Flume, Violent Soho & Troye Sivan Take Out Multiple ARIA Awards At 2016 Event

The Australian music industry converged (a little wetter than they'd have liked) at The Star in Sydney tonight for the 30th annual ARIA Awards, with perennial prize-winners Flume, Violent Soho and Troye Sivan emerging with multiple trophies to their name.

It was Flume (and his new album, Skin) who walked away the night's biggest winner, picking up five ARIAs — Album Of The Year, Best Independent Release, Best Male Artist, Best Dance Release and Best Pop Release, for Never Be Like You, ft. Kai — in addition to his three Artisan Awards, taking his total for the year to eight like it's no big deal. He fended off some pretty serious competition across the board in doing so, too, including the likes of RUFUS, Sia, The Avalanches, Troye Sivan, Bernard Fanning, Guy Sebastian, Illy and more.

Mansfield's favourite sons in Violent Soho won a not-unimpressive two categories of their own following a live showing of their recent single, Like Soda, going on to claim Best Group and Best Rock Album (for this year's fourth studio full-length effort, Waco).

Meanwhile, the loose cannons in King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard won the category-adjacent Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album for Nonagon Infinity against a tough field that included Hellions, Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction and Twelve Foot Ninja, and The Wiggles, ft. vampiric young members or not, defied the march of time itself to still be pumping out Best Children's Album in 2016 with Wiggle Town!.

Old mate Troye picked up his dual victories for his clip for an acoustic version of Youth recorded in Sydney — Best Video, natch — and the 'default' version of the same song, which earned him the Song Of The Year award, now evidently named for Apple Music and bestowed upon Troye by British superstar Robbie Williams. Huh.

Also picking up nods from ARIA were acclaimed chanteuse Sia, whose album This Is Acting helped her take the title of Best Female Artist, as well as Montaigne (Breakthrough Artist, Glorious Heights), Drapht (Best Urban Album, Seven Mirrors), Bernard Fanning (Best Adult Contemporary Album, Civil Dusk), Sarah Blasko (Best Adult Alternative Album, Eternal Return) and more.

International juggernauts One Direction were paid homage by picking up the publicly voted Best International Artist award for their fifth consecutive year, which — in a bracket that included Adele, Beyonce, Drake and others — kind of says a lot about how scary-dedicated Directioners still are, Zayn or not.

Among all the young guns and go-getters, the legendary Crowded House were inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame by Flight Of The Conchords members (and Neil Finn's countrymen) Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Bernard Fanning and Missy Higgins were on hand for renditions of Fall At Your Feet and Better Be Home Soon, and the band of the hour themselves brought the night to an awestruck standstill with 1993 favourite Distant Sun, from the album Together Alone.

Despite 2016 being a year that has been — to put it mildly — trying at times, ARIA chief executive Dan Rosen was positively effusive about the past 12 months in Australian music.

"2016 has been an amazing year for Australian music and that was certainly evident by the incredible talent that graced the ARIA stage," he said. "The collection of tonight’s winners, nominees and performers highlight the world-class homegrown talent that we have here in Australia."

"On behalf of the ARIA Board, I would like to congratulate all the winning artists and nominees at the 2016 ARIA Awards Presented By Telstra," ARIA and Sony Music Australia chairman Denis Handlin AM added. "It has also been our honour to welcome Crowded House into the ARIA Hall Of Fame.

"This year's ARIA Awards have been a great success, with our incredibly talented artists demonstrating the profound impact and diversity of Australian music."

The 30th ARIA Awards also featured performances from Jimmy Barnes and Jessica Mauboy — they teamed up for The Easybeats' Good Times, repopularised by Barnes and INXS in the late '80s before being reimagined by Mauboy this year for the soundtrack to her current show, The Secret Daughter — as well as Illy and Vera Blue, Troye Sivan and John Friggin' Farnham, who closed out the evening with his iconic anthem, You're The Voice.

See the full list of winners below, and check back tomorrow for more coverage from the event.

2016 ARIA Awards — Results

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 & The Outlaws — Adam Brand & 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 Weeknd — 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