Amy Shark never expected to be up for nine ARIA nominations

AMY Shark has a healthy approach to her recent successes. Although the singer is leading the ARIA Awards nominations, she knows not to count her chickens. She also randomly ran into a Hollywood star while she was in LA.

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AMY Shark has a healthy approach to her recent successes.

The Aussie singer is up for nine ARIA Awards at Aussie music’s biggest night next month, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Video for her hit single, I Said Hi, from the chart topping album, Love Monster.

Singer Amy Shark has described her nine ARIA nominations as a “silly amount.”. Picture: Brett Costello

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“It is a silly amount,” she said.

“I am up for things I never thought I’d be in the running for.”

Shark, who won two ARIA Awards last year (Best Pop Release and Breakthrough Artist), already took home a gong at the nominations announcement for this years awards when I Said Hi secured the Artisan and Fine Arts Award for Producer of the Year for Dann Hume and M-Phazes.

“When I look at all of them, it is overwhelming,” she told Confidential backstage at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards at the weekend.

“I got my friend to do the cover and for him (Steve Wyper) to be nominated for his photography and the art and to have Dan (Hume) and M-Phazes already win, I just broke into tears when I heard they’d won that.”

She has met Usher. Picture: Supplied

As well as Demi Lovato and Ruby Rose. Picture: Supplied

A grounded Shark, known also for her massive hit Adore, isn’t counting her chickens though.

“I’ve seen this happen before, people get nominated and things don’t happen in their favour. So it is just going to be another good night.”

Meanwhile, randomly last week on tour in the US, Shark met Hollywood actor Macauley Culkin when having dinner with husband Shane Billing at Los Angeles restaurant Carlitos.

She randomly met Home Alone star Macauley Culkin. Picture: Instagram/@amysharkmusic

“He overheard us talking and had been going to this restaurant for like 15 years or something and he randomly turned around and said we had to have the desert, ‘it is on me’,” Shark recalled.

“He spun his chair around and sat at our table. My song was on a show called Schitts Creek and he’d heard Adore on that, which is pretty cool.”

The 32nd annual ARIA Awards will be held at The Star Event Centre on November 28.