Courtney BarnettMelbourne singer-turned-international superstar Courtney Barnett continues on her quest to claim every single award humanly possible, taking out four titles at the ARIA Awards.
Currently touring Europe, Barnett was up for eight awards at The Star casino-based event, walking away with Best Female Artist, Best Independent Release, and Breakthrough Artist, after winning Best Cover Art last month at the ARIA Nominations event in Sydney.
The world-conquering force that is Tame Impala also left their impression, being crowned Best Group, and being awarded Best Rock Album and Best Album for Currents out of their six nominations, Oh Mercy won Best Adult Contemporary Album for When We Talk About Love, CW Stoneking’s Gon' Boogaloo was worthy of Best Blues & Roots Album and Vance Joy was crowned Male Artist Of The Year.
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)
