ARIA Award for Best Group
ARIA Award for Best Group | |
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Country | Australia |
Presented by | Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |
First awarded | 1987 |
Currently held by | Rüfüs Du Sol, "Alive" (2021) |
Website | ariaawards |
The ARIA Music Award for Best Group, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[1] since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."[2] The award is given to an Australian group comprising two or more members for an album or single release. The accolade is voted for by a judging academy which comprises 1000 members from different areas of the music industry.[3]
The award for Best Group was first presented to INXS in 1987, for their single "Listen Like Thieves".[4]
Winners and nominees[]
In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. All reliable sources used in this article make no mention of nominees from 1989 - 1991.[5] 1987 information is based on an ARIA-supplied video.[4]
Year | Winner(s) | Album/Single Title |
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1987 (1st) |
INXS | "Listen Like Thieves" |
Crowded House | "Don't Dream It's Over" | |
Hunters & Collectors | Human Frailty | |
Midnight Oil | The Dead Heart | |
Pseudo Echo | "Funkytown" | |
1988 (2nd) | ||
Crowded House | N/A | |
Hunters & Collectors | N/A | |
Icehouse | N/A | |
INXS | N/A | |
Midnight Oil | N/A | |
1989 (3rd) | ||
INXS | "Never Tear Us Apart" | |
The Black Sorrows | Hold On To Me | |
Crowded House | Temple of Low Men | |
The Go-Betweens | 16 Lovers Lane | |
Midnight Oil | "Dreamworld" | |
1990 (4th) | ||
The Black Sorrows | Hold On To Me | |
1927 | "Compulsory Hero" | |
Boom Crash Opera | These Here Are Crazy Times | |
Johnny Diesel & The Injectors | Johnny Diesel & The Injectors | |
Hunters & Collectors | Ghost Nation | |
1991 (5th) | ||
Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mining | |
Boom Crash Opera | Look! Listen!! | |
The Black Sorrows | Harley and Rose | |
Hunters & Collectors | "Throw Your Arms Around Me" | |
INXS | X | |
1992 (6th) | ||
INXS | Live Baby Live | |
Baby Animals | Baby Animals | |
The Black Sorrows | "Never Let Me Go" | |
Crowded House | Woodface | |
Hunters & Collectors | "" | |
1993 (7th) | ||
Crowded House | "Weather with You" | |
Baby Animals | "One Word" | |
The Black Sorrows | Better Times | |
The Cruel Sea | This Is Not the Way Home | |
INXS | Welcome to Wherever You Are | |
1994 (8th) | ||
The Cruel Sea | The Honeymoon Is Over | |
Baby Animals | Shaved and Dangerous | |
Crowded House | Together Alone | |
INXS | Full Moon, Dirty Hearts | |
Midnight Oil | Earth and Sun and Moon | |
1995 (9th) | ||
The Cruel Sea | Three Legged Dog | |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Let Love In | |
Crowded House | Private Universe | |
Silverchair | Frogstomp | |
You Am I | Hi Fi Way | |
1996 (10th) | ||
You Am I | Hourly, Daily[nb 1] | |
The Badloves | Holy Roadside | |
Crowded House | "Everything Is Good for You" | |
Regurgitator | Tu-Plang | |
Silverchair | "Blind" | |
1997 (11th) | ||
Savage Garden | Savage Garden | |
Crowded House | "Instinct" | |
Powderfinger | Double Allergic | |
Silverchair | Freak Show | |
Spiderbait | Ivy and the Big Apples | |
1998 (12th) | ||
The Whitlams | Eternal Nightcap | |
Regurgitator | Unit | |
Savage Garden | "Universe" | |
The Superjesus | Sumo | |
You Am I | #4 Record | |
1999 (13th) | ||
The Living End | The Living End | |
Powderfinger | Internationalist | |
Regurgitator | "! (The Song Formerly Known As)" | |
Silverchair | Neon Ballroom | |
You Am I | "Heavy Heart" | |
2000 (14th) | ||
Killing Heidi | Reflector | |
Powderfinger | "Passenger" | |
Savage Garden | "Affirmation" | |
Shihad | The General Electric | |
Madison Avenue | "Don't Call Me Baby" | |
2001 (15th) | ||
Powderfinger | Odyssey Number Five | |
The Avalanches | Since I Left You | |
Killing Heidi | "Superman Supergirl" | |
Something for Kate | Echolalia | |
You Am I | Dress Me Slowly | |
2002 (16th) | ||
Silverchair | Diorama | |
george | Polyserena | |
Grinspoon | New Detention | |
Powderfinger | "The Metre/Waiting for the Sun" | |
The Vines | Highly Evolved | |
2003 (17th) | ||
Powderfinger | Vulture Street | |
Grinspoon | "No Reason" | |
Silverchair | "Across the Night" | |
Something for Kate | The Official Fiction | |
The Waifs | Up All Night | |
2004 (18th) | ||
Jet | Get Born | |
The Cat Empire | The Cat Empire | |
Eskimo Joe | A Song Is a City | |
Powderfinger | "Sunsets" | |
The Dissociatives | The Dissociatives | |
2005 (19th) | ||
Eskimo Joe | "Older Than You" | |
Evermore | Dreams | |
Grinspoon | Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills | |
Powderfinger | These Days | |
Thirsty Merc | "Someday, Someday" | |
2006 (20th) | ||
Wolfmother | Wolfmother | |
Augie March | Moo, You Bloody Choir | |
Eskimo Joe | Black Fingernails, Red Wine | |
Rogue Traders | Here Come the Drums | |
The Living End | State of Emergency | |
2007 (21st) | ||
Silverchair | Young Modern | |
Eskimo Joe | "Sarah" | |
Powderfinger | Dream Days at the Hotel Existence | |
Sneaky Sound System | Sneaky Sound System | |
Wolfmother | "Joker & the Thief" | |
2008 (22nd) | ||
The Presets | Apocalypso | |
Angus & Julia Stone | A Book Like This | |
Faker | Be the Twilight | |
Silverchair | If You Keep Losing Sleep | |
The Living End | White Noise | |
2009 (23rd) | ||
Empire of the Sun | Walking on a Dream | |
AC/DC | Black Ice | |
Eskimo Joe | Inshalla | |
Hilltop Hoods | State of the Art | |
The Drones | Havilah | |
2010 (24th) | ||
The Temper Trap | Conditions | |
Angus & Julia Stone | Down the Way | |
Birds of Tokyo | Birds of Tokyo | |
Powderfinger | Golden Rule | |
Tame Impala | Innerspeaker | |
2011 (25th) | ||
Boy & Bear | Moonfire | |
Birds of Tokyo | "Wild at Heart" | |
Eskimo Joe | Ghosts of the Past | |
Grinderman | Grinderman 2 | |
The Living End | The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating | |
2012 (26th) | ||
The Temper Trap | The Temper Trap | |
Boy & Bear | "Big Man" | |
Cold Chisel | No Plans | |
Hilltop Hoods | Drinking from the Sun | |
The Jezabels | Prisoner | |
2013 (27th) | ||
Tame Impala | Lonerism | |
Birds of Tokyo | March Fires | |
Boy & Bear | Harlequin Dream | |
Empire of the Sun | Ice on the Dune | |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Push the Sky Away | |
2014 (28th) | ||
Sheppard | Bombs Away | |
5 Seconds of Summer | 5 Seconds of Summer | |
Hilltop Hoods | Walking Under Stars | |
RÜFÜS | "Sundream" | |
Violent Soho | "Saramona Said" | |
2015 (29th) | ||
Tame Impala | Currents | |
5 Seconds of Summer | LiveSOS | |
AC/DC | Rock or Bust | |
Hermitude | Dark Night Sweet Light | |
The Preatures | Blue Planet Eyes | |
2016 (30th) | ||
Violent Soho | Waco | |
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Nonagon Infinity | |
RÜFÜS | Bloom | |
The Avalanches | Wildflower | |
The Veronicas | "In My Blood" | |
2017 (31st) | ||
Gang of Youths | Go Farther in Lightness | |
A.B. Original | Reclaim Australia | |
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Flying Microtonal Banana | |
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Skeleton Tree | |
Peking Duk | "Stranger" (featuring Elliphant) | |
2018 (32nd) | ||
5 Seconds of Summer | Youngblood | |
DMA's | For Now | |
Peking Duk | "Fire" | |
Pnau | "Go Bang" | |
Rüfüs Du Sol | "No Place" | |
2019 (33rd) | ||
The Teskey Brothers | Run Home Slow | |
5 Seconds of Summer | "Easier" | |
Birds of Tokyo | "Good Lord" | |
Hilltop Hoods | The Great Expanse | |
Rüfüs Du Sol | Solace | |
2020 (34th) | ||
Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | |
5 Seconds Of Summer | Calm | |
DMA's | The Glow | |
Lime Cordiale | 14 Steps to a Better You | |
The Teskey Brothers | Live at the Forum | |
2021 (35th) | ||
Rüfüs Du Sol | "Alive" | |
AC/DC | Power Up | |
Gang of Youths | "The Angel of 8th Ave." | |
Midnight Oil | The Makarrata Project | |
The Avalanches | We Will Always Love You |
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ "ARIA Awards 2011 overview". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ "What We Do". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ "ARIA 2011 - Eligibility Criteria and Category Definitions" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ a b "ARIA Awards 1987.mov". 13 November 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2013 – via YouTube. ARIA Official YouTube Account.
- ^ "Winners By Award – Best Group – 27th ARIA Awards 2013". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
External links[]
- ARIA Music Awards