Courtney Barnett, Tame Impala Win Big At 2015 ARIA Awards

2015 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

album of the year

Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia) — WINNER

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records/Remote Control)

Flight Facilities - Down To Earth (Future Classic)

Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks)

Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away (Liberation Music)

best adult contemporary album

Oh Mercy - When We Talk About Love (EMI) - WINNER

John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John - Two Strong Hearts (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Megan Washington - There There (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions (Gawd Aggie Recordings / Universal Music Australia)

Szymon –Tigersapp (EMI / Eloper Music) 

best blues and roots album

CW Stoneking - Gon' Boogaloo (King Hokum Records / Caroline Australia) - WINNER

Marlon Williams - Marlon Williams (Caroline Australia)

The Black Sorrows - Endless Sleep (Head Records)

The Waifs - Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)

Tim Rogers & The Bamboos - The Rules of Attraction (Warner Music Australia) 

best children's album

Sam Moran - Play Along With Sam: BOO! (6 Degrees Records / MGM) - WINNER

Giggle & Hoot - Hootastic Tunes (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Play School - Favourite Things - Songs And Nursery Rhymes From Play School (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Rhys Muldoon - Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

The Wiggles - Rock & Roll Preschool (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

best comedy release

Matt Okine - Live At The Enmore Theatre (Century Entertainment) - WINNER

Bondi Hipsters - Fuhck The Bahnks (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Buddy Goode - Songs To Ruin Every Occasion (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Ronny Chieng - Chieng Reaction (Century Entertainment)

Sammy J & Randy – Live (Head Records)

best country album

Shane Nicholson - Hell Breaks Loose (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia) - WINNER

Catherine Britt – Boneshaker (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Mustered Courage - White Lies And Melodies (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Troy Cassar-Daley - Freedom Ride (Liberation Music)

best dance release

Rufus - You Were Right (Sweat It Out / Sony Music Entertainment Australia) - WINNER

Alison Wonderland – Run (EMI)

Flight Facilities - Down To Earth (Future Classic)

Hayden James - Something About You (Future Classic)

Peking Duk ft Safia - Take Me Over (Vicious Bitch / Universal Music Australia)

best female artist

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control) — WINNER

Jessica Mauboy - Can I Get A Moment? (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Meg Mac - MEGMAC EP (littleBIGMAN / Inertia)

Megan Washington - There There (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Sia - Elastic Heart (Inertia Recordings)

best group

Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia) - WINNER

5 Seconds Of Summer – LiveSOS (EMI)

AC/DC - Rock Or Bust (Alberts / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

best hard rock/heavy metal album

Northlane – Node (UNFD)

Born Lion - Final Words (FOUR|FOUR / Universal Music Australia)

In Hearts Wake – Skydancer (UNFD)

King Parrot - Dead Set (EVP Recordings / Rocket Distribution)

Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War (UNFD)

best independent release

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control) - WINNER

Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited)

Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions (Gawd Aggie Recordings)

Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away (Liberation Music)

best male artist

Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away (Liberation Music) — WINNER

#1 Dads – Nominal (Pieater / Inertia)

Daniel Johns – Talk (Eleven / EMI)

Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited)

best pop release

Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited) - WINNER

Conrad Sewell - Start Again (300 Entertainment / Warner Music Australia)

Sia - Elastic Heart (Inertia Recordings)

Tame Impala - Let It Happen (Modular / Universal Music Australia)

Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away (Liberation Music)

best rock album

Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia) - WINNER

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control)

Dead Letter Circus – Aesthesis (UNFD)

Gang Of Youths - The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

best urban album

Seth Sentry - Strange New Past (High Score Records / Inertia) - WINNER

Citizen Kay – Demokracy (Asphalt Records / MGM)

Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha / Sony Music Masterworks)

The Meeting Tree - R U A Cop (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Tuka - Life Death Time Eternal (EMI) 

breakthrough artist

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control) - WINNER

Conrad Sewell - Start Again (300 Entertainment / Warner Music Australia)

Gang Of Youths - The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited)

Meg Mac - Never Be (littleBIGMAN / Inertia)

outstanding achievement award

Lee Kernaghan

aria hall of fame inductee

Tina Arena

publicly voted awards

best australian live act

5 Seconds Of Summer - Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour (EMI) — WINNER

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Album Tour (Milk! Records / Remote Control)

Gang Of Youths - Gang of Youths National Tour (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light Tour (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater Australian Tour (Golden Era Records / Universal Music Australia)

Nick Cave - Nick Cave Australian Tour (Bad Seed / Kobalt Label Services)

Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions Tour (Gawd Aggie Recordings / Universal Music Australia)

Sheppard - The Bombs Away Tour (Chugg Music & Empire Of Song / MGM Distribution)

The Preatures - The Cruel Tour (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away Tour (Liberation Music)

best international artist

One Direction – Four (Syco / Sony Music Entertainment Australia) — WINNER

Ed Sheeran – X (Atlantic UK / Warner Music)

Calvin Harris – Motion (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (RCA / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Hozier – Hozier (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

James Bay - Chaos And The Calm (Universal / Universal Music Australia)

Mark Ronson - Uptown Special (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Meghan Trainor – Title (Epic Records / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour (Capitol / EMI)

Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine Records / Universal Music Australia)

best video

Matt Sharp & Daniel James for The Veronicas - You Ruin Me (Sony Music Entertainment Australia) - WINNER

Prad Senanayake for Alison Wonderland - U Don't Know feat. Wayne Coyne (EMI)

Charlie Ford for Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best (Milk! Records / Remote Control)

Lorin Askill for Daniel Johns - Aerial Love (Eleven / EMI)

Anthony Rose for Delta Goodrem – Wings (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Clemens Habicht for Flume - Some Minds feat. Andrew Wyatt (Future Classic)

Kess Broekman-Dattner for Hermitude - Through The Roof feat. Young Tapz (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

Duncan Toombs for Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Filmery for Shane Nicholson - Secondhand Man (Lost Highway Australia)

Luci Schroder for Vance Joy – Georgia (Liberation Music)

song of the year

Conrad Sewell - Start Again (300 Entertainment / Warner Music Australia) - WINNER

Grace ft G-Eazy  - You Don't Own Me (RCA / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Iggy Azalea ft Jennifer Hudson - Trouble (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)

Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited)

Marlisa - Stand By You (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Nathaniel - Live Louder (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Peking Duk ft SAFIA - Take Me Over (Vicious Bitch/Universal Music Australia)

Sia - Elastic Heart (Inertia Recordings)

The Veronicas - You Ruin Me (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Vance Joy – Georgia (Liberation Music)