2013 ARIA Music Awards


The 27th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were a series of award ceremonies which included the 2013 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and ARIA Awards. The last ceremony, the ARIA Awards, occurred on 1 December at the Star Event Centre, and was telecast on Nine Network's channel Go! at 7:30pm.
The final nominees for ARIA Award categories were announced on 14 October as well as nominees and winners for Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards. Public votes were used for the categories, "Song of the Year", "Best Australian Live Act", "Best International Artist" and "Best Video".
At the 1 December ceremony, ARIA inducted Air Supply into their Hall of Fame, and created a new award category, ARIA Industry Icon, which was awarded to promoter and record label owner, Michael Gudinski.

Performers

The following artists performed at the ARIA Music Awards.

ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee

  • Air Supply – Upon the announcement of the group's induction into ARIA Hall of Fame, Russell Hitchcock, one of the two founders with Graham Russell, declared "t is a great honour for us, and it was something that was totally unexpected". The pair were due to return to Australia for the ceremony and "have fun with everybody and we want to say thank you to all who participated in our ARIA Hall of Fame induction".

Nominees and winners

ARIA Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; other final nominees are listed alphabetically by artists' first name.
Album of the YearBest Group

  • 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
    • Best Male ArtistBest Female Artist
  • Flume – Flume
  • *Guy Sebastian – Armageddon
  • *Keith Urban – "Little Bit of Everything"
  • *Matt Corby – "Resolution"
  • *Paul Kelly – Spring and Fall
  • Jessica Mauboy – "To the End of the Earth"
  • *Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse
  • *Emma Louise – vs Head vs Heart
  • *Missy Higgins – "Set Me on Fire"
  • *Sarah Blasko – I Awake
    • Breakthrough Artist – ReleaseBest Independent Release
  • Flume – Flume
  • *Big Scary – Not Art
  • *RÜFÜS – Atlas
  • *The Rubens – The Rubens
  • *Vance Joy – God Loves You When You're Dancing
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
  • *Big Scary – Not Art
  • *San Cisco – San Cisco
  • *Sheppard – "Let Me Down Easy"
  • *The Drones – I See Seaweed
    • Best Adult Contemporary AlbumBest Blues & Roots Album
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
  • *Bob Evans – Familiar Stranger
  • *Clare Bowditch – The Winter I Chose Happiness
  • *Josh Pyke – The Beginning and the End of Everything
  • *Sarah Blasko – I Awake
  • Russell Morris – Sharkmouth
  • *Archie Roach – Into the Bloodstream
  • *Mama Kin – The Magician's Daughter
  • *Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Melbourne Ska Orchestra
  • *The Cat Empire – Steal the Light
    • Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal AlbumBest Rock Album
  • Karnivool – Asymmetry
  • *Airbourne – Black Dog Barking
  • *Northlane – Singularity
  • *The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts
  • *Thy Art Is Murder – Hate
  • Tame Impala – Lonerism
  • *Birds of Tokyo – March Fires
  • *Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream
  • *The Drones – I See Seaweed
  • *The Rubens – The Rubens
    • Best Urban AlbumBest Country Album
  • Illy – Bring It Back
  • *Bliss n Eso – Circus in the Sky
  • *Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
  • *Seth Sentry – This Was Tomorrow
  • *Urthboy – Smokey's Haunt
  • Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson – Wreck & Ruin
  • *Jasmine Rae – If I Want To
  • *Lee Kernaghan – Beautiful Noise
  • *Sara Storer – Lovegrass
  • *Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey – The Great Country Songbook
    • Best Children's AlbumBest Comedy Release
  • Justine Clarke – A Little Day Out with Justine Clarke
  • *Giggle and Hoot – Claw Tapping Tunes
  • *Jay Laga'aia – Ten in the Bed
  • *Sam Moran – Play Along with Sam
  • *The Wiggles – Taking Off
  • Tom & Alex – The Bits We're Least Ashamed of
  • *Colin Buchanan – The TGIF Songs of Colin Buchanan
  • *Housos – Live
  • *Sammy J and Randy – Bin Night
  • *Pauly Fenech – Pauly's Shorts
    • Best Pop ReleaseBest Dance Release
  • Guy Sebastian – Armageddon
  • *Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune
  • *San Cisco – San Cisco
  • *The Preatures – "Is This How You Feel?"
  • *Vance Joy – God Loves You When You're Dancing
  • Flume – Flume
  • *Jagwar Ma – Howlin'
  • *The Potbelleez – "Saved in a Bottle"
  • *The Presets – Pacifica
  • *RÜFÜS – Atlas
    • Song of the YearBest Video
  • Matt Corby – "Resolution"
  • *Birds of Tokyo – "Lanterns"
  • *Bombs Away – "Party Bass"
  • *Flume – "Holdin On"
  • *Guy Sebastian – "Get Along"
  • *Justice Crew – "Best Night"
  • *Samantha Jade – "What You've Done to Me"
  • *Stafford Brothers – "Hello"
  • *Timomatic – "Parachute"
  • *Vance Joy – "Riptide"
  • Samantha Jade – "Firestarter" – Christopher Frey
  • *Birds of Tokyo – "Lanterns" – Josh Logue
  • *Flight Facilities – "Clair De Lune" – Dave Ma
  • *Flume – "Holdin On" – Joe Nappa
  • *Justice Crew – "Best Night" – Marc Furmie
  • *Matt Corby – "Resolution" – Bryce Jepson
  • *Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – "Jubilee Street" – John Hillcoat
  • *San Cisco – "Fred Astaire" – Andrew Nowrojee
  • *Timomatic – "Parachute" – Marc Furmie & Elisa Mercurio
  • *Vance Joy – "Riptide" – Dimitri Basil
    • Best Australian Live ActBest International Artist
  • Guy Sebastian
  • *Birds of Tokyo
  • *Flume
  • *Karnivool
  • *Keith Urban
  • *Matt Corby
  • *Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  • *Paul Kelly and Neil Finn
  • *Tame Impala
  • *The Drones
  • One Direction
  • *Birdy
  • *Bruno Mars
  • *Ed Sheeran
  • *Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
  • *Michael Bublé
  • *Mumford & Sons
  • *Of Monsters and Men
  • *P!nk
  • *Taylor Swift

    • Fine Arts Awards

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

    Best Jazz Album
  • The Idea of North – Smile
  • *Andrea Keller – Family Portraits
  • *Jonathan Zwartz – The Remembering & Forgetting of the Air
  • *Renée Geyer – Swing
  • *Tommy Emmanuel and Martin Taylor – The Colonel & the Governor
    • Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album
  • Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey & ANAM Musicians – Conversations with Ghosts
  • *David Bridie – Satellite Boy
  • *Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Lawless
  • *Tina Arena – Symphony of Life
  • *Various Artists – triple j's One Night Stand
    • Best World Music Album
  • Joseph Tawadros – Chameleons of the White Shadow
  • *Airileke – Weapon of Choice
  • *Rasa Duende – Improvisations
  • *Shellie Morris & The Borroloola Songwomen – Together We Are Strong – Ngambala Wigi Li – Wun the Song Peoples Sessions
  • *Various – Mélodie Française

    • Artisan Awards

    Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
    Best Cover Art

    Engineer of the Year
  • Virginia Read – Sally Whitwell – All Imperfect Things
  • *Dann Hume – Alpine – Seeing Red
  • *Kevin Parker – Tame Impala – Lonerism
  • *Nicky Bomba, Robin Mai – Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Melbourne Ska Orchestra
  • *Peter Mayes – Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune
    • Producer of the Year
  • Harley Streten – Flume – Flume
  • *Kevin Parker – Tame Impala – Lonerism
  • *Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes and Jonathan Sloan – Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune
  • *Virginia Read – Sally Whitwell – All Imperfect Things
  • *Wayne Connolly and Boy and Bear – Boy and Bear – Harlequin Dream