ARIA Awards 2024 nominations — everything you need to know

The 2024 ARIA Awards nominations were revealed this morning as part of a YouTube livestream, with a host of musicians and artists hoping to head home with an iconic pointy trophy.

Spanning 29 categories and multiple genres, it’s a lengthy list that shows the strength of the Australian music scene over the past 12 months.

Let’s take a closer look at who’s in the running for ARIAs glory, and the big contenders for the music industry’s glitziest awards ceremony, taking place at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion next month on Gadigal Land.

Who’s got the most ARIA nominations?

Leading the pack, with a whopping eight nods, is Sydney indie rock duo Royel Otis.

Made up of Royel Madden and Otis Pavlovic, Royel Otis broke through in 2023 with their third EP, Sofa Kings, then released their debut album Pratts & Pain to critical acclaim.

They kicked off 2024 with a visit to triple j’s Like A Version that skyrocketed them to global fame. 

Their cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 pop hit ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ exploded worldwide, amassing more than six million views on YouTube and 48 million streams on Spotify – and now, an ARIA nomination for Song of the Year.

The nod is also a big moment for triple j, as it marks the first time a Like A Version recording has been in contention for an ARIA award.

Outside of Australia, Royel Otis has seen massive success with extensive sold-out tours under their belts and another cover – of ‘Linger’ by The Cranberries – cracking the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

In their first ARIA Awards, Royel Otis are vying to take home Album Of The Year, Best Group, Best Independent Release, Best Rock Album, Best Australian Live Act and Song of the Year. Pratts & Pain producer Chris Collins is up for Best Engineered Release and Best Produced Release.

Hot on Royel Otis’s heels is Dom Dolla, with six nominations. A regular of the local and international electronic circuit, the producer is in the running for Best Solo Artist for his feel-good banger ‘Saving Up’, as well as Best Dance/Electronic Release – the category he’s won twice before.

Just behind, at five nods each, is Kylie Minogue and Melbourne/Naarm singer-songwriter Angie McMahon.

Currently gearing up for a homecoming Australian tour and new album, Kylie Minogue last year scored her first ARIA Award in 20 years (and 17th overall) thanks to the runaway success of mega-hit ‘Padam Padam’.

In 2024, her latest album Tension and its title track puts the pop royal in the mix for Best Solo Artist, Album of the Year, Best Independent Release, Best Pop Release and the public-voted Song of the Year.

Squaring off in many of the same categories is Angie McMahon, whose critically acclaimed second album Light, Dark, Light Again explores themes of self-care, climate anxiety, and divining growth from ailing relationships.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Music Prize and J Awards’ Australian Album of the Year, the record could earn ARIA glory – it’s up for Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Best Independent Release, and Best Rock Album. 

The accompanying Light, Dark, Light Again tour is nominated in the public-voted Best Australian Live Act category.

ARIA favourites…

Troye Sivan won four trophies last year, and now the Perth-bred pop sensation is back with another four nominations (Best Solo Artist, Album of the Year, Best Pop Release, Song of the Year).

The ARIAs are happening during Sivan’s anticipated homecoming tour of the country in support of his album Something To Give Each Other, featuring the Grammy winning hit ‘Rush’.

Eight-time ARIA winner Amy Shark could expand her trophy cabinet with four nods, recognising her third album Sunday Sadness. Globetrotting electronic act RÜFÜS DU SOL are also eyeing four nominations, looking to add to their five previous ARIA wins.

Global sensations The Kid LAROI and Tones And I have been the ones to beat in recent years, and both are squared up for four nods in key categories.

…and ARIA hopefuls

First Nations supergroup 3%, consisting of Nooky, Dallas Woods and Angus Field, are first-time ARIA nominees.

Their breakout, The Presets-sampling single ‘Our People’ recently won Song of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards last month. Now, 3%’s politically charged debut album, Kill The Dead, is a strong pick in the Hip Hop/Rap category and the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist award (named for the late, pioneering Mushroom mogul).

In the same category are triple j favourites Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers and Sycco, scoring their first ARIA Award nods.

Sydney-spanning hardcore punk outfit SPEED has also clocked their first nominations for their genre-defining debut album Only One Mode.

Meanwhile proud Yorta Yorta, Djadja Wurrung, Kalkadoon and Yirendali woman Miss Kaninna has nabbed three nominations for her breakout hit, ‘Blak Britney’.

And Milan Ring is celebrating her first nod for Best Soul/R&B Release, squaring up against not just Miss Kaninna but also the winner of the category last year – non-binary artist Forest Claudette.

But wait… there’s more

After dominating the nominations last year, multi-instrumentalist G Flip has just one ARIA nod for their single ‘The Worst Person Alive’.

It extends the love for the anthemic hit, which clocked #2 in triple j’s Hottest 100 this year, G Flip breaking the record for the most entries in a single countdown.

Best World Music Album will be a tough choice, with stunning records from Christine Anu, Radical Son, and Dobby each exploring their cultural identity and expanding their sonic pallette.

Troy Cassar-Daley is up for Best Solo Artist and the Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man’s 14th studio album, Between The Fires, seems a sure bet for Best Country Album – a category he’s won five times across almost three decades.

Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins will be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, 20 years on from her blockbuster debut album The Sound of White and just weeks after its chart-topping ‘spiritual sequel’, The Second Act.

“I never imagined in my wildest dreams this would happen,” Missy recently told Double J of the Hall of Fame honour. “I feel in very good company. It’s a pinch me moment, to be honest.

Best Children’s Album will be a hotly contested face-off between ARIA faves The Wiggles and Emma Memma (aka ex-Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins). 

But it could be Bluey album, Dance Mode! , that snatches the win from both them and nominees Zizi & The Zillionaires and troubadour Josh Pyke’s children’s album.

The winners will be unveiled on Wednesday 30 November at this year’s ARIA Awards, hosted at the Hordern Pavilion. For now, here’s the full list of 2024 ARIA Award nominees.

Album of the Year

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other (EMI Music Australia)

Best Solo Artist

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

Emma Donovan — Till My Song Is Done (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

The Kid LAROI — THE FIRST TIME (DELUXE VERSION) (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Tkay Maidza — Sweet Justice (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Tones And I — Beautifully Ordinary (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)

Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other (EMI Music Australia)

Best Group

3% — KILL THE DEAD (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Hiatus Kaiyote — Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder/Inertia)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

RÜFÜS DU SOL — Music is Better (Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia)

SPEED — Only One Mode (Last Ride Records/ADA)

Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist

3% — KILL THE DEAD (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Becca Hatch — MAYDAY (Forever Ever/SonyMusic

Kita Alexander — Young In Love (Warner Music Australia)

Sycco — Zorb (Future Classic)

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers — I Love You (Domestic La La)

Best Pop Release

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Jessica Mauboy — Yours Forever (Warner Music Australia)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

The Kid LAROI — Girls (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other (EMI Music Australia)

Best Dance / Electronic Release

Confidence Man — I CAN’T LOSE YOU (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

CYRIL — Stumblin’ In (Spinnin’ Records/WMA)

Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

RÜFÜS DU SOL — Music is Better (Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia)

Best Hip Hop / Rap Release

3% — KILL THE DEAD (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Kobie Dee — Chapter 26 (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)

Lithe — Fall Back (GSL/GYROstream)

ONEFOUR — Natural Habitat (ONEFOUR RECORDS)

The Kid LAROI — THE FIRST TIME (DELUXE VERSION) (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Best Soul / R&B Release

Forest Claudette — Jupiter (Sony Music)

Milan Ring — Mangos (Astral People Recordings/(PIAS))

Miss Kaninna — Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)

PANIA — WE STILL YOUNG (Say Less)

Tkay Maidza — Sweet Justice (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Independent Release

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Emily Wurramara — NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Miss Kaninna — Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Best Rock Album

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Grinspoon — whatever, whatever (Universal Music Australia)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flight b741 (p(doom) records)

Middle Kids — Faith Crisis Pt 1 (EMI Music Australia)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Angus & Julia Stone — Cape Forestier (Sony Music)

Crowded House — Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA)

Emily Wurramara — NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Emma Donovan — Til My Song Is Done (Civilians)

Fanning Dempsey National Park — The Deluge (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Country Album

Casey Barnes — Mayday (Casey Barnes Entertainment/Chugg Music)

Henry Wagons — The Four Seasons (Cheatin’ Hearts Records/ADA)

James Johnston — Raised Like That (Warner Music Australia)

Tori Forsyth — All We Have Is Who We Are (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)

Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)

Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album

C.O.F.F.I.N — Australia Stops (Damaged Records/Inertia)

Dune Rats — If It Sucks, Turn It Up (BMG/ADA)

Polaris — Fatalism (Resist/Civilians)

SPEED — Only One Mode (Last Ride Records/ADA)

Teenage Joans — The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest (Domestic La La)

Best Blues & Roots Album

Checkerboard Lounge — SUN Sessions (Cheersquad Records and Tapes)

Dope Lemon — Kimosabè (BMG/ADA)

Georgia Mooney — Full Of Moon (Nettwerk Music Group)

Mia Dyson — Tender Heart (Metropolitan Groove Merchants)

The Paper Kites — At The Roundhouse (Wonderlick Recording Company)

Best Children’s Album

Bluey — Dance Mode! (Ludo Studios/Demon Demon Music Group/Rocket)

Emma Memma — Twirly Tunes (GYROstream)

Josh Pyke — It’s Gonna Be A Great, Great Day! (ABC Music/The Orchard)

The Wiggles — Wiggle and Learn: 100 Educational Songs for Children (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Zinzi & The Zillionaires — Zinzi & The Zillionaires (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Public Voted Awards

Best Video

REAL LIFE LOVE — SPEED, Jack Rudder, Jem Siow, Thomas Elliot (Last Ride Records/ADA)

Cold Treatment — Lime Cordiale, Jack Shepherd (Chugg Music/MGM)

U Should Not Be Doing That — Amyl and The Sniffers, John Angus Stewart (Amyl and The

Sniffers/Virgin Music Group)

Time Of My Life — Peach PRC, Josh Harris (Island Records Australia)

Lately — RÜFÜS DU SOL, Katzki (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Beautiful Eyes — Amy Shark, Marcario De Souza (Sony Music)

Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense — Budjerah, Michael O’Halloran (ONYX FILM) (Warner Music Australia)

Dance With Me — Tones And I, Nick Kozakis and Sela Vai (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)

Blak Britney — Miss Kaninna, Will Hamilton-Coates (Soul Has No Tempo)

I CAN’T LOSE YOU — Confidence Man, Zac Dov Wiesel (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

Best Australian Live Act

Angie McMahon — Making It Through Tour (AWAL Recordings)

Barkaa — BARKAA (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)

Confidence Man — Laneway Festival (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

Dirty Three — Love Changes Everything Tour (Anchor & Hope/Remote Control Records)

Dom Dolla — DOM DOLLA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2023 (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

King Stingray — Regional Run 2024 (Civilians/The Orchard)

Missy Higgins — The Second Act Tour 2024 (Eleven/EMI Music Australia)

Royel Otis — Royel Otis PRATTS & PAIN Tour (Ourness/Believe)

RÜFÜS DU SOL — RÜFÜS DU SOL 2024 Australian Summer Tour Dates (Rose Avenue Records/Warner

Music)

Tones And I — P!nk Supported By Tones And I (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)

Song of the Year

CYRIL — Stumblin’ In (Spinnin’ Records/WMA)

Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

G Flip — The Worst Person Alive (Future Classic)

Jessica Mauboy Feat. Jason Derulo — Give You Love (Warner Music Australia)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Lithe — Fall Back (GSL, GYROstream)

Royel Otis — Murder on the Dance Floor — triple j Like A Version (ABC Music/The Orchard)

The Kid LAROI — Nights Like This (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Troye Sivan — Got Me Started (EMI Music Australia)

Most Popular International Artist

Ariana Grande — Eternal Sunshine (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard And Soft (Darkroom/Interscope/Universal Music Australia)

Chappell Roan — The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Island Records USA/Universal Music

Australia)

Charli XCX — BRAT (Atlantic Records/Warner Music Australia)

Drake — For All The Dogs (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Olivia Rodrigo — Guts (Geffen/Universal Music Australia)

Tate McRae — Think Later (RCA Records/Sony Music Entertainment)

Taylor Swift — The Tortured Poets Department (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Travis Scott — Utopia (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment)

Zach Bryan — Zach Bryan (Warner Records/Warner Music Australia)

ARIA Music Teacher Award

Casey Allen — PLC Sydney, Eora Nation, NSW

Hayley Wedding — Seaview High School, Kaurna Land, SA

Nathaniel Miller — Bulman School, Arnhem Land, NT

Susan Sukkar — Petersham Public School, Eora Nation, NSW

Artisan Awards

Best Cover Art

Daniel Boyd and Nomad Create for KILL THE DEAD — 3% (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Giulia McGauran & Sam Chirnside for Tones And I — Beautifully Ordinary (Better Batch Records/Sony

Music)

Louis Leimbach for Lime Cordiale — Enough Of Sweet Talk (Chugg Music/MGM)

Michael Bryers for Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)

Tomas Shanahan for Mildlife — Chorus ((PIAS) Australia/Inertia Music)

Engineer — Best Engineered Release

Chris Collins for Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

Eric J. Dubowsky for Angus & Julia Stone — Cape Forestier (Sony Music)

Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun — Ask That God (EMI Music

Australia)

Tony Buchen for Mildlife — Chorus ((PIAS) Australia/Inertia Music)

Producer — Best Produced Release

Chris Collins for Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Crowded House & Steven Schram for Crowded House — Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA)

Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER for FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun — Ask That God (EMI Music

Australia)

Fine Arts Award

Best Classical Album

Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Richard Tognetti — Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 ‘Eroica’ (ABC

Classic/The Orchard)

Grigoryan Brothers — Amistad — Music For Two Guitars (Decca Australia/UMA)

Orava Quartet — ORAWA (Deutsche Grammophon Australia/UMA)

Sophie Hutchings — A World Outside (Mercury KX/UMA)

Veronique Serret — Migrating Bird (Migrating Bird Records/The Planet Company)

Best Jazz Album

Audrey Powne — From The Fire (Barely Breaking Even/The Orchard)

Elixir (feat. Katie Noonan, Zac Hurren & Ben Hauptmann) — A Small Shy Truth (ABC Jazz/The

Orchard)

Mildlife — Chorus ((PIAS) Australia/Inertia Music)

Tourismo — Torque (ABC Jazz/The Orchard)

Vanessa Perica Orchestra — The Eye is the First Circle (Vanessa Perica)

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

Ack Kinmonth — Scarygirl (Independant)

Harlow — This is HARLOW (Music From Paper Dolls) (Helium/MGM)

Helena Czakja — Nemesis (Original Series Soundtrack) (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Jackson Milas — The Way, My Way (Ambition Records/MGM)

Various Artists — Faraway Downs (DTS Productions/Sony Music)

Best World Music Album

Christine Anu — Waku (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Dobby — Warangu; River Story (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Joseph Tawadros — The Virtue of Signals (Independant/The Planet Company)

Radical Son — Bilambiyal (Wantok Musik/The Planet Company)

Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator — History of House (Xelon Entertainment)

Our Soundtrack Our Ads: Best Use of an Australian Recording in an Advertisement

Cancer Council: End The Trend — Bolster Group, JK-47

NRL & AFL: WARRIORS & STORYTELLERS — Fox Sports Australia, Kobie Dee

Qantas Olympics: Already Proud — Howatson+Company, Tones And I

realestate.com.au: Keep Moving — 72andSunny, Eurogliders

Speedo International: Go Full Speedo — Collider/Mirimar, The Beefs