The APRA Music Awards celebrate excellence in contemporary music, honouring songwriters and publishers that have achieved artistic excellence and outstanding success in their fields.
Song of The Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | my happiness |
Artist: | powderfinger |
Writers: | Jonathan Coghill / John Collins / Ian Haug / Darren Middleton / Bernard Fanning |
Publisher: | Festival Music Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
Title: | the captain |
Artist: | Kasey Chambers |
Writer: | Kasey Chambers |
Publisher: | Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd |
Title: | damage |
Artist: | You Am I |
Writer: | Tim Rogers |
Publisher: | Festival Music Pty Ltd |
Title: | looking forward, looking back |
Artist: | Slim Dusty |
Writer: | Don Walker |
Publisher: | Rondor Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | shine |
Artist: | Vanessa Amorosi |
Writer: | Robert Parde / Vanessa Amorosi / Mark Holden |
Most Performed Australian Work | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Shine |
Artist: | vanessa amorosi |
Writers: | Robert Parde*, Vanessa Amorosi**, Mark Holden*** |
Publisher: | Standard Music Pty Ltd obo EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd * / Marjac Productions** / Dream Dealers Pty Ltd*** |
Nominees | |
Title: | affirmation |
Artist: | Savage Garden |
Writers: | Darren Hayes / Daniel Jones |
Publishers: | Rough Cut Music Pty Ltd administered by Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Crash And Burn |
Artist: | Savage Garden |
Writers: | Darren Hayes / Daniel Jones |
Publishers: | Rough Cut Music Pty Ltd administered by Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Desensitized |
Artist: | Invertigo |
Writers: | James Dingli / Vincent Dingli |
Publishers: | Standard Music Pty Ltd administered by EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | We Think It's Love |
Artist: | Leah Haywood |
Writers: | Leah Cooney / Jorgen Elofsson |
Publisher: | BMG Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
Most Performed Foreign Work | |
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Winner | |
Title: | BENT |
Artist: | matchbox twenty |
Writers: | robert thomas |
Publishers: | EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
Title: | Breathless |
Artist: | The Corrs |
Writers: | James Corr / Andrea Corr / Sharon Corr / Caroline Corr / Robert (Mutt) Lange |
Publisher: | Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd / BMG Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Pure Shores |
Artist: | All Saints |
Writers: | William Orbit / Shaznay Lewis |
Publishers: | Rondor Music Australia Pty Ltd, Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd, Mushroom Music Pty Ltd, Festival Music Pty Ltd |
Title: | Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely |
Artist: | Backstreet Boys |
Writers: | Martin Sandberg / Herbert Crichlow |
Publisher: | BMG Music Publishing Aust Pty LTd |
Title: | Sunshine On A Rainy Day |
Artist: | Christine Anu |
Writers: | Martin Glover / Zoe Pollock |
Publishers: | BMG Music Publishing Aust Pty Ltd, Festival Music Pty Ltd |
Most Performed Country Work | |
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Winner | |
Title: | The Captain |
Artist: | kasey chambers |
Writer: | kasey chambers |
Publisher: | Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
Title: | Beating Around The Bush |
Artist: | Adam Brand |
Writers: | Adam Brand / Wayne Burt |
Publisher: | Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd, Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Diggin A Hole |
Artist: | Slim Dusty |
Writer: | Christopher Cook |
Title: | Good Friends |
Artist: | Adam Brand |
Writer: | Graeme Connors |
Publisher: | Rondor Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Looking Forward Looking Back |
Artist: | Slim Dusty |
Writer: | Don Walker |
Publisher: | Rondor Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Between Five Bells |
Writer: | Peter Sculthorpe |
Publisher: | Boosey and Hawkes Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
Title: | piano concerto |
Writer: | Carl Vine |
Publisher: | Boosey and Hawkes Pty Ltd |
Title: | String quARTET NO 3 |
Writer: | Carl Vine |
Publisher: | Boosey and Hawkes Pty Ltd |
Title: | Symphony No 2 |
Writers: | Philip Bracanin / Judith McKinney / Wystan Auden |
Title: | Symphony No 3 |
Writer: | Philip Bracanin |
Most Performed Jazz Work | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Jungle Jive |
Artist: | jive bombers |
Writers: | Christopher Stafford / Peter Morand |
Nominees | |
Title: | Hook Line and Boatshed |
Artist: | Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo |
Writer: | Paul Williamson |
Title: | McGruff |
Artist: | Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo |
Writers: | Timothy Neal / Paul Williamson |
Title: | reason |
Artist: | Stephen Hunter |
Writer: | Stephen Hunter |
Title: | Unidentified Spaces |
Artist: | Ten Part Invention |
Writer: | Sandra Evans |
Best Television Theme | |
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Winner | |
Title: | olympic theme 2000 |
Writer: | Buckhard dallwitz |
Nominees | |
Title: | Dream Home |
Writer: | John Ertler |
Title: | farscape |
Writers: | Christopher Neal / Braedy Neal |
Title: | Last Warriors |
Writer: | Charlie Chan |
Title: | Something In The Air |
Writer: | Mark Walmsley |
Publisher: | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Best Film Score | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Better Than Sex |
Writer: | David Hirschfelder |
Publisher: | Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Nominees | |
Title: | innocence |
Writer: | Paul Grabowsky |
Title: | Looking for alibrandi |
Writer: | Alan John |
Title: | Me myself i |
Writer: | Charlie Chan |
Title: | Wogboy |
Writer: | Cezary Skubiszewski |
Publisher: | Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd |
Songwriters of the Year |
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Winner |
Ella Hooper / Jesse Hooper (Killing Heidi) |
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
Charles Fisher |
This list was created to celebrate APRA AMCOS' 75th anniversary. A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years, and the top ten songs were announced at the APRA Awards.
Top 10 Australian Songs | |
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1 | |
Title: | Friday on my mind |
Artist: | The Easybeats |
Writers: | Harry Vanda / George Young |
Publisher: | J Albert & Son Pty Ltd |
2 | |
Title: | Eagle Rock |
Artist: | Daddy Cool |
Writer: | Ross Wilson |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music Pty Ltd |
3 | |
Title: | Beds are burning |
Artist: | Midnight Oil |
Writers: | Rob Hirst / James Moginie / Peter Garrett |
Publisher: | Sony Music Publishing Australia |
4 | |
Title: | Down Under |
Artist: | Men at Work |
Writers: | Colin Hay / Ron Strykert |
Publisher: | EMI Songs Australia Pty Ltd |
5 | |
Title: | A Pub with No Beer |
Artist: | Slim Dusty |
Writer: | Gordon Parsons |
Publisher: | EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd |
6 | |
Title: | The Loved One |
Artist: | The Loved Ones |
Writers: | Ian Clyne, Gerry Humphrys, Robert Lovett |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music Pty Ltd |
7 | |
Title: | Don't Dream It's Over |
Artist: | Crowded House |
Writer: | Neil Finn |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music Pty Ltd |
8 | |
Title: | Khe San |
Artist: | Cold Chisel |
Writer: | Don Walker |
Publisher: | Rondor Music Australia Pty Ltd |
9 | |
Title: | It's A Long Way To The Top |
Artist: | AC/DC |
Writers: | Bon Scott / Angus Young / Malcolm Young |
Publisher: | J Albert & Son Pty Ltd |
10 | |
Title: | Quasimodo's Dream |
Artist: | The Reels |
Writer: | Dave Mason |
Publisher: | Festival Music Pty Ltd |
The rest of the Top 30 | |
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Title: | Along the Road to Gundagai |
Artist: | Jack O'Hagan |
Writer: | Jack O'Hagan |
Publisher: | Allans Music Australia |
Title: | The Real Thing |
Artist: | Russell Morris |
Writer: | Johnny Young |
Publisher: | Chappell & Co Australia |
Title: | I'll be Gone |
Artist: | Spectrum |
Writer: | Michael Rudd |
Publisher: | Cellar Music Co |
Title: | And the band played waltzing matilda |
Artist: | The Bushwackers |
Writer: | Eric Bogle |
Publisher: | Larrikin Music Publishing |
Title: | I'm Stranded |
Artist: | The Saints |
Writers: | Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | Cool Change |
Artist: | The Little River Band |
Writer: | Glenn Shorrock |
Publisher: | Warner Chappell Musici |
Title: | Science Fiction |
Artist: | Divinyls |
Writers: | Christina Amphlett / Mark McEntee |
Publisher: | EMI Music Publishing Australia |
Title: | Power and the passion |
Artist: | Midnight Oil |
Writers: | Robert Hirst / James Moginie / Peter Garrett |
Publisher: | Sony Music Publishing Australia |
Title: | Reckless |
Artist: | Australian Crawl |
Writer: | James Reyne |
Publisher: | Warner Chappell Music |
Title: | Cattle and cane |
Artist: | The Go-Betweens |
Writers: | Grant McLennan / Robert Forster |
Publishers: | Festival Music / Complete Music Ltd (PRS) |
Title: | I Was Only Nineteen |
Artist: | Redgum |
Writer: | John Schumann |
Publisher: | Universal/MCA Music Publishing |
Title: | Throw Your Arms Around Me |
Artist: | Hunters & Collectors |
Writers: | John Archer, Geoffrey Crosby, Douglas Falconer, Robert Miles, Mark Seymour, Michael Waters, John Howard |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | Wide Open Road |
Artist: | The Triffids |
Writer: | David McComb |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | To Her Door |
Artist: | Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls |
Writers: | Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | My Island Home |
Artists: | Warumpi Band (1988), Christine Anu (1995), Neil Murray |
Writer: | Neil Murray |
Publisher: | Rondor Music Australia |
Title: | The Ship Song |
Artist: | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |
Writer: | Nick Cave |
Publishers: | Mute Song (PRS) / Mushroom Music |
Title: | Treaty |
Artist: | Yothu Yindi |
Writers: | Paul Kelly, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Stuart Kellaway, Cal Williams, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Milkayngu Mununggurr, Witiyana Marika |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | Even When I'm Sleeping |
Artist: | Leonardo's Bride |
Writer: | Dean Manning |
Publisher: | Mushroom Music |
Title: | Truly Madly Deeply |
Artist: | Savage Garden |
Writers: | Darren Hayes / Daniel Jones |
Publishers: | EMI Music Publishing Australia / Rough Cut Music |
Title: | The Day You Come |
Artist: | Powderfinger |
Writers: | Jonathan Coghill, John Collins, Ian Haug, Darren Middleton, Bernard Fanning |
Publisher: | Universal Music Publishing |