ARIA Nominations Announced!

This is always a tremendously exciting time of year for lovers of Australian tunes. Soon warblers and strummers and rappers and all other types of music folk will be clasping the coveted shiny pointy award that is an ARIA and delivering speeches to the people, hopefully while under the influence. Who can we expect to see potentially embarrassing themselves at this year’s ARIA Awards with ill-advised on stage banter (and possibly flashing)?

See the full list of ARIA nominees after the jump!

Highest Selling Single

Delta Goodrem – In This Life (Sony BMG)

Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

The Potbelleez – Don’t Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)

The Veronicas – Untouched (Warner Music Australia)

The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)

Highest Selling Album

David Campbell – The Swing Sessions 2 (Sony BMG)

Delta Goodrem – Delta (Sony BMG)

Guy Sebastian – The Memphis Album (Sony BMG)

The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)

Tina Arena – Songs of Love and Loss (EMI)

Best Blues and Roots Album

Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (Capitol/EMI)

Jeff Lang – Half Seas Over (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)

Mia Dyson – Struck Down (Black Door Records/MGM)

The Audreys – When The Flood Comes (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)

The Waifs – Sun Dirt Water (Jarrah Records/MGM)

Best Dance Release

Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Mobin Master – Show Me Love (Safari Music/One Love Music/Sony BMG)

Pnau – Pnau (etcetc)

The Potbelleez – Don’t Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)

The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Best Urban Release

A-Love – Ace Of Hearts (Crookneck Records/Shogun Distribution)

Bliss ‘n Eso – Flying Colours (Illusive Sounds)

Katalyst – What’s Happening (Invada/Inertia)

Muph & Plutonic – … And Then Tomorrow Came (Obese Records)

Spit Syndicate – Towards The Light (Obese Records)

The Herd – Summerland (Elefant Traks/Inertia)

Best Independent Release

Ben Lee – Ripe (Inertia Recordings)

British India – Thieves (Flashpoint/Shock Entertainment)

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)

Lior – Corner Of An Endless Road (Independent/MGM)

Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (Siberia/Inertia)

Best Music DVD

Hilltop Hoods – City Of Light (Obese Records)

Paul Kelly – Live Apples (Capitol/EMI)

Powderfinger/Silverchair – Across the Great Divide (Universal Music Australia)

The John Butler Trio – Live At Federation Square (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)

Wolfmother – Please Experience Wolfmother (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Best Rock Album

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours (Aarght/Shock Entertainment)

Faker – Be The Twilight (Capitol/EMI)

Gyroscope – Breed Obsession (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)

The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Clare Bowditch – The Moon Looked On (Capitol/EMI)

Jimmy Barnes – Out In the Blue (Liberation Music)

Katie Noonan – Skin (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Robert Forster – The Evangelist (Capitol/EMI)

The Panics – Cruel Guards (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Pop Release

Gabriella Cilmi – Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Kylie Minogue – X (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Operator Please – Yes Yes Vindictive (Virgin/EMI)

Sam Sparro – Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)

The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)

Best Country Album

Catherine Britt – Little WildFlower (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Rattlin’ Bones (Liberation Music)

Melinda Schneider – Be Yourself (destraMusic/Sony)

Sara Storer – Silver Skies (EMI)

The McClymonts – Chaos and Bright Lights (Universal Music Australia)
Breakthrough Artist – Single

Angus & Julia Stone – The Beast (Capitol/EMI)

Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Sam Sparro – Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)

The Panics – Don’t Fight It (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

The Potbelleez – Don’t Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)

Breakthrough Artist – Album

Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (Capitol/EMI)

Gabriella Cilmi – Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (Siberia/Inertia)

Operator Please – Yes Yes Vindictive (Virgin/EMI)

Sam Sparro – Sam Sparro (Universal Music Australia)

Best Group

Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (Capitol/EMI)

Faker – Be The Twilight (Capitol/EMI)

Silverchair – If You Keep Losing Sleep (Eleven/Virgin/EMI)

The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Best Male Artist

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)

Nick Cave – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)

Paul Kelly – To Her Door (Live) (Capitol/EMI)

Pete Murray – Summer At Eureka (Columbia/Sony BMG)

Sam Sparro – Sam Sparro (Universal Music Australia)

Best Female Artist

Clare Bowditch – The Moon Looked On (Capitol/EMI)

Gabriella Cilmi – Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Holly Throsby – A Loud Call (Spunk/Virgin)

Kylie Minogue – X (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Missy Higgins – Peachy (Eleven/Virgin/EMI)

Single of the Year

Faker – This Heart Attack (Capitol/EMI)

Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)

Sam Sparro – Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)

The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

The Presets – My People (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Album of the Year

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Rattlin’ Bones (Liberation Music)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)

The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

And there you go.