ARIA 2017 Nominations | Predictions

This years ARIA Awards are late November as per normal but this year they move to Channel Nine. As Channel Ten is broke as FUCK. Randomly some EP's get the nod for "Album" categories and Gang of Youths and A.B. Original could walk away with the line share of awards this year.

My predictions are bold in red below.

Album Of The Year
A.B. Original for  Reclaim Australia
Amy Shark for Night Thinker
Gang Of Youths for Go Farther In Lightness
Illy for Two Degrees
Paul Kelly for Life Is Fine

Best Male Artist
D.D Dumbo for Utopia Defeated
Dan Sultan for Killer
Illy for Two Degrees
Paul Kelly for Life Is Fine
Vance Joy for Lay It On Me

Best Female Artist
Amy Shark for Night Thinker
Jessica Mauboy The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)
Julia Jacklin Don’t Let The Kids Win
Meg Mac Low Blows
SIA 'The Greatest' feat. Kendrick Lamar

Best Dance Release
Dom Dolla & Torren Foot for 'Be Randy' 
Jagwar Ma for Every Now & Then
Peking Duk for 'Stranger (feat. Elliphant)'
Pnau for 'Chameleon' 
The Kite String Tangle for The Kite String Tangle

Best Group
A.B Original for “Reclaim Australia” 
Gang Of Youths for “Go Farther In Lightness” 
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard for “Flying Microtonal Banana”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for “Skeleton Tree” 
Peking Duk for “Stranger (feat. Elliphant)”

Breakthrough Artist
A.B Original for “Reclaim Australia”
Amy Shark for “Night Thinker”
Dean Lewis for “Waves” 
Tash Sultana for “Notion” 
Tkay Maidza for “TKAY”

Best Pop Release
Amy Shark for “Night Thinker” 
Dean Lewis for “Waves” 
Jessica Mauboy for “Fallin’’ 
SIA for “The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Vera Blue for “Perennial”

Best Urban Album
A.B Original for “Reclaim Australia” 
Illy for “Two Degrees
REMI for “Divas & Demons
Thundamentals for “Everyone We Know
Tkay Maidza for “TKAY

Best Independent Release
A.B Original for “Reclaim Australia”
Dan Sultan for “Killer”
SIA for “The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)”
Tash Sultana for “Notion”
Vance Joy for “Lay It On Me”

Best Rock Album
Dan Sultan for “Killer”
Dune Rats for “The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit"
Gang Of Youths for “Go Farther In Lightness”
Polish Club for “Alrighty Alrighty”
The Preatures for “Girlhood”

Best Adult Contemporary Album
Bernard Fanning for “Brutal Dawn”
D.D Dumbo for “Utopia Defeated”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for “Skeleton Tree”
Paul Kelly for “Life Is Fine”
Pete Murray for “Camacho”

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
Airbourne for “Breaking Outta Hell”
Frenzal Rhomb for “Hi-Vis High Tea”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard for “Murder Of The Universe”
Northlane for “Mesmer”
Sleepmakeswaves for “Made of Breath Only”

Best Blues & Roots Album
All Our Exes Live In Texas for “When We Fall”
Archie Roach for “Let Love Rule”
Busby Marou for “Postcards From The Shell House”
Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen for “Death’s Dateless Night”
Tash Sultana for “Notion”