2012 ARIA Award Winners - MusicNSW

Seems like Gotye is getting ready for world domination, taking away a total of four ARIA Awards in the awards ceremony last Thursday held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Gotye walked away with ARIAs for Best Male Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Australian Live Act and Album of the Year.

“There are a bunch of fantastic albums, especially by Australian artists, that I fell in love with this year … so keep listening to records and keep buying records, Wally De Backer (Gotye) told the ARIA crowd after accepting his last award of the night.

For the second year running Kimbra won Best Female Artist and 360 picked up an award for Breakthrough Artist Release. The Jezebels scored a win for Best Independent Release for their debut Prisoner.

See below for a full list of ARIA Award winners:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR – Making Mirrors, Gotye
BEST MALE ARTIST – Making Mirrors, Gotye
BEST FEMALE ARTIST – Vows, Kimbra
BEST GROUP – The Temper Trap, The Temper Trap
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST RELEASE – Falling & Flying, 360
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE – Prisoner, The Jezabels
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM – The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle, Missy Higgins
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM – Carried In Mind, Jeff Lang
BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL ALBUM – Bloodstreams, DZ Deathrays
BEST POP RELEASE – Making Mirrors, Gotye
BEST ROCK ALBUM – The Temper Trap, The Temper Trap
BEST URBAN ALBUM – Drinking From the Sun, Hilltop Hoods
BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM – Surfer Jeff, The Wiggles

BEST COMEDY RELEASE – Unappropriate, Buddy Goode
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM – The McClymonts
BEST DANCE RELEASE – In My Mind, Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl feat. Georgi Kay

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

ARIA SONG OF THE YEAR – “Brother,” Matt Corby
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST – One Direction
BEST AUSTRALIAN LIVE ACT – Gotye