ARIA Award for Best Country Album

The ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association, an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. Kasey Chambers has most wins with 9 awards from 9 nominations, more than any other artist or band in this category. Full nominees for 1988 are not available in published sources.

Year	Winner	Album Title
1987 (1st)	-	-
1987 (1st)	John Williamson	Mallee Boy
1987 (1st)	Jean Stafford	Burning Bright
1987 (1st)	Johnny Chester	There's a Shadow on the Moon Tonight
1987 (1st)	Slim Dusty	Stories I Wanted to Tell
1987 (1st)	The Three Chord Wonders	Try Change
1988 (2nd)	Flying Emus	This Town
1989 (3rd)	-	-
1989 (3rd)	John Williamson	Boomerang Café
1989 (3rd)	Flying Emus	"I Just Want to Dance With You"
1989 (3rd)	Slim Dusty	G'day, G'day!
1989 (3rd)	Smoky Dawson & Trevor Knight	High Country
1989 (3rd)	Jenine Vaughan	"Gypsy Man"
1990 (4th)	-	-
1990 (4th)	John Williamson	Warragul
1990 (4th)	Slim Dusty & Anne Kirkpatrick	Two Singers, One Song
1990 (4th)	Ted Egan	This Land Australia
1990 (4th)	The Flying Emus	Postcards From Paradise
1990 (4th)	The Happening Thang	The Happening Thang
1991 (5th)	-	-
1991 (5th)	James Blundell	Hand It Down
1991 (5th)	Luhrs & Crawford	Midnight In Paradise
1991 (5th)	Norma Murphy	Closer Now
1991 (5th)	Slim Dusty	Coming Home
1991 (5th)	Various Artists	Breaking Ground - New Directions in Country Music
1992 (6th)	-	-
1992 (6th)	Anne Kirkpatrick	Out of the Blue
1992 (6th)	James Blundell	"Time on His Hands"
1992 (6th)	Graeme Connors	Tropicali
1992 (6th)	Keith Urban	"Only You"
1992 (6th)	John Williamson	Waratah St
1993 (7th)	-	-
1993 (7th)	Lee Kernaghan	The Outback Club
1993 (7th)	James Blundell	This Road
1993 (7th)	Colin Buchanan	Hard Times
1993 (7th)	Keith Urban and Slim Dusty	"Lights on the Hill"
1993 (7th)	Brent Parlane	Brent Parlane
1994 (8th)	-	-
1994 (8th)	Lee Kernaghan	Three Chain Road
1994 (8th)	Graeme Connors	The Return
1994 (8th)	Slim Dusty	Ringer from the Top End
1994 (8th)	Anne Kirkpatrick	Game of Love
1994 (8th)	John Williamson	Love Is a Good Woman
1995 (9th)	-	-
1995 (9th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Beyond the Dancing
1995 (9th)	Slim Dusty	Natural High
1995 (9th)	Gina Jeffreys	The Flame
1995 (9th)	Lee Kernaghan	Country Crowd
1995 (9th)	Jane Saunders	Strangers to Your Heart
1996 (10th)	-	-
1996 (10th)	The Dead Ringer Band	Home Fires
1996 (10th)	Graeme Connors	The Here and Now
1996 (10th)	Lee Kernaghan	1959
1996 (10th)	Tania Kernaghan	December Moon
1996 (10th)	The Wheel	The Wheel
1997 (11th)	-	-
1997 (11th)	Graeme Connors	The Road Less Travelled
1997 (11th)	The Dead Ringer Band	Living in the Circle
1997 (11th)	The Ranch	The Ranch
1997 (11th)	Tina Martyn	Lying in My Bed
1997 (11th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	"True Believers"
1998 (12th)	-	-
1998 (12th)	Shanley Del	My Own Sweet Time
1998 (12th)	Colin Buchanan	Edge of the Kimberley
1998 (12th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	True Believer
1998 (12th)	Gina Jeffreys	Someboy's Daughter
1998 (12th)	The Wheel	Good Noise
1999 (13th)	-	-
1999 (13th)	Kasey Chambers	The Captain
1999 (13th)	Adam Brand	Adam Brand
1999 (13th)	Tania Kernaghan	Dancing on Water
1999 (13th)	Kedron Taylor	Every Place I Go
1999 (13th)	Various	Not So Dusty
2000 (14th)	-	-
2000 (14th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Big River
2000 (14th)	Adam Brand	Good Friends
2000 (14th)	Lee Kernaghan	Rules of the Road
2000 (14th)	Keith Urban	Keith Urban
2000 (14th)	John Williamson	The Way It Is
2001 (15th)	-	-
2001 (15th)	Slim Dusty	Looking Forward Looking Back
2001 (15th)	Audrey Auld	The Fallen
2001 (15th)	Beccy Cole	Wild at Heart
2001 (15th)	Gina Jeffreys	Angel
2001 (15th)	Sara Storer	Chasing Buffalo
2002 (16th)	-	-
2002 (16th)	Kasey Chambers	Barricades & Brickwalls
2002 (16th)	Adam Harvey	Workin' Overtime
2002 (16th)	Catherine Britt	Dusty Smiles and Heartbreak Cures
2002 (16th)	Lee Kernaghan	Electric Rodeo
2002 (16th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Long Way Home
2003 (17th)	-	-
2003 (17th)	Keith Urban	Golden Road
2003 (17th)	Adam Harvey	Cowboy Dreams
2003 (17th)	Beccy Cole	Little Victories
2003 (17th)	Bill Chambers	Sleeping with the Blues
2003 (17th)	Sara Storer	Beautiful Circle
2004 (18th)	-	-
2004 (18th)	Kasey Chambers	Wayward Angel
2004 (18th)	Adam Brand	Get Loud
2004 (18th)	Melinda Schneider	Family Tree
2004 (18th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Borrowed & Blue
2004 (18th)	Slim Dusty	Columbia Lane - the Last Sessions
2005 (19th)	-	-
2005 (19th)	Keith Urban	Be Here
2005 (19th)	Adam Harvey	Can't Settle For Less
2005 (19th)	Audrey Auld Mezera	Texas
2005 (19th)	Paul Kelly & the Stormwater Boys	Foggy Highway
2005 (19th)	Sara Storer	Firefly
2006 (20th)	-	-
2006 (20th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Brighter Day
2006 (20th)	Adam Brand	What a Life
2006 (20th)	Anne Kirkpatrick	Showman's Daughter
2006 (20th)	Catherine Britt	Too Far Gone
2006 (20th)	Lee Kernaghan	The New Bush
2007 (21st)	-	-
2007 (21st)	Keith Urban	Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing
2007 (21st)	Gina Jeffreys	Walks of Life
2007 (21st)	James Blundell	Ring Around the Moon
2007 (21st)	Lou Bradley	Love Someone
2007 (21st)	The Greencards	Veridian
2008 (22nd)	-	-
2008 (22nd)	Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson	Rattlin' Bones
2008 (22nd)	Catherine Britt	Little WildFlower
2008 (22nd)	Melinda Schneider	Be Yourself
2008 (22nd)	Sara Storer	Silver Skies
2008 (22nd)	The McClymonts	Chaos and Bright Lights
2009 (23rd)	-	-
2009 (23rd)	Troy Cassar-Daley	I Love This Place
2009 (23rd)	Felicity Urquhart	Landing Lights
2009 (23rd)	Jasmine Rae	Look It Up
2009 (23rd)	Keith Urban	Defying Gravity
2009 (23rd)	Shane Nicholson	Familiar Ghosts
2010 (24th)	-	-
2010 (24th)	The McClymonts	Wrapped Up Good
2010 (24th)	Adam Harvey	Both Sides Now
2010 (24th)	Catherine Britt	Catherine Britt
2010 (24th)	Jason Walker	Ceiling Sun Letters
2010 (24th)	Lee Kernaghan	Planet Country
2011 (25th)	-	-
2011 (25th)	Kasey Chambers	Little Bird
2011 (25th)	Jasmine Rae	Listen Here
2011 (25th)	Keith Urban	Get Closer
2011 (25th)	Shane Nicholson	Bad Machines
2011 (25th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Troy Cassar-Daley Live
2012 (26th)	-	-
2012 (26th)	The McClymonts	Two Worlds Collide
2012 (26th)	Beccy Cole	Songs & Pictures
2012 (26th)	Catherine Britt	Always Never Enough
2012 (26th)	McAlister Kemp	Country Proud
2012 (26th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Home
2013 (27th)	-	-
2013 (27th)	Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson	Wreck & Ruin
2013 (27th)	Jasmine Rae	If I Want To
2013 (27th)	Lee Kernaghan	Beautiful Noise
2013 (27th)	Sara Storer	Lovegrass
2013 (27th)	Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey	The Great Country Songbook
2014 (28th)	-	-
2014 (28th)	Kasey Chambers	Bittersweet
2014 (28th)	Adam Brand	My Side of the Street
2014 (28th)	Emma Swift	Emma Swift
2014 (28th)	Keith Urban	Fuse
2014 (28th)	The McClymonts	Here's to You & I
2015 (29th)	-	-
2015 (29th)	Shane Nicholson	Hell Breaks Loose
2015 (29th)	Catherine Britt	Boneshaker
2015 (29th)	Lee Kernaghan	Spirit of the Anzacs
2015 (29th)	Mustered Courage	White Lies and Melodies
2015 (29th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Freedom Ride
2016 (30th)	-	-
2016 (30th)	Sara Storer	Silos
2016 (30th)	Adam Brand and the Outlaws	Adam Brand and the Outlaws
2016 (30th)	Bill Chambers	Cold Trail
2016 (30th)	Fanny Lumsden	Small Town Big Shot
2016 (30th)	The Wolfe Brothers	This Crazy Life
2017 (31st)	-	-
2017 (31st)	Kasey Chambers	Dragonfly
2017 (31st)	Lee Kernaghan	The 25th Anniversary Album
2017 (31st)	O'Shea	61-615
2017 (31st)	Shane Nicholson	Love and Blood
2017 (31st)	The McClymonts	Endless
2018 (32nd)	-	-
2018 (32nd)	Kasey Chambers & the Fireside Disciples	Campfire
2018 (32nd)	Adam Eckersley & Brooke McClymont	Adam & Brooke
2018 (32nd)	Fanny Lumsden	Real Class Act
2018 (32nd)	The Wolfe Brothers	Country Heart
2018 (32nd)	Travis Collins	Brave & the Broken
2019 (33rd)	-	-
2019 (33rd)	Morgan Evans	Things That We Drink To
2019 (33rd)	Charlie Collins	Snowpine
2019 (33rd)	Felicity Urquhart	Frozen Rabbit
2019 (33rd)	Lee Kernaghan	Backroad Nation
2019 (33rd)	Sara Storer	Raindance
2020 (34th)	-	-
2020 (34th)	Fanny Lumsden	Fallow
2020 (34th)	Casey Barnes	Town of a Million Dreams
2020 (34th)	Jasmine Rae	Lion Side
2020 (34th)	The McClymonts	Mayhem to Madness
2020 (34th)	Travis Collins	Wreck Me
2021 (35th)	-	-
2021 (35th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	The World Today
2021 (35th)	Brad Cox	My Mind's Projection
2021 (35th)	Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham	The Song Club
2021 (35th)	Shane Nicholson	Living in Colour
2021 (35th)	The Wolfe Brothers	Kids on Cassette
2022 (36th)	-	-
2022 (36th)	Casey Barnes	Light It Up
2022 (36th)	Adam Brand	All or Nothing
2022 (36th)	Amber Lawrence	Living for the Highlights
2022 (36th)	Andy Golledge	Strength of a Queen
2022 (36th)	Georgia State Line	In Colour
2023 (37th)	-	-
2023 (37th)	Fanny Lumsden	Hey Dawn
2023 (37th)	Brad Cox	Acres
2023 (37th)	Brooke McClymont and Adam Eckersley	Up, Down & Sideways
2023 (37th)	Henry Wagons	South Of Everywhere
2023 (37th)	The Wolfe Brothers	Livin' The Dream
2024 (38th)	-	-
2024 (38th)	Troy Cassar-Daley	Between the Fires
2024 (38th)	Casey Barnes	Mayday
2024 (38th)	Henry Wagons	The Four Seasons
2024 (38th)	James Johnston	Raised Like That
2024 (38th)	Tori Forsyth	All We Have Is Who We Are
2025 (39th)	-	-
2025 (39th)	Kasey Chambers	Backbone
2025 (39th)	Dylan Wright	Half a World Away
2025 (39th)	Imogen Clark	Choking on Fuel
2025 (39th)	Keith Urban	High
2025 (39th)	Taylor Moss	Firecracker