2016 Aria Awards: Winners

The annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held last night, and this year celebrated the awards’ 30th anniversary.

The Aria Awards are like the American Music Awards, except, as you may have guessed, for Australians.

This year’s awards featured a host of talented artists from down under.

Here are some of the night’s biggest winners:

Best Pop Release

WINNER: Flume – “Never Be Like You” (feat. Kai)

Illy – “Papercuts” (feat. Vera Blue)

Sia – This Is Acting

The Veronicas – “In My Blood”

Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood

Best Video – voted by the public

WINNER: Troye Sivan – “YOUTH” Acoustic (Sydney Session)

Courtney Barnett – “Elevator Operator”

Delta Goodrem – “Dear Life”

Flume – “Never Be Like You” (feat. Kai)

Guy Sebastian – “Black & Blue”

Hilltop Hoods – “1955” (feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum)

Illy – “Papercuts” (feat. Vera Blue)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “People-Vultures”

Sia – “Cheap Thrills”

Violent Soho – “Like Soda”

Best Adult Contemporary Album

WINNER: Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk

Bob Evans – Car Boot Sale

Paul Kelly – Seven Sonnets & A Song

Robert Forster – Songs To Play