Amyl And The Sniffers, Kevin Parker, King Stingray Among Winners At 2025 APRA Music Awards

The 2025 APRA Awards have been announced in Melbourne this evening, with some of the biggest names in Aussie music walking away victorious.

Handed out at a ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall, this year’s awards were headlined by none other than Amyl And The Sniffers, who took out the prestigious peer-voted APRA Song Of The Year category thanks to their 2024 single U Should Not Be Doing That.

The award is just another notch in the belt of the Melbourne four-piece, who achieved their second consecutive #2 placing on the Aussie charts thanks to last year’s Cartoon Darkness. Most recently, they also performed at both weekends of the 2025 Coachella festival in California – one of the few Aussie acts on the bill.

Troye Sivan was named as Songwriter Of The Year, just a year on from his win of Song Of The Year for Rush at the 2024 Awards. "Songwriting is my favorite thing that I get to do," Sivan said in a statement alongside his win. "I think it'll be something that I do for the rest of my life."

The biggest winner on the night, however, was arguably Tame Impala's own Kevin Parker, who nabbed both Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed Pop Work for his role in Dua Lipa's Houdini. The track was co-written by Parker alongside Lipa and Caroline Ailin, Daniel Harle, and Tobias Jesso Jr., with the Aussie representation enough to see it score the psych rock icon two awards.

While Keanu Beats (that is, Keanu Torres) was given the International Recognition Award, Royal Otis masterminds Otis Pavolvic and Royel Maddell were named the Emerging Songwriter Of The Year. Sia's Unstoppable was named the Most Performed Australian Work Overseas and Tate McRae's Greedy was deemed the Most Performed International Work.

On the genre front, Ziggy Alberts took out the Most Performed Blues & Roots Work, while Cooper Alan took out country and Dom Dolla was the victor in the dance and electronic genre. Make Them Suffer, Lithe, and Kaiit were the winners in hard rock and heavy metal, hip hop and rap, and R&B and soul, respectively, while King Stingray took out the rock genre for Through The Trees.

Lastly, Kylie Minogue was formally awarded the already-announced Ted Albert Award For Outstanding Service To Australian Music. “Thank you so much, APRA,” Minogue said in a statement. This is such an honour; I am completely over the moon. I’m only sad that I’m not with you in person.”

“17-year-old me would not be able to compute the life that music has given me. I mean, we all know it’s work. You work for it, but I feel like whatever we give and whatever it might take from us, we receive more.

“As I’m on tour at the moment, I’m singing songs throughout my entire catalogue,” she added. “So, from the first one, The Locomotion, right up to songs from Tension, and I’m really aware of...the passage of time and how much more music means to me.”

In another statement, APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston noted how the ceremony celebrates the local and international achievements of Aussie songwriters. “It’s heartwarming to see so many first-time winners this year, showcasing the incredible breadth of talent Australia produces, and it’s a testament to the opportunity of Australia becoming a global songwriting powerhouse," he said.

“With an election just days away, we hope that both sides of government can see the immense talent we have here, and the opportunities to build a stronger, fairer, more vibrant future for Australian music, recognising our music as the global cultural powerhouse and valuable export that it so clearly is.”

2025 APRA Music Awards Winners List

Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year

Title: U Should Not Be Doing That
Artist: Amyl and The Sniffers
Writers: Declan Mehrtens / Fergus Romer / Amy Taylor / Bryce Wilson

Songwriter of the Year

Writer: Troye Sivan
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

Emerging Songwriter of the Year

Writers: Otis Pavlovic & Royel Maddell (Royel Otis)
Publishers: Kobalt Music Publishing obo Ourness Songs

International Recognition Award

Keanu Torres (Keanu Beats)

Most Performed Australian Work

Title: Houdini
Artist: Dua Lipa
Writers: Kevin Parker / Dua Lipa*^ / Caroline Ailin / Daniel Harle / Tobias Jesso Jr.^
Publishers: Sony Music Publishing / Warner Chappell Music* / Universal Music Publishing^

Most Performed Australian Work Overseas

Title: Unstoppable
Artist: Sia
Writer: Sia Furler / Christopher Braide*
Publishers: Sony Music Publishing / Concord Music Publishing ANZ*

Most Performed Alternative Work

Title: Paradise
Artist: Coterie
Writers: Brandford Fisher / Conrad Fisher / Joshua Fisher / Tyler Fisher / Robby De Sa*
Publishers: Concord Music Publishing ANZ / Sony Music Publishing*

Most Performed Blues & Roots Work

Title: New Love
Artist: Ziggy Alberts
Writer: Ziggy Alberts
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing

Most Performed Country Work

Title: Take Forever (Hally’s Song)
Artist: Cooper Alan
Writers: Kylie Sackley* / Timothy Cooper^ / Justin Morgan+
Publishers: I Love You More Music Worldwide* / BMG^ / SHOUT! Music Publishing+

Most Performed Dance/Electronic Work

Title: Saving Up
Artist: Dom Dolla
Writers: Dominic Matheson / Clementine Douglas* / Toby Scott^ / Caitlin Stubbs^
Publishers: Sony Music Publishing / Mushroom Music Publishing* / Kobalt Music Publishing^

Most Performed Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Work

Title: Epitaph
Artist: Make Them Suffer
Writers: Sean Harmanis / Nicholas McLernon / Jordan Mather / Alexandra Reade / Jeff Dunne
Cooking Vinyl Publishing

Most Performed Hip Hop / Rap Work

Title: Fall Back
Artist: Lithe
Writers: Josiah Ramel* / Omid Khasrawy
Publisher: Concord Music Publishing ANZ obo Boss Level*

Most Performed International Work 

Title: Greedy 
Artist: Tate McRae 
Writers: Tate McRae / Amy Allen* / Jasper Harris^ / Ryan Tedder
Publishers: Sony Music Publishing / Warner Chappell Music* / Concord Music Publishing ANZ^

Most Performed Pop Work

Title: Houdini
Artist: Dua Lipa
Writers: Kevin Parker / Dua Lipa*^ / Caroline Ailin / Daniel Harle / Tobias Jesso Jr.^
Publishers: Sony Music Publishing / Warner Chappell Music* / Universal Music Publishing^

Most Performed R&B / Soul Work

Title: Space
Artist: Kaiit
Writers: Kaiit Waup / Jake Amy / Anthony Liddell / Jaydean Miranda / Justin Smith

Most Performed Rock Work

Title: Through The Trees
Artist: King Stingray
Writers: Theo Dimathaya Burarrwanga / Roy Kellaway* / Campbell Messer / Yirrŋa Gotjiringu Yunupingu* / Yimila Gurruwiwi / Lewis Stiles
Publisher: Sony Music Publishing*

Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Service to Australian Music

Kylie Minogue

Licensee of the Year

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