ARIA 2018 Nominations | Predictions

My picks/predictions/guesses in red and bold as below. Award ceremony to be held Wednesday November 28...

APPLE MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Gurrumul – Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) (SFM/MGM)
Pnau – Changa (etcetc Music)
Amy Shark – Love Monster (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Troye Sivan – Bloom (EMI)

BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Amy Shark – Love Monster (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Sia – Flames (What A Music Ltd, Under Exclusive Licence to Warner Music Group)
Tash Sultana – Flow State (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music)
Alison Wonderland – Awake (EMI)

BEST MALE ARTIST
Gurrumul – Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) (SFM/MGM)
Vance Joy – Nation Of Two (Liberation Records)
Dean Lewis – Be Alright (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Troye Sivan – Bloom (EMI)
Dan Sultan – Killer Under A Blood Moon (Liberation Records)

BEST GROUP
5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood (Capitol UK/EMI)
DMA’S – For Now (I OH YOU)
Peking Duk – Fire (Sony Music)
Pnau – Go Bang (etcetc Music)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – No Place (Sony Music)

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Mojo Juju – Native Tongue (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother (Nicky Boy Records/Caroline Australia)
Odette – To A Stranger (EMI)
Jack River – Sugar Mountain (I OH YOU)
Ruel – Dazed & Confused (RCA Records/Sony Music)

BEST POP RELEASE
5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood (Capitol UK/EMI)
Dean Lewis – Be Alright (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Jack River – Sugar Mountain (I OH YOU)
Amy Shark – Love Monster (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Troye Sivan – Bloom (EMI)

BEST DANCE RELEASE
Fisher – Losing It (etcetc Music)
Peking Duk – Fire (Sony Music)
Pnau – Go Bang (etcetc Music)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – No Place (Sony Music)
Alison Wonderland – Awake (EMI)

BEST URBAN RELEASE
360 – Vintage Modern (Forthwrite/EMI)
Esoterik – My Astral Plane (Flight Deck/Mushroom Group)
Hilltop Hoods – Clark Griswold (feat. Adrian Eagle) (Hilltop Hoods/Universal Music Australia)
Mojo Juju – Native Tongue (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Kerser – Engraved In The Game (ABK Records. Marketed & distributed by ADA, a division of Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd)

BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Missy Higgins – Solastalgia (Eleven: A Music Company/EMI Music)
Vance Joy – Nation Of Two (Liberation Records)
Odette – To A Stranger (EMI)
Dan Sultan – Killer Under A Blood Moon (Liberation Records)

BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
DMA’S – For Now (I OH YOU)
Gurrumul – Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) (SFM/MGM)
Pnau – Go Bang (etcetc Music)
Angus & Julia Stone – Snow (Angus & Julia Stone Pty Ltd/EMI)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Kasey Chambers & The Fireside Disciples – Campfire (Essence Group Entertainment. Marketed and distributed by Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd)
Travis Collins – Brave & The Broken (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Adam Eckersley & Brooke McClymont – Adam & Brooke (Lost Highway Australia /Universal Music Australia)
Fanny Lumsden – Real Class Act (Red Dirt Road/AWAL)
The Wolfe Brothers – Country Heart (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)

BEST ROCK ALBUM
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Luca Brasi – Stay (Cooking Vinyl Australia)
Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends (Poison City Records)
DMA’S – For Now (I OH YOU)
Middle Kids – Lost Friends (EMI)

BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL ALBUM
DZ Deathrays – Bloody Lovely (I OH YOU)
King Parrot – Ugly Produce (EVP Recordings/Rocket)
Parkway Drive – Reverence (Resist Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia)
Polaris – The Mortal Coil (Resist Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia)
West Thebarton – Different Beings Being Different (Domestic La La/Sony Music Entertainment)

BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM
Ruby Boots – Don’t Talk About It (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Mama Kin Spender – Golden Magnetic (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Angus & Julia Stone – Snow (Angus & Julia Stone Pty Ltd/EMI)
Tash Sultana – Flow State (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music)
Emily Wurramara – Milyakburra (Wantok Musik/MGM)

BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OR MUSICAL THEATRE CAST ALBUM
Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy: The Soundtracks (BLOODLINES)
LIARS – 1/1 (Original Soundtrack) (Mute/Inertia)
Jessica Mauboy – The Secret Daughter Season Two (Songs for the Original 7 Series) (Sony Music)
Evelyn Ida Morris – Acute Misfortune (Original Soundtrack) (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Various Artists – Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (The Original Cast Recording) (Global Creatures/Sony Music)

BEST CHILDRENS ALBUM
Justine Clarke – The Justine Clarke Show! (ABC KIDS/Universal Music Australia)
Lah-Lah – 10th Birthday Party (Stella Projects/Sony Music)
Sam Moran – Santa’s Coming! (Sony Music)
Teeny Tiny Stevies – Helpful Songs For Little People (ABC KIDS/Universal Music Australia)
The Wiggles – Wiggle Pop! (ABC KIDS/Universal Music Australia)

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

APPLE MUSIC SONG OF THE YEAR
5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood (Capitol UK/EMI)
Vance Joy – Lay It On Me (Liberation Records)
Dean Lewis – Be Alright (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Peking Duk – Fire/Reprisal (Sony Music)
Pnau – Go Bang (etcetc Music)
Conrad Sewell – Healing Hands (Sony Music)
Amy Shark – I Said Hi (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Sheppard – Coming Home (Chugg Music/MGM)
Troye Sivan – My My My! (EMI)
Angus & Julia Stone – Chateau (Angus & Julia Stone Pty Ltd/EMI)

BEST VIDEO
Courtney Barnett – Need A Little Time (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Client Liaison – Survival In The City (Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd)
Gang Of Youths – The Heart Is A Muscle (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
Mojo Juju – Native Tongue (ABC Music/Universal Music Australia)
Dean Lewis – Be Alright (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Peking Duk – Fire (Sony Music)
Pnau – Go Bang (etcetc Music)
The Presets – Do What You Want (Modular/EMI)
Amy Shark – I Said Hi (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Tash Sultana – Salvation (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music)

BEST AUSTRALIAN LIVE ACT
5 Seconds Of Summer – Meet You There Tour (Capitol UK/EMI)
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel National Tour (Milk! Records/Remote Control Records)
Client Liaison – Expo Liaison (Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd)
Gang Of Youths – 2017 National Tour (Mosy Recordings/Sony Music)
Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine Tour 2017 (EMI)
Dean Lewis – 2017 National Tour (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)
Peking Duk – The Wasted Tour (Sony Music)
Pnau – Pnau Changa Australian Tour (etcetc Music)
Amy Shark – Love Monster Tour (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Tash Sultana – Homecoming Tour (Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music)

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
Camila Cabello – Camila (Syco/Epic/Sony Music)
Drake – Scorpion & More Life (Republic/Universal Music)
Eminem – Revival & Kamikaze (Interscope/Universal Music)
Imagine Dragons – Evolve (Interscope/Universal Music)
Khalid – American Teen (RCA/Sony Music)
P!nk – Beautiful Trauma (RCA/Sony Music)
Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys & Stoney (Universal Music)
Ed Sheeran – ÷ (Warner Music)
Sam Smith – The Thrill Of It All (Capitol/EMI)
Taylor Swift – Reputation (Big Machine/Universal Music)