Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards

ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards of 2017
2008 ARIA Hall of Fame, at Melbourne Town Hall
Awarded for	Excellence and innovation in all genres of Australian music.
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Recording Industry Association
First awarded	1987
Last awarded	Current
Website	ariaawards.com.au
Television/radio coverage
Network	Network Ten (1992–2000, 2002–2008, 2010, 2014–2016) Nine Network (2001, 2009, 2017) GO! (2011–2013)

Most recent ARIA Award winners

← 2015 23 November 2016 2017 →

Award Album of the Year Best Group Winner Flume (Skin) Violent Soho (Waco)   Award Best Male Artist Best Female Artist Winner Flume (Skin) Sia (This Is Acting)

Previous Album of the Year Currents Album of the Year Skin

Currents

Skin

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The event has been held annually since 1987 and encompasses the general genre-specific and popular awards (these are what is usually being referred to as "the ARIA awards") as well as Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards (held separately from 2004), Lifetime Achievement Awards and ARIA Hall of Fame – held separately from 2005 to 2010 but returned to the general ceremony in 2011. For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time.

Winning, or even being nominated for, an ARIA award results in a lot of media attention and publicity on an artist, and usually increases recording sales several-fold, as well as chart significance – in 2005, for example, after Ben Lee won three awards, his album Awake Is the New Sleep jumped from No. 31 to No. 5 in the ARIA Charts, its highest position.

In 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) was established by the six major record companies then operating in Australia, EMI, Festival Records, CBS (now known as Sony Music), RCA (now known as BMG), WEA (now known as Warner Music) and Polygram (now known as Universal) replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956. It later included smaller record companies representing independent acts/labels and has over 100 members.

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