Here Are All The Nominees For The 2019 ARIA Awards

Byron Busker turned chart-breaker Tones And I dominates this year’s 2019 ARIA Awards, landing eight nominations off the back of her debut EP The Kids Are Coming.

Tones — real name Toni Watson — is up for Best Female Artist, Breakthrough Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Independent Release, and Best Video and Song of the Year, those latter two both presented by YouTube Music. The mass nominations come after single ‘Dance Monkey’ broke an ARIA record: at 10 weeks and counting, it’s the longest-held #1 for an Australian song.

Other heavy-hitters include The Teskey Brothers and Hilltop Hoods, each landing seven nominations, followed by Thelma Plum and Julia Jacklin, each with six nominations for Better In Blak and Crushing, respectively.

Paul Kelly, Dean Lewis, Amy Shark and Guy Sebastian all have four plus nominations, too, while G Flip, Baker Boy, King Gizzard, Matt Corby and RÜFÜS DU SOL sit sweet at three chances to take home a dangerously sharp award.

The 2019 ARIA Awards will take place Wednesday 27 November, hosted by Guy Sebastian and supported by YouTube Music for the first time. They will be broadcast on Channel 9, and live-streamed on YouTube.

Five awards are publicly voted this year, including Best International Artist, Best Video, and Song Of The Year, the last two both supported by YouTube Music. For the former, you can vote via tweeting using the #ARIAs hashtag followed by the artist’s name (ie. #ARIAsArianaGrande), and the latter two directly by Googling ‘ARIA Vote’.

Find the full list of nominations below.

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ARIA Awards 2019 nominations

Album Of The Year
Dean Lewis – A Place We Knew
Hilltop Hoods – The Great Expanse 
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace 
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow
Thelma Plum – Better In Blak 

Best Male Artist
Dean Lewis – A Place We Knew 
Guy Sebastian – Choir 
Hayden James – Between Us 
Matt Corby – Rainbow Valley
Paul Kelly – Nature 

Best Female Artist
Amy Shark – Mess Her Up 
Jessica Mauboy – Little Things 
Julia Jacklin – Crushing
Thelma Plum – Better In Blak 
Tones And I – Dance Monkey 

Best Dance Release
Dom Dolla – Take It
FISHER – You Little Beauty 
Peking Duk & Jack River – Sugar 
PNAU – Solid Gold 
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace 

Best Group
5 Seconds Of Summer – Easier
Birds Of Tokyo – Good Lord 
Hilltop Hoods – The Great Expanse 
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace 
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow

 Breakthrough Artist
G Flip – About Us
Stella Donnelly – Beware Of The Dogs 
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow
Thelma Plum – Better In Blak 
Tones And I – Dance Monkey 

Best Pop Release
Amy Shark – Mess Her Up
Dean Lewis – A Place We Knew
Guy Sebastian – Choir 
Thelma Plum – Better In Blak 
Tones And I – Dance Monkey 

Best Hip Hop Release
Baker Boy – Cool As Hell 
Hilltop Hoods – The Great Expanse
Illy – Then What
Sampa The Great – Final Form
Tkay Maidza – Awake feat. JPEGMAFIA

Best Soul/R&B Release
Kaiit – Miss Shiney
Matt Corby – Rainbow Valley 
Adrian Eagle – AOK 
Genesis Owusu – WUTD + Vultures 
Tash Sultana – Can’t Buy Happiness 

Best Independent Release
Angie McMahon – Salt 
G Flip – About Us
Julia Jacklin – Crushing 
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow 
Tones And I – The Kids Are Coming 

Best Rock Album
Amyl and The Sniffers – Amyl and The Sniffers 
Holy Holy – My Own Pool Of Light
Jimmy Barnes – My Criminal Record 
Midnight Oil – Armistice Day: Live at The Domain, Sydney
Skegss – My Own Mess 

Best Adult Contemporary Album
Julia Jacklin – Crushing 
Paul Kelly – Nature 
Samantha Jade – The Magic of Christmas 
Seeker Lover Keeper – Wild Seeds
The Paper Kites – On The Corner Where You Live

Best Country Album
Charlie Collins – Snowpine 
Felicity Urquhart – Frozen Rabbit 
Lee Kernaghan – Backroad Nation
Morgan Evans – Things We Drink To 
Sara Storer – Raindance

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
Clowns – Nature/Nurture 
Dead Letter Circus – Dead Letter Circus 
DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 1 
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Infest The Rats’ Nest 
Northlane – Alien 

Best Blues & Roots Album
Dan Sultan – Aviary Takes
John Butler Trio – HOME 
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies 
Paul Kelly – Live At Sydney Opera House 
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow

Best Children’s Album
Dan Sultan – Nali & Friends
Kamil Ellis and Ensemble Offspring – Classic Kids: Music For The Dreaming 
Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show – The Really Really Really Really Boring Album
The Beanies – Imagination Station
The Wiggles – Party Time!

Best Comedy Release

Arj Barker – Organic
Carl Barron – Drinking With A Fork
Chris Lilley – Lunatics (Official Soundtrack)
Sammy J – Symphony In J Minor
Veronica & Lewis – Sex Flex: A Rap Guide To Fornication

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS 

Best Video presented by YouTube Music
Baker Boy – Cool As Hell 
Briggs – Life Is Incredible feat. Greg Holden
G Flip – Drink Too Much
Guy Sebastian – Choir 
Hilltop Hoods – Exit Sign feat. Illy & Ecca Vandal 
Jessica Mauboy – Little Things
PNAU – Solid Gold
Sampa The Great – Final Form 
Thelma Plum – Better In Blak 
Tones And I – Dance Monkey

Best Australian Live Act
Amy Shark – Amy Shark Australian Tour 
Baker Boy – Cool As Hell Tour
Electric Fields – 2000 And Whatever Tour 
Gang Of Youths – Say Yes To Life Tour
Hilltop Hoods – The Great Expanse World Tour 
Keith Urban – Graffiti U Tour 2019 
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australian Tour 2019
Midnight Oil – Midnight Oil 
Peking Duk – Peking Duk’s Biggest Tour Ever… So Far
The Teskey Brothers – The Teskey Brothers – Intimate Venue Tour 

Song Of The Year presented by YouTube Music
5 Seconds Of Summer – Easier 
Amy Shark – Mess Her Up 
Birds Of Tokyo – Good Lord 
Dean Lewis – 7 Minutes
Guy Sebastian – Choir 
Hilltop Hoods – Leave Me Lonely
Kian – Waiting 
Morgan Evans – Day Drunk 
Ocean Alley – Confidence
Tones and I – Dance Monkey

Best International Artist
Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next
Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
Ed Sheeran – No.6 Collaborations Project
George Ezra – Staying At Tamara’s
Khalid – Free Spirit 
P!nk – Hurts 2B Human 
Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding
Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift – Lover 
Travis Scott – Astroworld 

Telstra ARIA Music Teacher of the Year
Antonio Chiappetta (St Andrews College, Marayong, NSW)
Bel Skinner (North Regional TAFE, WA)
Julie Rennick (Gunnedah Conservatorium, NSW)
Lee Strickland (Narbethong State Special School, QLD)

ARTISAN AWARDS (PRE-ANNOUNCED)

Best Cover Art
WINNER: Emilie Pfitzner for Thelma Plum – Better in Blak 

Ben Jones for Amyl and The Sniffers – Amyl and The Sniffers 
Jonathan Zawada for Flume – Hi This is Flume (Mixtape) 
Nick Mckk for Julia Jacklin – Crushing
Lucy Dyson for Paul Kelly – Nature 
Emilie Pfitzner for Thelma Plum – Better In Blak  

Engineer Of The Year
WINNER: Sam Teskey for The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow 

Hilltop Hoods – The Great Expanse 
Burke Reid for Julia Jacklin – Crushing 
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – Patience 
Sam Teskey for The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow 
Konstantin Kersting for Tones And I – Dance Monkey 

Producer Of The Year
WINNER: Dann Hume for Matt Corby – Rainbow Valley 

Dann Hume for Matt Corby – Rainbow Valley
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – Patience
Burke Reid for Julia Jacklin – Crushing 
Paul Kelly and Steven Schram for Paul Kelly – Nature 
Konstantin Kersting for Tones And I – Dance Monkey

FINE ARTS AWARDS

Best Classical Album
WINNER: Paul Kelly, James Ledger – Thirteen Ways To Look At Birds 

Diana Doherty, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Westlake, David Robertson, Synergy Vocals – Nigel Westlake: Spirit of the Wild / Steve Reich: The Desert Music 
Genevieve Lacey – Soliloquy: Telemann Solo Fantasias  
Grigoryan Brothers, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey – Bach Concertos 
Nicole Car, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti – Heroines 
Paul Kelly, James Ledger – Thirteen Ways To Look At Birds 

Best Jazz Album
WINNER: Kate Ceberano and Paul Grabowsky – TRYST  

Andrea Keller – Transients Vol.1
Angela Davis – Little Did They Know  
Barney McAll – Zephyrix 
Kate Ceberano and Paul Grabowsky – TRYST 
Phil Slater – The Dark Pattern

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album
WINNER: Various Artists – The Recording Studio (Music From The TV Series)

Burkhard Dallwitz – LOCUSTS: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 
Gang Of Youths – MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne)
Luke Howard – The Sand That Ate The Sea
Trials – Cargo 
Various Artists – The Recording Studio (Music From The TV Series) 

Best World Music Album
WINNER: Melbourne Ska Orchestra – One Year Of Ska

Chaika – Arrow 
Joseph Tawadros – Betrayal of a Sacred Sunflower
Melbourne Ska Orchestra – One Year Of Ska
Tara Tiba – Omid 
Zela Margossian Quintet – Transition