2014 ARIA Awards – Nominations

ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Awards are as big in Australia as are Grammies in the U.S.A. This year’s ARIA awards nominations are dominated by the new stars. Melbourne based musician Chet Faker has nine nominations while Brisbane based band Sheppard picked up seven nominations. Songwriter and singer Sia has earned six nominations which is a record for her at ARIA. Iggy Azalea, who left Australia two years earlier to rock the U.S audience, has is nominated for four different categories in this year’s awards.

A full list of nominations is below.

Album Of The Year
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Dan Sultan – Blackbird
Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful
Sheppard – Bombs Away
Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear

Best Female Artist
Adalita – All Day Venus
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful
Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet
Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear

Best Male Artist
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Dan Sultan – Blackbird
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra: His Life And Music
Guy Sebastian – Come Home With Me
Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine

Best Group
5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer
Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars
RUFUS – Sundream
Sheppard – Bombs Away
Violent Soho – Saramona Said

Best Pop Release
5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer
Andy Bull – Sea Of Approval
Justice Crew – Que Sera
Sheppard – Bombs Away
Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear

Breakthrough Artist
5 Seconds Of Summer – 5 Seconds Of Summer
Andy Bull – Sea Of Approval
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
The Kite String Tangle – Vessel EP

Best Dance Release
Flume & Chet Faker – Drop The Game
Nicky Night Time – Everybody Together
Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar – High
RUFUS – Sundream
The Presets – No Fun

Best Independent Release
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Dan Sultan – Blackbird
Sheppard – Bombs Away
Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine
Violent Soho – Saramona Said

Best Rock Album
Angus & Julia Stone – Angus & Julia Stone
Ball Park Music – Puddinghead
Dan Sultan – Blackbird
Jimmy Barnes – 30:30 Hindsight
Kingswood – Microscopic Wars

Best Urban Album
360 – Utopia
Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
Illy – Cinematic
Thundamentals – So We Can Remember

Best Country Album
Adam Brand – My Side Of The Street
Emma Swift – Emma Swift
Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet
Keith Urban
The McClymonts – Here’s To You & I

VOTED BY PUBLIC

Best International Artist
Avicii – True
Beyonce – Beyonce
Coldplay – Ghost Stories
Ed Sheeran – X
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2
Jason Derulo – Tattoos
Katy Perry – Prism
Lorde – Pure Heroine
One Direction – Midnight Memories
Pharrell Williams – G I R L

Best Video
Ben Young for John Butler Trio – Only One
Charlie Ford for Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener
Dan Graetz for Violent Soho – Covered In Chrome
Sia Furler and Daniel Askill for Sia – Chandelier
Lawrence Lim for Jessica Mauboy – Never Be The Same
Lawrence Lim for Justice Crew – Que Sera
Renny Wijeyamohan for Busby Marou – My Second Mistake
Christian J Henrich & Nicholas Rabone for Bluejuice – SOS
Toby & Pete for Chet Faker – Talk Is Cheap
Toby Morris for Sheppard – Geronimo

Song Of The Year
5 Seconds of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
Guy Sebastian – Like A Drum
Havana Brown – Warrior
Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX – Fancy
Joel Fletcher feat. Savage – Swing
Justice Crew – Que Sera
Nathaniel – You
Sheppard – Geronimo
Sia – Chandelier
Taylor Henderson – Borrow My Heart

Post Author: David Watt