The nominees have been announced for the 2011 ARIA Awards. The awards, celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, will be held at the end of next month at Sydney's Allphones Arena (formerly Acer Arena) and will recognise excellence in Australian recorded music with a swag of industry-voted categories, along with a number of publicly-voted 'Most Popular' categories.
Leading the field in this year's nominations are Sydney outfit Boy & Bear, hip hop star Drapht and Melbourne singer-songwriter Gotye, each of whom have scored seven nods from the voting panelists.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu achieved six nominations, so too West Australian outfit Eskimo Joe, while Bird Of Tokyo follow with five nominations, with four each for Billy Thorpe and Guy Sebastian.
Gotye, Drapht and Boy & Bear have all been confirmed to perform at the November 27 ceremony.
As always, fans will have the chance to vote, with the categories of Most Popular Australian Artist and Most Popular International Artist both up for grabs within the publicly voted realm. A new category - Most Popular Australian Live Artist - has also been added this year. Fans can head HERE to cast their vote.
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Birds of Tokyo - Wild at Heart
Boy & Bear - Feeding Line
Drapht- Rapunzel
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
The Jezabels - Dark Storm
Guy Sebastian - Who's That Girl (feat. Eve)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Boy & Bear – Moonfire
Cut Copy – Zonoscope
Eskimo Joe - Ghosts Of The Past
Grinderman – 2
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Rrakala
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE
Birds of Tokyo – Plans
Havana Brown - We Run The Night
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
Jessica Mauboy - Saturday Night (feat. Ludacris)
Guy Sebastian - Who's That Girl (feat. Eve)
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM
Altiyan Childs - Altiyan Childs
Birds Of Tokyo - Birds Of Tokyo
Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way
Keith Urban - Get Closer
Various - He Will Have His Way - The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Adalita – Adalita
Clare Bowditch - Are You Ready Yet?
Kasey Chambers - Little Bird
Kimbra - Cameo Lover
Washington - Holy Moses
BEST MALE ARTIST
Drapht - The Life Of Riley
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist
Josh Pyke - No One Wants A Lover
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Rrakala
BEST GROUP
Birds of Tokyo - Wild At Heart
Boy & Bear – Moonfire
Eskimo Joe - Ghosts Of The Past
Grinderman – 2
The Living End - The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST : SINGLE
Zoe Badwi - Freefallin'
Boy & Bear - Feeding Line
Havana Brown - We Run The Night
Drapht – Rapunzel
The Jezabels - Dark Storm
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST : ALBUM
Boy & Bear – Moonfire
Drapht - The Life Of Riley
Gypsy & The Cat – Gilgamesh
The Middle East - I Want That You Are Always Happy
Oh Mercy - Great Barrier Grief
BEST POP RELEASE
Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
Gypsy & The Cat – Gilgamesh
Guy Sebastian - Who's That Girl (feat. Eve)
Washington - Holy Moses
BEST DANCE RELEASE
Bag Raiders - Bag Raiders
Cut Copy – Zonoscope
Miami Horror – Illumination
Pnau - Soft Universe
The Potbelleez - From The Music
BEST URBAN ALBUM
Drapht - The Life Of Riley
Illy - The Chase
Koolism - The „Umu
Phrase – Babylon
Vents - Marked For Death
Full list of nominees in all categories are available at www.ariaawards.com.au.
The 25th Annual ARIA Awards are held on Sunday November 27 at Allphones Arena in Sydney. General Public tickets are on sale from Ticketek this Monday, October 17.
10 comments:
really? those would have to be the worst nominations ever.
I can't believe they ignored Jess Mauboy. She deserved some nominations for Saturday Night, and the album, which were amazing.
Surprised Havana and Zoe got a nomination. With the awards, ARIA have always seemed to be pro-alternative and a little anti-pop.
Congratulations to ARIA...another who's who of who's that. Any wonder no commercial network wants to air this event...they're so caught up in keeping all the Triple Jers happy that theyve ignored all the commercial successes of the year.
Boring!
How can Jess Mauboy not be nominated for Best Female?! Not even Best Pop Release. Poor girl.
And what is it with all of these NZ artists being nominated??
What a joke! I'm moving to Sweden.
Hey team,
Looking at the nominations, it looks like it's going to be a tale of two winners this year - Boy & Bear and Gotye.
Gotye was fresh in people's minds because it was No.1 at the time of voting.
As one of the 800 or so voting members, we can assure you that we put in a good word for pop.
The auspOp team
No wonder the Australian Recording Industry is in as much trouble as it is, when it's own members vote against the more commercially successful pop artists. It's almost as if you get punished for appealing to the masses.
Bring back the Australian Music Awards, which actually awarded the highest selling artists. The public is the most important judge as far as I'm concerned anyway...
Most boring ARIAs ever.
Not a fan of public voted awards. Some fan-bases are experts and run scripts or strike 'deals'. Just saw a tweet saying Declan Sykes fans will vote for Guy in return for votes for Declan in xfactor. Wonder what Guy thinks of that. Maybe they have deals with Johnny and Reece's fan-groups too?
unimpressed
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