Today, the 2026 ARIA nominations, were announced! How many awards will Tame Impala and Genesis Owusu win? They are up for loads!
Here are my picks/predictions/guesses in red & bold as below. The ARIA Awards will be held on Wednesday, 18 November, at the Hordern Pavilion, in iconic Sydney.
Album of the Year
BOY SODA — Soulstar [Warner Music Australia]
DMA'S — DMA'S [Wonderlick Recording Company / Sony Music]
Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Genesis Owusu — Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge [Ourness / Believe]
Tame Impala — Deadbeat [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Best Solo Artist
Baker Boy — Djandjay [Baker Boy Music Pty Ltd / Island Records Australia]
BOY SODA — Soulstar [Warner Music Australia]
Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
G Flip — Dream Ride [AWAL Recordings]
Genesis Owusu — Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge [Ourness / Believe]
Matt Corby — Tragic Magic [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Miss Kaninna — BLACKPRINT [Soul Has No Tempo / AWAL Recordings]
Ninajirachi — WannaCry [NLV RECORDS]
Tame Impala — Deadbeat [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Troye Sivan — She's The Best [EMI Music Australia]
Best Group
5 Seconds of Summer — Everyone's A Star! [Republic Records]
DMA'S — DMA'S [Wonderlick Recording Company / Sony Music]
Gang Of Youths — Things Take Time [Mosy Music / Sony Music]
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers — Glory [Community Music]
Vika & Linda — Where Do You Come From? [Mushroom Music]
Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist
aleksiah — Good On Paper [Chugg Music & Stellar Trigger / MGM]
Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Rachael Fahim — Who You Are [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Way Dynamic — Massive Shoe [Spoilsport Records] WILSN — Bloom [Mushroom Music]
WILSN — Bloom [Mushroom Music]
Best Pop Release
Blusher — Rager [Warner Music Australia]
G Flip — Dream Ride [AWAL Recordings]
Kylie Minogue — Tension Tour//Live 2025 [Mushroom Music]
Tame Impala — Dracula [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Troye Sivan — She's The Best [EMI Music Australia]
Best Dance / Electronic Release
Dean Turnley — Actin' Tough [CHAOS in collaboration with HOME//GRXWN]
Dom Dolla — Addicted to Bass [TMRW Music]
Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson — WannaCry [NLV RECORDS]
Tame Impala — Afterthought [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Yes Boone — All I Really Want [TMRW Music]
Best Hip Hop / Rap Release
Baker Boy — Djandjay [Baker Boy Music Pty Ltd / Island Records Australia]
DEVAURA — Vol. 2 If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry [Offbeat Collective / Xelon Digital]
Hilltop Hoods — Never Coming Home [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Miss Kaninna — BLACKPRINT [Soul Has No Tempo / AWAL Recordings]
Nerve — Growing Pains [Nerve MP3's / Xelon Digital]
Best Soul / R&B Release
Becca Hatch — Garden (Bang Goes the Drum) [G.Y.R.O.]
BOY SODA — Soulstar [Warner Music Australia]
Larissa Lambert — I Love You Out Loud [New Levels / Virgin Music Group]
Miss Kaninna — Backstreets [Soul Has No Tempo / AWAL Recordings]
Tkay Maidza — Romanticize [Dew Process / Universal Music Australia]
Best Independent Release
2charm — boyfriend [STAR SCUM RECORDS]
Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Genesis Owusu — REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE [Ourness / Believe]
Miss Kaninna — BLACKPRINT [Soul Has No Tempo / AWAL Recordings]
Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson — WannaCry [NLV RECORDS]
Best Rock Album
Courtney Barnett — Creature Of Habit [Fiction / Virgin Music Australia]
DMA'S — DMA'S [Wonderlick Recording Company / Sony Music]
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers — Glory [Community Music]
The Belair Lip Bombs — Again [Third Man Records / Rocket]
The Temper Trap — Sungazer [Mushroom Music]
Best Alternative Release
Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Gang Of Youths — Things Take Time [Mosy Music / Sony Music]
Genesis Owusu — REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE [Ourness/Believe]
Meg Mac — It's My Party [EMI Music Australia]
Tame Impala — Deadbeat [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Best Adult Contemporary Album
Matt Corby — Tragic Magic [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Paul Kelly — Seventy [EMI Music Australia]
The Paper Kites — If You Go There, I Hope You Find It [Wonderlick Recording Company]
Vika & Linda — Where Do You Come From? [Mushroom Music]
Way Dynamic — Massive Shoe [Spoilsport Records]
Best Country Album
Keith Urban — Flow State [MCA — NASHVILLE / EMI Music Australia]
Max Jackson — Dangerous in Denim [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Morgan Evans — Steel Town [Solrise Records / Virgin Music Group]
Rachael Fahim — Who You Are [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Wade Forster — Gooseneck Party [Community Music]
Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album
Cosmic Psychos — I Really Like Beer [G.Y.R.O.]
DZ Deathrays — Easing Out Of Control [DZ Worldwide / The Orchard]
Karnivool — In Verses [Cymatic Records / Sony Music]
These New South Whales — Godspeed [These New South Whales / ADA]
WAAX — Angel's Mess [AWAL/DRUNK ON POWER RECORDS]
Best Blues & Roots Album
Any Young Mechanic — The Modern Shoe Is Ruining The Foot [Warner Records]
Emma Donovan — Take Me To The River [Civilians / The Orchard]
John Butler — Prism [Jarrah Records/Metropolitan Groove Merchants]
William Crighton — Colonial Drift [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Xavier Rudd — Freedom Sessions/Where To Now [Salt.X Records / Virgin Music Group]
Best Children's Album
Bluey — Up Here (The Orchestral Album) [Demon Music Group / Rocket / Orchard]
Don Spencer — Feathers, Fur or Fins 40th Anniversary (Don Spencer & Friends) [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Emma Memma — Jungle Picnic [G.Y.R.O.]
Play School — Dance It Out [ABC Music / The Orchard]
The Wiggles — Sparkle!: A Circus Of Lights [Universal Music Australia]
Best Music Festival
Beyond The Valley 2025 — Untitled Group
CMC Rocks — CMC Rocks Pty Ltd
Groovin The Moo Lismore — Fuzzy Operations Pty Ltd
Laneway Festival — ST JEROME'S LANEWAY PTY LTD
Spilt Milk — Kicks Entertainment
Public Voted Awards
Best Video
Never The Same — BOY SODA, Adam Saunders [Warner Music Australia]
Running Low ft. Pardyalone — Baker Boy, Aurie Indianna & Jordan Ruyi Blanch [Baker Boy Music Pty Ltd / Island Records Australia]
Backstreets — Miss Kaninna, Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore [Soul Has No Tempo / AWAL Recordings]
My Baby's Place — DMA'S, Cole Surrey [Wonderlick Recording Company / Sony Music]
Cruising To Self Soothe — Ecca Vandal, Richie Buxton [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Stampede — Genesis Owusu, Isaac Brown [Ourness / Believe]
One More — James Johnston, Jared Hinz [Warner Music Australia]
Every Single Weekend — The Avalanches, Jonathan Zawada [Modular / EMI Music Australia]
Addicted to Bass — Dom Dolla, Kyle Caulfield & Charles Buxton-Leslie [TMRW Music]
Bed On Fire — G Flip, Tas Wilson [AWAL Recordings]
Best Australian Live Act
Baker Boy — Djandjay Tour [Handsome Tours]
BOY SODA — Lil Obsession Tour [Select Music]
Dom Dolla — Dom Dolla Australian Tour 2025 [Untitled & TEG Live Presents]
G Flip — Dream Ride Tour — Australia 2026
Gang Of Youths — Various
Genesis Owusu — Red Star Wu's Pirate Radio Tour [Frontier Touring]
Hilltop Hoods — Never Coming Home Tour [TEG Live & Blue Max Music]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Phantom Island Australian Tour
Ninajirachi — DARK CRYSTAL V [Laneway Presents & TEG Live]
Paul Kelly — Australian Tour 2025 [Frontier Touring]
Song of the Year
FISHER — Blackberries [etcetc Music Pty Ltd]
G Flip — Bed on Fire [AWAL Recordings]
Keli Holiday — Dancing2 [GROUP SPEED]
Lithe — Cannonball [10K / ADA]
Ocean Alley — Love Balloon [Independent / Community Music]
Royel Otis — car [Ourness / Capitol Records]
Sonny Fodera — Think About Us [Solotoko / ADA]
Tame Impala — Dracula [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
The Kid LAROI — A COLD PLAY [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Vance Joy — Divine Feelings [Mushroom Music]
Most Popular International Artist
BTS — ARIRANG [Virgin Music Group / Geffen]
Ed Sheeran — Play [Atlantic Records / Warner Music Australasia]
Harry Styles — Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally [Columbia / Sony Music]
Morgan Wallen — I'm The Problem [Universal Music International / Universal Music Australia]
Noah Kahan — The Great Divide [Universal Music International / Universal Music Australia]
Olivia Dean — The Art of Loving [Universal Music International / Universal Music Australia]
Olivia Rodrigo — you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love [Geffen / Universal Music Australia]
Sabrina Carpenter — Man's Best Friend [Island Records / Universal Music Australia]
sombr — I Barely Know Her [Warner Records / Warner Music Australasia]
Taylor Swift — The Life of a Showgirl [Republic Records / Universal Music Australia]
Best Cover Art
Aurie Indianna & Sulaiman Enayatzada for Baker Boy — Djandjay [Baker Boy Music Pty Ltd / Island Records Australia]
Connor Dewhurst for Amy Shark — soft pop [Wonderlick Recording Company / Sony Music]
Ecca Vandal, Kathryn Vinella, Sean McDonald for Ecca Vandal — Looking For People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings / Concord]
Kofi Owusu-Ansah, Isaac Brown, Gina Wagstaffe for Genesis Owusu — Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge [Ourness / Believe]
Miriam David and Pat Fox for Matt Corby — Tragic Magic [Island Records Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Engineer — Best Engineered Release
Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla — Don't Worry Baby [Good Fortune Records]
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala — Deadbeat [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Wave Racer for 2charm — Star Scum City [STAR SCUM RECORDS]
Styalz Fuego for Troye Sivan — She's The Best [EMI Music Australia]
Tony Buchen for DOBBY — Marshmallow [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Producer — Best Produced Release
Dann Hume / Andrew Klippel for Genesis Owusu — Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge [Ourness / Believe]
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala — Deadbeat [Columbia Records / Sony Music]
Ninajirachi for 2charm — Star Scum City [STAR SCUM RECORDS]
Ninajirachi / Porter Robinson for Ninajirachi — WannaCry [NLV RECORDS]
Styalz Fuego for Troye Sivan — She's The Best [EMI Music Australia]
Best Classical Album
Jayson Gillham — Chopin Etudes [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
Richard Tognetti — Australian Chamber Orchestra — Beethoven & Brahms Concertos for Violin and Orchestra [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
Simone Young & Sydney Symphony Orchestra — Mahler: Symphony No. 3 [Deautsche Grammophon Australia / Universal Music Australia]
Tamara-Anna Cislowska — Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra — Johannes Fritzsch — Elena Kats-Chernin: Ancient Letters [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
William Barton — Omega Ensemble — Gift — Our Breath of Life [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
Best Jazz Album
Donny Benét — Il Basso [Donnyland Records / The Orchard]
Hilary Geddes — Redleaf [Earshift Music]
Lauren Tsamouras & Tom Avegenicos — For Judy [ABC Jazz / The Orchard]
Ten Part Invention — Time Is moved [ABC Jazz / The Orchard]
The Vampires — Skydancer [Earshift / The Planet Company]
Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album
Ack Kinmonth — The Pout Pout Fish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Ack Music]
Amanda Brown — Deadloch Season 1 [Amazon Content Services under exclusive licence to Strange Loops Recordings]
Brian Cachia — Beast (Original Motion Picture Score) [BCMuse Studios / CDBaby]
Caitlin Yeo — Every Little Thing (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Strange Loops]
Francois Tetaz — My Brilliant Career [Netflix]
Best World Music Album
Melbourne Ska Orchestra — Monte Loco Rides Again [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Mo'Ju, Nicholas Buc and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra — Double J Live at the Wireless — Hamer Hall, Melbourne 2023 [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Not Drowning, Waving — Malira [ORiGiN Recordings / ADA]
Tenzin Choegyal & Philip Glass — Be The Sky [Orange Mountain Music]
The Cat Empire — Live At Sydney Opera House [BMG]
Our Soundtrack Our Ads - Best Use of an Australian Recording in an Advertisement
Fox Sports Australia Finals Footy — Fox Sports Australia, 3%, Fred Leone, Scribe
Paramount+: All Fired Up — AFC Women's Asian Cup — Hello, G Flip
Tourism WA: Walking On A Dream — Tourism WA, Empire of the Sun, West Australian Symphony Orchestra & Billy-Jo Shoveller
Toyota: Nice to Know it could. — THE HERO CORPORATION, Amyl and The Sniffers
Uber Eats: The Man LAROI — Special, The Kid LAROI
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