2011 will be remembered as a great year for Australian music but also the year at ARIA finally got the ARIA Awards right.
Gotye
Tonight was the night of Boy & Bear who won Album of the Year for ‘Moonfire’ and Gotye who was the year’s big winner.
Here is the complete list of ARIA Award Winners for 2011:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
SINGLE OF THE YEAR – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST MALE ARTIST – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST FEMALE ARTIST – Kimbra, Cameo Lover
BEST GROUP – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (ALBUM) – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (SINGLE) – Boy & Bear, Feeding Line
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE – Art vs Science, The Experiment
BEST ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM – Billy Thorpe, Billy Thorpe’s Tangier
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM – The Audreys, Sometimes the Stars
BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM – The Wiggles, Ukulele Baby!
BEST COMEDY RELEASE – Hamish & Andy, Celebrating 50 Glorious Years
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM – Kasey Chambers, Little Bird
BEST DANCE RELEASE – Cut Copy, Zonoscope
BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL ALBUM – Front End Loader, Ritardando
BEST POP RELEASE – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST ROCK ALBUM – The Living End, The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating
BEST URBAN ALBUM – Drapht, The Life of Riley
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM – Altiyan Childs, Altiyan Childs
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE – Guy Sebastian, Who’s that Girl (featuring Eve)
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM – Sally Whitwell, Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass
BEST JAZZ ALBUM – Elixir featuring Katie Noonan, First Seed Ripening
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/CAST/SHOW ALBUM – Chris Lilley, Angry Boys – Official Soundtrack Album
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Rrakala
BEST MUSIC DVD – AC/DC, AC/DC – Live at River Plate
BEST COVER ART – Alter, for Cut Copy, Zonoscope
BEST VIDEO – Natasha Pincus for Starkraving Productions, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
ENGINEER OF THE YEAR – Francois Tetaz, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – Wally De Backer, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
2011 PUBLIC VOTED ARIA AWARD WINNERS
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN ARTIST – Birds of Tokyo
MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL ARTIST – P!nk
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN LIVE ARTIST – The Living End
