2016 ARIA AWARDS PRESENTED BY TELSTRA RECIPIENTS
Telstra Album Of The Year WINNER: Flume – Skin (Future Classic) RÜFÜS – Bloom (Sweat It Out/Sony Music) Sia – This Is Acting (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) The Avalanches – Wildflower (Modular/EMI) Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood (EMI) Best Male Artist WINNER: Flume – Skin (Future Classic) Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk (Dew Process/Universal Music) Guy Sebastian – Black & Blue (Sony Music) Illy – Papercuts (feat. Vera Blue) (Warner Music Australia) Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood (EMI) Best Female Artist WINNER: Sia – This Is Acting (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) Delta Goodrem – Wings of the Wild (Sony Music) Jessica Mauboy – This Ain’t Love (Sony Music) Montaigne – Glorious Heights (Wonderlick Recording Company) Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return (EMI) Best Dance Release WINNER: Flume – Skin (Future Classic) Hayden James – Just A Lover (Future Classic) L D R U – Keeping Score (feat. Paige IV) (Audio Paxx Agency/Sony Music) RÜFÜS – Bloom (Sweat It Out/Sony Music) The Avalanches – Wildflower (Modular/EMI) Best Group WINNER: Violent Soho – WACO (I Oh You) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records) RÜFÜS – Bloom (Sweat It Out/Sony Music) The Avalanches – Wildflower (Modular/EMI) The Veronicas – In My Blood (Sony Music) Breakthrough Artist WINNER: Montaigne – Glorious Heights (Wonderlick Recording Company) DMA’S – Hills End (I Oh You) L D R U – Keeping Score (feat. Paige IV) (Audio Paxx Agency/Sony Music) Olympia – Self Talk (EMI) Safia – Make Them Wheels Roll (Warner Music Australia/Parlophone) Best Pop Release WINNER: Flume – Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) (Future Classic) Illy – Papercuts (feat. Vera Blue) (Warner Music Australia) Sia – This Is Acting (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) The Veronicas – In My Blood (Sony Music) Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood (EMI) Best Urban Album WINNER:Drapht – Seven Mirrors (The Ayems/Sony Music) Citizen Kay – With The People (ASP/MGM) Koi Child – Koi Child (Pilerats Records) L-FRESH The LION – Become (Elefant Traks/Inertia) Urthboy – The Past Beats Inside Me Like A Second Heartbeat (Elefant Traks/Inertia) Best Independent Release WINNER: Flume – Skin (Future Classic) Jarryd James – Thirty One (Dryden Street Limited/Universal Music) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records) Sia – This Is Acting (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) Violent Soho – WACO (I Oh You) Best Rock Album WINNER:Violent Soho – WACO (I Oh You) Ball Park Music – Every Night The Same Dream (Stop Start Music) Boy & Bear – Limit Of Love (Boy & Bear/Universal Music) Gang Of Youths – Let Me Be Clear (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music) The Living End – Shift (Dew Process/Universal Music) Best Adult Contemporary Album WINNER: Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk (Dew Process/Universal Music) Bob Evans – Car Boot Sale (EMI) Paul Kelly – Seven Sonnets & A Song (Gawd Aggie Recordings/Universal Music) Robert Forster – Songs To Play (EMI) Tina Arena – Eleven (EMI) Best Adult Alternative Album WINNER:Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return (EMI) Jarryd James – Thirty One (Dryden Street Limited/Universal Music) Matt Corby – Telluric (Mercury Records Australia/Universal Music) Peter Garrett – A Version of Now (Sony Music) The Temper Trap – Thick As Thieves (Liberation Music) Best Country Album WINNER:Sara Storer – Silos (ABC Music/Universal Music) Adam Brand and the Outlaws – Adam Brand and the Outlaws (ABC Music/Universal Music) Bill Chambers – Cold Trail (Checked Label Services) Fanny Lumsden – Small Town Big Shot (Social Family Records/Universal Music) The Wolfe Brothers – This Crazy Life (ABC Music/Universal Music) Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album WINNER:King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records) Hellions – Opera Oblivia (UNFD) Parkway Drive – Ire (Resist/Cooking Vinyl Australia) The Amity Affliction – This Could Be Heartbreak (Roadrunner Records) Twelve Foot Ninja – Outlier (Volkanik/MGM) Best Blues & Roots Album WINNER:Russell Morris – Red Dirt Red Heart (Chugg Music/MGM) Jimmy Barnes – Soul Searchin’ (Liberation Music) Kev Carmody – Recollections… Reflections… (A Journey) (One Louder Recordings/Universal Music) The Cat Empire – Rising With The Sun (Two Shoes Records) The Wilson Pickers – You Can’t Catch Fish From A Train (ABC Music/UMA) Best Children’s Album WINNER:The Wiggles – Wiggle Town! (ABC Music/Universal Music) Justine Clarke – Pyjama Jam! (ABC Music/Universal Music) Pat Davern – Alexander The Elephant In Zanzibar (ABC Music/Universal Music) Play School – Famous Friends: Celebrating 50 Years of Play School (ABC Music/Universal Music) Sam Moran – Play Along With Sam: BEST. DAY. EVER! (6 Degrees Records/MGM) Best Video
WINNER:Troye Sivan – YOUTH Acoustic (Sydney Session) (EMI) Courtney Barnett – Elevator Operator (Milk!/Remote Control) Delta Goodrem – Dear Life (Sony Music) Flume – Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) (Future Classic) Guy Sebastian – Black & Blue (Sony Music) Hilltop Hoods – 1955 (feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum) (Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia) Illy – Papercuts (feat. Vera Blue) (Warner Music Australia) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – People-Vultures (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records) Sia – Cheap Thrills (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) Violent Soho – Like Soda (I Oh You) Best Australian Live Act WINNER:Hilltop Hoods – The Restrung Tour (Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia) Courtney Barnett – National Theatre Tour (Milk!/Remote Control) Flume – St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2016 (Future Classic) Gang Of Youths – Gang Of Youths National Tour (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity Tour (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records) RÜFÜS – Bloom Tour (Sweat It Out/Sony Music) Tame Impala – Australian Tour (Modular/Universal Music) The Living End – Shift Tour (Dew Process/Universal Music) Violent Soho – The WACO Tour (I Oh You) You Am I – Bargain Bin Bon Vivants Tour (The You Am I Set/Inertia) Apple Music Song of the Year WINNER:Troye Sivan – Youth (EMI) Flume – Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) (Future Classic) Hilltop Hoods – 1955 (feat. Montaigne & Thom Thum) (Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia) Illy – Papercuts (feat. Vera Blue) (Warner Music Australia) Kungs vs. Cookin’ On 3 Burners – This Girl (UNI/UMA) Keith Urban feat. Carrie Underwood – The Fighter (Capital/EMI) L D R U – Keeping Score (feat. Paige IV) (Audio Paxx Agency/Sony Music) Marcus Marr & Chet Faker The Trouble With Us (Detail Records) Sia – Cheap Thrills (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia) The Veronicas – In My Blood (Sony Music) Best International Artist WINNER: One Direction – Made in the A.M & Four (SYCO/Sony Music Entertainment) Adele – 25 (XL/Inertia) Beyonce – Lemonade (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment) Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams (PLG/Warner) Drake – Views & If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (Universal/Universal Music Australia) Meghan Trainor – Title & Thank You (Sony Music Entertainment) Justin Bieber – Purpose (DEF/Universal Music Australia) Taylor Swift – 1989 (BIG/Universal Music Australia) twenty one pilots – Blurryface (Atlantic/Warner) The Weekend – Beauty Behind The Madness (Universal/Universal Music Australia) 2016 Outstanding National Retailer JB Hi-Fi 2016 Outstanding Independent Retailer Red Eye Records 2016 Outstanding Digital Service Spotify 2016 ARIA Industry Icon Award Sebastian Chase | 
