ARIA Music Awards of 2011


The 25th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were a series of award ceremonies which included the 2011 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and ARIA Awards. The latter ceremony took place on 27 November at the Allphones Arena, Sydney, and was telecast on channel Go! at 7:30pm. The final nominees for ARIA Award categories were announced on 11 October as well as nominees and winners for Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards.
For the second time in ARIA Awards history, public votes were used for the categories, "Most Popular International Artist" and "Most Popular Australian Artist"; and for the first time for a new category "Most Popular Australian Live Artist".
The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted Kylie Minogue and The Wiggles – including former member Greg Page – on 27 November at the same ceremony as the ARIA Awards.

Presenters and performers

Presenters

The ARIA Hall of Fame induction occurred on 27 November 2011 as part of the overall ARIA Music Awards. Molly Meldrum introduced Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, who inducted Kylie Minogue; while actor, David Wenham, inducted The Wiggles – including former member Greg Page.

Nominees and winners

ARIA Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
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Album of the YearSingle of the Year

  • Boy & Bear – Moonfire
  • *Cut Copy – Zonoscope
  • *Eskimo Joe – Ghosts of the Past
  • *Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Rrakala
  • *Grinderman – Grinderman 2
  • Gotye featuring Kimbra – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Birds of Tokyo – "Wild at Heart"
  • *Boy & Bear – "Feeding Line"
  • *Drapht – "Rapunzel"
  • *Guy Sebastian featuring Eve – "Who's That Girl"
  • *The Jezabels – "Dark Storm"
    • Best Male ArtistBest Female Artist
  • Gotye – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Drapht – The Life of Riley
  • *Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist
  • *Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Rrakala
  • *Josh Pyke – "No One Wants a Lover"
  • Kimbra – "Cameo Lover"
  • *Adalita – Adalita
  • *Clare Bowditch – Are You Ready Yet?
  • *Kasey Chambers – Little Bird
  • *Washington – "Holy Moses"
    • Breakthrough Artist – AlbumBreakthrough Artist – Single
  • Boy & Bear – Moonfire
  • *Drapht – The Life of Riley
  • *Gypsy & The Cat – Gilgamesh
  • *Oh Mercy – Great Barrier Grief
  • *The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
  • Boy & Bear – "Feeding Line"
  • *Drapht – "Rapunzel"
  • *Havana Brown – "We Run the Night"
  • *The Jezabels – "Dark Storm"
  • *Zoë Badwi – "Freefallin"
    • Highest Selling AlbumHighest Selling Single
  • Altiyan Childs – Altiyan Childs
  • *Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way
  • *Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo
  • *Keith Urban – Get Closer
  • *Various – He Will Have His Way
  • Guy Sebastian featuring Eve – "Who's That Girl"
  • *Birds of Tokyo – "Plans"
  • *Gotye featuring Kimbra – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Havana Brown – "We Run the Night"
  • *Jessica Mauboy featuring Ludacris – "Saturday Night"
    • Best GroupBest Independent Release
  • 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
  • Art vs. Science – The Experiment
  • *Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Rrakala
  • *John Butler Trio – Live at Red Rocks
  • *Tex Perkins & the Dark Horses – Tex Perkins & the Dark Horses
  • *The Jezabels – Dark Storm
    • Best Children's AlbumBest Comedy Release
  • The Wiggles – Ukulele Baby
  • *Dirtgirlworld – Dig It
  • *Hi-5 – Turn the Music Up!
  • *Holly Throsby – See!
  • *Play School – Let's Play Together
  • Hamish & Andy – Celebrating 50 Glorious Years
  • *Adam Hills – Inflatable
  • *Buddy Goode – The One & Only Buddy Goode
  • *Josh Thomas – Josh Thomas Surprise Warehouse Comedy Festival
  • *Tim Minchin – Tim Minchin & the Heritage Orchestra
    • Best Dance ReleaseBest Pop Release
  • Cut Copy – Zonoscope
  • *Bag Raiders – Bag Raiders
  • *Miami Horror – Illumination
  • *Pnau – Soft Universe
  • *The Potbelleez – "From the Music"
  • Gotye featuring Kimbra – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Architecture in Helsinki – Moment Bends
  • *Guy Sebastian featuring Eve – "Who's That Girl?"
  • *Gypsy & the Cat – Gilgamesh
  • *Washington –"Holy Moses"
    • Best Adult Alternative AlbumBest Adult Contemporary Album
  • Boy & Bear – Moonfire
  • *Grinderman – Grinderman 2
  • *Little Red – Midnight Remember
  • *Seeker Lover Keeper – Seeker Lover Keeper
  • *The Panics – Rain on the Humming Wire
  • Billy Thorpe – Billy Thorpe's Tangier
  • *Colin Hay – Gathering Mercury
  • *Damien Leith – Roy
  • *John Farnham – Jack
  • *Mark Seymour & the Undertow – Undertow
    • Best Blues & Roots AlbumBest Urban Album
  • The Audreys – Sometimes the Stars
  • *Backsliders – Starvation Box
  • *Blue King Brown – Worldwize Part 1 – North & South
  • *John Butler Trio – Live at Red Rocks
  • *The Waifs – Temptation
  • Drapht – The Life of Riley
  • *Illy – The Chase
  • *Koolism – The 'Umu
  • *Phrase – Babylon
  • *Vents – Marked for Death
    • Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal AlbumBest Rock Album
  • Front End Loader – Ritardando
  • *Coerce – Ethereal Surrogate Saviour
  • *Cosmic Psychos – Glorius Barsteds
  • *Dream On, Dreamer – Heartbound
  • *Floating Me – Floating Me
  • The Living End – The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating
  • *Children Collide – Theory of Everything
  • *Eskimo Joe – Ghosts of the Past
  • *Jebediah – Kosciuszko
  • *Papa Vs Pretty – United in Isolation
    • Best Country AlbumMost Popular Australian Live Artist
  • Kasey Chambers – Little Bird
  • *Jasmine Rae – Listen Here
  • *Keith Urban – Get Closer
  • *Shane Nicholson – Bad Machines
  • *Troy Cassar-Daley – Troy Cassar-Daley Live
  • The Living End
  • *Birds of Tokyo
  • *Justice Crew
  • *Keith Urban
  • *Shannon Noll
    • Most Popular International ArtistMost Popular Australian Artist
  • P!nk
  • *Adele
  • *Chris Brown
  • *Jennifer Lopez
  • *Jessie J
  • *Ke$ha
  • *Lady Gaga
  • *LMFAO
  • *Pitbull
  • *Rihanna
  • Birds of Tokyo
  • *Altiyan Childs
  • *Angus & Julia Stone
  • *Drapht
  • *Guy Sebastian
  • *Jessica Mauboy
  • *John Farnham
  • *Justice Crew
  • *Keith Urban
  • *Stan Walker

    • Fine Arts Awards

    Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
    Best Classical Album

    Best Jazz Album
  • Elixir featuring Katie Noonan – First Seed Ripening
  • *Allan Browne, Marc Hannaford, Sam Anning – Shreveport Stomp
  • *Kristin Berardi and The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra – Kristin Berardi meets The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra
  • *Sarah McKenzie – Don't Tempt Me
  • *The Idea of North – Extraordinary Tale
    • Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album
  • Chris Lilley – Angry Boys – Official Soundtrack Album
  • *Jed Kurzel – Snowtown
  • *Stephen Pigram, Alan Pigram, Alex Lloyd – Mad Bastards – Music from the Motion Picture
  • *Sydney Symphony & cast, Alexander Briger – Don John of Austria
  • *Various Artists – Mary Poppins Australian Cast Recording
    • Best World Music Album
  • Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Rrakala
  • *David Bridie, Hein Arumisore, Jacob Rumbiak, Ronny Kareni, Donny Roem – Strange Birds in Paradise: A West Papuan Soundtrack
  • *Saltwater Band – Malk
  • *The Shaolin Afronauts – Flight of the Ancients
  • *Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, James & Joseph Tawadros – Band of Brothers
    • Best Music DVD
  • AC/DC – Live at River Plate
  • *Powderfinger – Sunsets Farewell Tour
  • *RocKwiz – Live National Tour
  • *Tex Perkins – The Man in Black
  • *Various Artists –Triple J's One Night Stand

    • Artisan Awards

    Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
    Best Cover ArtistBest Video

    • Alter – Zonoscope
    • *Aaron Hayward, David Homer, Debaser – The Experiment
    • *Carlo Santone – Rrakala
    • *David Homer, Aaron Hayward, Debaser – Billy Thorpe's Tangier
    • *Ken Done – Great Barrier Grief
  • Natasha Pincus – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Bart Borghesi – "Love Is a Drug"
  • *Carlo Santone – "Gopuru"
  • *David Michod, Flood Projects – "Loveless"
  • *Guy Franklin – "Cameo Lover"
    • Engineer of the YearProducer of the Year
  • François Tétaz – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Dave Parkin – "Rapunzel"
  • *Greg Clarke – Billy Thorpe's Tangier
  • *Matt Lovell – Ghosts of the Past
  • *Wayne Connolly – "No One Wants a Lover"
  • Wally De Backer – "Somebody That I Used to Know"
  • *Boy & Bear – Moonfire
  • *Daniel Denholm – Billy Thorpe's Tangier
  • *Eskimo Joe – Ghosts of the Past
  • *Wayne Connolly, Josh Pyke – "No One Wants a Lover"