2022 J Award Winners Announced

Triple j, Double J, Unearthed, and Rage are celebrating Australian music today for the 18th annual J Awards, live on your radio until 4 pm AEST.

Double J and triple j mornings shared the Double J Artist Of The Year from 10 am. At noon, triple j Lunch will reveal the triple j and Rage Australian Music Video Of The Year, and the Unearthed Artist Of The Year and Done Good Award will be announced on triple j Drive from 3 pm.

9:20 am - Gang Of Youths take out Australian Album Of The Year with their genre-defying, beautiful third album, angel in realtime! 

Triple J Music Director Nick Findlay said about the win: "On their third album, Gang of Youths took their much-loved songwriting style to a whole new thematic space. The entire record is overflowing with ambitious ideas and sounds that are perfectly executed and never outstay their welcome. angel in realtime sees the Sydney band well and truly enter the realm of local superstars and is an incredibly well-deserved winner of this year's J Award for Australian Album of the Year."

Gang Of Youths won, but their fellow nominees Eliza & The Delusionals (Now And Then), Flume (Palaces), Julia Jacklin (PRE PLEASURE), King Stingray (King Stingray), Meg Mac (Matter Of Time), Northlane (Obsidian), Sampa The Great (As Above, So Below), Spacey Jane (Here Comes Everybody), and Stand Atlantic with f.e.a.r. are all winners with listeners.

Upon the album's release, The Music wrote, "The band's new album, angel in realtime, is a tribute to family, love and loss, as well as a celebration of life. It explores heartache, hope and history through Dave's poetic lyricism, woven into a sonic tapestry of pounding drums and basslines, poppy synths, orchestral strings, beautifully simple piano and Pasifika voices."

11:00 am - Midnight Oil win the Double J Artist Of The Year award!

2022 was Midnight Oil's year. The band released their thirteenth album, Resist, and bid us farewell. They toured throughout the country, the US and Canada and Europe before wrapping things up with a 3.5-hour epic concert at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion. Midnight Oil are no legacy act and still have things to say. The band won the award over their fellow nominees, Courtney Barnett, Sampa The Great, HAAi, and King Stingray.

2:30 pm - 1300 has won the triple j and Rage Australian Music Video Of The Year with Oldboy!

1300's Oldboy is a multilingual tune by the Korean-Australian artist, and the Raghav Rampal-directed clip is inspired by Park Chan-wook's 2003 film of the same name. Like the film, the music video is highly stylised and inserts the rapper into the duo's favourite scenes from the movie. The other nominees were Confidence Man with Holiday, Flume (ft MAY-A) with Say Nothing, Party Dozen (ft. Nick Cave) with Macca The Mutt, and RONA (ft. Helena) with Closure.

3:30pm - Elsy Wameyo has won the triple j Unearthed Artists of the Year! 

It's been a massive year for Adelaide-based, Kenyan-born talent Elsy Wameyo after she dropped her E.P Nilotic. Blending soul, bars, and energy, all influenced by her Nilot heritage. Wameyo writes, produces and performs all her own music, suggesting that she's an artist with major staying power.  

5:00pm - Gang Of Youths have won triple j Australian Album of the Year with their acclaimed album angel in realtime.

This is the third time that Gang Of Youths have been nominated for Album of the Year, but this is the first time they've won. Keeping their rock roots, angel in real time is a sonic masterpiece that encapsulates the very essence of the Gang Of Youth sound. 

This article is being updated as the winners are announced.