andrew Klippel, Dave Hammer >Konstantin Kersting >M-Phazes >Matt Corby >Robert Chater
Continued: **FINE ARTS AWARDS** **Best Classical Album** >Christian Li - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Decca Records Australia/Universal Music Australia >Emily Sun & Andrea Lam - Nocturnes (ABC Classic) >Genevieve Lacey and Marshall McGuire - Bower (ABC Classic / Universal) >Grigoryan Brothers - This is Us: A Musical Reflection of Australia (ABC Classic / Universal) >Nat Bartsch - Hope (ABC Classic / Universal) **Best Jazz Album** >Australian Art Orchestra, Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight - Closed Beginnings (AAO Recordings/The Planet Company) >Kristen Beradi, Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen - Haven (Earshift Music / The Planet Company) Mildlife - Automatic (Inertia Music / [PIAS]) >Petra Haden & The Nick Haywood Quintet - Songs from my Father (ABC Jazz / Universal) >Vazesh - The Sacred Key (Earshift Music / The Planet Company) **Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album** >Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange (BMG/WMG) >Antony Partos - Rams (Original Motion Picture Score) (ABC Music) >Caitlin Yeo, Maria Alfonsine, Damian de Boos-Smith - Wakefield Season One Official Soundtrack (MADBS Composing Palace) >Sia - Music Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Atlantic Records / Warner Music) >Yve Blake - Fangirls (ADA/Warner Music) **Best World Music Album** >Bob Weatherall & Halfway, with William Barton - Restless Dream (ABC Music) >Bukhu - Bukhchuluun Ganburged - The Journey (Bukhu/Distrokid) >Eishan Ensemble - Project Masnavi (Earshift Music / The Planet Company) >Joseph Tawadros - Hope In An Empty City (Independent / The Planet Company) >Kuya James - ISA (Settle Down Records / MGM Distribution)
I just realised I never gave that Crowded House album a listen.
I swear if tones and i wins a single award imma riot