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The 2022 ARIA Awards
nominees are here

Natalie Imbruglia and Lewis Capaldi
to co-host Australian music’s
night of nights

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2022 ARIA Awards Co-Host – Natalie Imbruglia

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Australian music’s biggest night of celebration is almost here, with nominees and ARIA Awards co-hosts revealed for the 2022 ARIA Awards in partnership with YouTube today via live stream, presented by Nine’s Brooke Boney.

The best of the best in homegrown music will be celebrated across 27 categories on Thursday, 24 November. Held at Sydney’s iconic live music venue, The Hordern Pavilion on Gadigal land, the 2022 ARIA Awards will be available to watch live and free across Australia on Channel 9 and 9Now and streamed internationally across YouTube.

In the first live and in-person show since 2019, this year’s awards will be co-hosted by eight-time ARIA Awards-winner, Aussie-born international icon Natalie Imbruglia, joined by internationally loved singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. The pair will recognise, pay tribute and celebrate the achievements of the incredibly talented artists and industry professionals in Australia’s music community.

Natalie was propelled into the limelight in the 1990s, kicking off her career in music with the chart-topping Torn, which reached #2 on the UK and Australian singles charts, #1 airplay around the world and #1 on the Billboard Airplay chart for 14 weeks, with more than a million copies sold in the UK alone. The single was taken from her subsequent ARIA #1 album, 1997’s Left Of The Middle, which went on to sell over seven million copies worldwide and celebrates its 25th anniversary this November.  Natalie has accumulated sales of over 10 million albums and one billion streams, five UK Top 10 singles, 10 UK Top 40 singles, one UK #1 album, three UK Top 10 albums, two BRIT Awards, eight ARIA Awards, three MTV Music Awards, one Billboard Music Award, three GRAMMY™️ nominations and more.

Natalie said: “I am beyond excited to be returning home to Australia to co-host this year’s ARIA Awards. This November marks the 25th anniversary of my first album, Left Of The Middle, so it will be a celebration for me in many ways. It will be a fun night with Lewis Capaldi as my co-host and honouring all the incredible Australian artists this year. Cannot wait to see you there on 24 November.”

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2022 ARIA Awards Co-Host and International Performer Lewis Capaldi // Photo – Alexandra Gavillet

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Co-hosting and performing live at the ARIA Awards in Sydney, Scottish superstar Lewis Capaldi has been on tour since the release of his blockbuster single Someone You Loved in 2019, which has recorded over 13.1 billion streams worldwide. The breakthrough single was the longest-running UK Top 10 single by a British artist ever, spending seven weeks at #1. His album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent was the biggest selling UK album of 2019 and 2020. With over 25 billion combined global streams, Capaldi is a two-time BRIT Award winner and GRAMMY™️ nominee. Returning to Australia for the first time since his 2020 tour, Lewis’s ARIA Awards co-host and performance announcement comes on the heels of the release of his brand-new single Forget Me, which debuted on the UK charts at #1.

Lewis Capaldi said “Buzzing to be coming back over to Australia for the first time since 2020! Such an honour to be asked to co-host the ARIA Awards with the incredible Natalie Imbruglia! I’m pinning every single one of my hopes on winning an award as well because it’s very, very unlikely after hosting it I’m ever going to be invited back again, perhaps even into the country. Can’t wait to see you all soon!”

Global superstars RÜFÜS DU SOL are closing another huge year with seven ARIA Awards nominations for their fourth album Surrender, claiming nominations for Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Pop Release, Best Dance/Electronic Release, Best Video presented by YouTube, Song of the Year presented by YouTube and Producer – Best Produced Album presented by Neumann. In 2021 and 2022 the band played the biggest shows of their career, including three sold out nights at Banc of California Stadium, Red Rocks and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium.

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Cementing themselves among the hottest Australian artists of the past 12 months, Melbourne four-piece Amyl and the Sniffers unveiled Comfort To Me, breaking new ground for the band by debuting at #2 on the ARIA Albums Chart. With lead vocalist Amy Taylor’s energy adding to the Sniffers’ success, the bands critically acclaimed album has secured six ARIA Awards nominations this year: Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Rock Album, Best Australian Live Act presented by Heaps Normal, Producer – Best Produced Album presented by Neumann (with Dan Luscombe), and Best Video presented by YouTube (with John Angus Stewart).

With 12 ARIA Awards already under his belt, Flume has had a mammoth year with his third album Palaces, landing at #3 on the charts and scoring over 85 million streams to date. For the 2022 ARIA Awards, Flume has secured six nominations for Best Solo Artist, Best Dance/Electronic Release, Producer – Best Produced Album presented by Neumann, Best Pop Release, Best Video presented by YouTube (with Michael Hili), and Song of The Year presented by YouTube.

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It has been a huge year for Baker Boy, international superstar The Kid LAROI and Vance Joy, who are each nominated for five awards this year. Previous ARIA Awards winner, Sydney-born singer songwriter Julia Jacklin has also scored four nominations alongside King Stingray, Gang Of Youths and Luude.

Garnering reviews globally from the likes of Pitchfork, The New York Times, NME and NPR Music for the album PRE PLEASURE, 2022 will mark the first time Julia Jacklin has been nominated for Best Solo Artist, alongside leading artists Baker Boy, Budjerah, Courtney Barnett, Daniel Johns, Flume, Ruel, The Kid LAROI, Thelma Plum and Vance Joy.

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ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd, said: “It’s been another transformative year for Australian music. As we return to a live event, in a venue entrenched in Australian music history, the 2022 ARIA Awards are about celebrating the best of what the industry is, has been, and can be in the future. It is exciting that this year’s nominees again reflect a diverse, representative, and inclusive playing field for Aussie music – something we are committed to championing for years to come as we help more Australians connect with more local music. Congratulations to all the incredible artists recognised in this year’s nominations, and to everyone who has played a role in helping shape Aussie music over 2022. Your commitment, passion, talent and creativity is second to none. We can’t wait to celebrate with all of you live and, finally, in person this November in Sydney.”

ARIA Chair, Natalie Waller, said: “On behalf of the ARIA Board, we are sending an enormous congratulations to all of the talented artists who today received a nomination for the 2022 ARIA Awards in partnership with YouTube. You are all the very core of the unique brilliance that is Australia’s thriving music community locally and abroad. We look forward to bringing a live show back to the public to showcase all the achievements of Australian artists from this year. Good luck to all of our nominees and thank you to all of our sponsors. I look forward to a fantastic evening.”

YouTube Head of Music, Australia and New Zealand, Marion Briand, said: “A huge congratulations from me and the entire YouTube team to all the 2022 ARIA Awardsnominees! It’s an incredible line-up of homegrown talent, which we cannot wait to celebrate and share with new fans around the world on YouTube. If you missed the live-streamed nominations announcement, you can catch-up on the ARIAs YouTube channel now.”

NSW Minister for Tourism, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Regional Youth ,The Hon. Ben Franklin MP, said: “The NSW Government joins ARIA in congratulating all the incredibly gifted nominees for the 2022 ARIA Awards. The depth of Australian music talent is shining through the prism of the ARIAs. We are proud to partner with ARIA, Nine and YouTube in celebrating and reflecting on the incredible achievements across the music industry and we look forward to continuing supporting large-scale music events for our musicians.”

Tickets to the 2022 ARIA Awards event are now available to industry. Further information, and links for ticket purchases, can be found here.

The 2022 ARIA Awards in partnership with YouTube are proudly supported by the NSW Government through Destination NSW.

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JULIA JACKLIN // Photo – Izzie Austin

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2022 ARIA AWARDS
NOMINATED ARTISTS

Winners to be announced Thursday, 24 November at 7.30pm

Album of the Year presented by Neumann

Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me (Virgin Music Australia)
Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records/Universal Music Australia)
Gang Of Youths – Angel In Realtime. (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl/The Orchard)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Best Solo Artist

Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records/Universal Music Australia)
Budjerah – Conversations (Warner Music Australia)
Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Daniel Johns – FutureNever (BMG/ADA)
Flume – Palaces (Future Classic)
Julia Jacklin – PRE PLEASURE (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
Ruel – Growing Up Is____ (RCA/Sony Music)
The Kid LAROI – Thousand Miles (Columbia/Sony Music)
Thelma Plum – Meanjin (Warner Music Australia)
Vance Joy – In Our Own Sweet Time (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)

Best Group

Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me (Virgin Music Australia)
Gang Of Youths – Angel in Realtime. (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl/The Orchard)
Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony Music)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist

Beddy Rays – Beddy Rays (Independent/Ditto Music)
Bella Taylor Smith – Look Me In The Eyes (EMI Music Australia)
Harvey Sutherland– Boy (Clarity Recordings/Virgin Music Australia)
King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl/The Orchard)
Luude – Down Under (ft. Colin Hay) (Sweat It Out/Warner Music)

Best Pop Release

Flume – Say Nothing (feat. May-A) (Future Classic)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – On My Knees (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
The Kid LAROI – Thousand Miles (Columbia/Sony Music)
Thelma Plum – Meanjin (Warner Music Australia)
Vance Joy – Clarity (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)

Best Dance / Electronic Release 

Confidence Man – Tilt (I OH YOU/Mushroom)
Flume – Palaces (Future Classic)
Harvey Sutherland– Boy (Clarity Recordings/Virgin Music Australia)
Luude – Down Under (ft. Colin Hay) (Sweat It Out/Warner Music)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Best Hip Hop / Rap Release 

Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records/Universal Music Australia)
Barkaa – Blak Matriarchy (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)
Chillinit – Family Ties (420 Family / Virgin Music Australia)
Day1 – MBAPPÉ (feat. KAHUKX) (db Music / Warner Music Australia)
The Kid LAROI & Fivio Foreign – Tokyo to Paris (Columbia/Sony Music)

Best Soul / R&B Release

Budjerah – Conversations (Warner Music Australia)
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Under These Streets (Cooking Vinyl Australia/The Orchard)
KIAN – SHINE (EMI Music Australia)
Vanessa Amorosi – City Of Angels (Scream Louder/MGM)

Best Independent Release presented by PPCA

Archie Roach – One Song (Bloodlines/Mushroom Group)
Ball Park Music – Weirder & Weirder (Prawn Records/Inertia Music)
Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Genesis Owusu – GTFO (Ourness)
Julia Jacklin – PRE PLEASURE (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)

Best Rock Album

Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me (Virgin Music Australia)
Ball Park Music – Weirder & Weirder (Prawn Records/Inertia Music)
Gang Of Youths – Angel in Realtime. (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl/The Orchard)
Spacey Jane – Here Comes Everybody (AWAL Recordings)

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Alex the Astronaut – How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater (Warner Music Australia)
Julia Jacklin – PRE PLEASURE (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
Missy Higgins – Total Control (Eleven: A Music Company / Universal Music Australia)
Vance Joy – In Our Own Sweet Time (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
Vika & Linda – The Wait (Bloodlines/Mushroom Group)

Best Country Album

Adam Brand – All Or Nothing (ABC Music)
Amber Lawrence – Living for the Highlights (ABC Music)
Andy Golledge – Strength of a Queen (I OH YOU/Mushroom)
Casey Barnes – Light It Up (Casey Barnes Entertainment/ Chugg Music)
Georgia State Line – In Colour (Cheatin Heart Records/Virgin Music Australia)

Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album

Dune Rats – Real Rare Whale (BMG/ADA)
Northlane – Obsidian (Believe/Rocket)
Shihad – Old Gods (Warner Music NZ)
The Chats – Get Fucked (Bargain Bin Records / The Chats via Ingrooves)
Thornhill – Heroine (UNFD/The Orchard)

Best Blues & Roots Album

Charlie Collins – Undone (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
The Bamboos – Hard Up (BMG/ADA)
The Teskey Brothers with Orchestra Victoria – Live At Hamer Hall (Ivy League Records/Mushroom Group)
Thornbird – Thornbird (Thornbird/MGM)
William Crighton – Water and Dust (ABC Music)

Best Children’s Album

Benny Time – Benny and Friends (Independent)
Teeny Tiny Stevies – How To Be Creative (ABC Music)
The Beanies – Let’s Go! (ABC Music)
The Wiggles – ReWiggled (ABC Music)
Van-Anh Nguyen – The Princess And The Piano (Universal Music Australia)  

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

Best Video presented by YouTube 

Apple Crumble – Lime Cordiale, Joe Neathway (Chugg Music)
Blak Matriarchy – Barkaa, Selina Miles (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)
Down Under (ft. Colin Hay) – Luude, Peter Hume (Sweat It Out / Warner)
Every Side Of You – Vance Joy, William Bleakley (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
GTFO – Genesis Owusu, Uncle Friendly (Rhett Wade-Ferrell) (Ourness)
Hertz – Amyl and The Sniffers, John Angus Stewart (Virgin Music Australia)
I Don’t Wanna Leave – RÜFÜS DU SOL, Katzki (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
Lydia Wears A Cross – Julia Jacklin (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)
Say Nothing (feat. MAY-A) – Flume (Future Classic)
Wish You Well (feat. Bernard Fanning) – Baker Boy, Macario De Souza (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)

Best Australian Live Act presented by Heaps Normal

Amy Shark – See U Somewhere Australia Tour 2022 (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me Tour 2022 (Virgin Music Australia)
Baker Boy – Gela Tour (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Budjerah – The Conversations Australian Tour (Warner Music Australia)
Gang Of Youths – Angel in Realtime. (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
Genesis Owusu – Genesis Owusu & The Black Dog Band (Ourness)
Midnight Oil – RESIST. THE FINAL TOUR. 2022 (Sony Music)
The Kid LAROI – End Of The World Tour (Columbia/Sony Music)
The Wiggles – The OG Wiggles Reunion / Fruit Salad TV Big Show Tour (ABC Music)
Thelma Plum – The Meanjin Tour (Warner Music Australia)

Song of the Year presented by YouTub

Clinton Kane – I Guess I’m In Love (Columbia/Sony Music)
Dean Lewis – Hurtless (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Flume – Say Nothing (feat. MAY-A) (Future Classic)
Joji – Glimpse Of Us (88rising/Warner Records)
Jolyon Petch feat. Reigan – Dreams (TMRW)
Luude – Down Under (ft. Colin Hay) (Sweat It Out/Warner)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – On My Knees (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
The Kid LAROI – Thousand Miles (Columbia/Sony Music)
Tones And I – Cloudy Day (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)
Vance Joy – Clarity (Liberation Records/Mushroom Group)

Most Popular International Artist

ABBA – Voyage (Universal Music Group/Polar Music International)
Adele – 30 (Columbia/Sony Music)
Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (Darkroom/Interscope Records/Universal Music Group)
Drake – Certified Lover Boy (OVO/Republic/Universal Music Group)
Ed Sheeran –  = (Atlantic Records/Warner Music)
Harry Styles – Harry’s House (Columbia/Sony Music)
Jack Harlow – Come Home The Kids Miss You (Atlantic Records/Warner Music)
Lil Nas X – Montero (Columbia/Sony Music)
Post Malone – Twelve Carat Toothache (Mercury/Republic/Universal Music Group)
Taylor Swift – Red (Taylor’s Version) (Republic/Universal Music Group)

Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award

David Collins-White – Haberfield Public School, Haberfield, Eora Nation, NSW
Jane Nicholas – Willandra Primary School, Seville Grove, Noongar Land, WA
Kath Dunn – Wollondilly Public School, Goulburn, Gundungurra Land, NSW
Matt Orchard – Apollo Bay P-12 College, Apollo Bay, Gadubanud Territory, VIC

ARTISAN AWARDS

Best Cover Art

Adnate for Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Giulia Giannini McGauran for Alex the Astronaut – How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater (Warner Music Australia)
Jonathan Zawada for Flume – Palaces (Future Classic)
Kayla Flett, Gabi Coulthurst & Dimathaya Burarrwanga for King Stingray – King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl Australia/The Orchard)
Seshanka Samarajiwa, Zain Ayub & Tasman Keith for Tasman Keith – A Colour Undone (AWAL Recordings Ltd)

Mix Engineer – Best Mixed Album

Cassian for RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
Dann Hume & Eric J Dubowsky for Budjerah – Conversations (Warner Music Australia)
Eric J Dubowsky for Flume – Palaces (Future Classic)
Paul McKercher for Ball Park Music – Weirder & Weirder (Prawn Records/Inertia Music)
Pip Norman, Andrei Eremin & Dave Hammer for Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)

Producer – Best Produced Album presented by Neumann

Amyl and the Sniffers & Dan Luscombe for Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me (Virgin Music Australia)
Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgawa for Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Flume – Palaces (Future Classic)
Pip Norman, Rob Amoruso, Morgan Jones, Carl Dimataga, Willie Tafa & Jerome Farah for Baker Boy – Gela (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Surrender (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

FINE ARTS AWARD

Best Classical Album

Amy Dickson, Colin Currie, Lothar Koenigs, Yvonne Kenny, David Zinman, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Ross Edwards: Frog and Star Cycle / Symphonies 2 & 3 (ABC Classic)
Lachlan Skipworth – Chamber Works, Vol. 2 (Cygnus Arioso)
Luke Howard – All of Us (Mercury KX/Universal Music Australia)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis – The Enchanted Loom: Orchestral works By Carl Vine (ABC Classic)
Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Guests – Duet (ABC Classic)

Best Jazz Album

Barney McAll – Precious Energy (Extra Celestial Arts)
Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson & Jonathan Zwartz – Another Dance (Lionsharecords/The Planet Company)
Mildlife – Live From South Channel Island ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)
Sam Anning – Oaatchapai (Earshift Music/The Planet Company)
Springtime – Springtime (Virgin Music Australia)

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

Australian Chamber Orchestra & Richard Tognetti – River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (ABC Classic)
Brett Aplin – No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score) (Independent)
In Hearts Wake – Green Is The New Black (UNFD/The Orchard)
Maria Alfonsine with Itunu Pepper – Akoni (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (MADBS Composing Palace)
Matteo Zingales – A Fire Inside (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (ABC Music)

Best World Music Album

Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean – Hand to Earth (AAO Recordings/The Planet Company)
Joseph Tawadros with William Barton – History Has A Heartbeat (Independent/The Planet Company)
Mista Savona – Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 (ABC Music)
Parvyn – Sa (Parvyn Music/Gaga Digi)
William Barton & Véronique Serret – Heartland (ABC Classic)

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About ARIA

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a national industry association with more than 100 members representing major and independent record producers, manufacturers, and distributors. ARIA acts as an advocate for the Australian music industry, administers the labeling code of practice, and compiles industry information and research. It also produces the ARIA Charts every week and the annual ARIA Awards. Most importantly, ARIA supports Australian music and creates opportunities for it to be heard.

We acknowledge First Nations people as the Traditional Owners and sovereign custodians of the lands on which we work and live. We recognise their continuing connection to Country and their respective nations across this continent and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We also celebrate the unique and inspiring creativity and songlines of the world’s oldest living culture and give thanks for the immeasurable influence First Nations people continue to have over the music and art we all enjoy.

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AMNPLIFY – DB