2014 ARIA Award nominations dominated by newcomers Chet Faker, 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea and Sheppard

IGGY Azalea and Sheppard are among a swag of first-time ARIA nominees this year, while stalwarts Tina Arena and Jimmy Barnes were almost shut out.

LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 20: Recording artist Iggy Azalea performs onstage during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 20, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

YOUNG Australian musical talent — from hipster heroes to female rappers, from boy bands to reality TV stars — have dominated this year’s ARIA Award nominations.

Melbourne musician Chet Faker has topped the list with nine nominations, including Best Male Artist and Album of the Year for his No. 1 record Built on Glass.

Released independently, his LP is on track to being one of the year’s highest selling Australian albums and combines soulful vocals with electronic technology. Chet Faker (born Nick Murphy) is also up for Best Dance Release for his collaboration with Flume, Drop the Game.

Melbourne musician Chet Faker has received the most ARIA nominations this year.

Brisbane band Sheppard, who also release their music independently, have picked up seven nominations including Album of the Year for their debut Bombs Away, Song of the Year for their chart-topper Geronimo and Best Group.

Adelaide export Sia is a virtual old-timer among this year’s nominees. She scored six nominations for her album 1000 Forms of Fear including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for Chandelier.

Sia has won four ARIA Awards in the past, including Best Pop Release in 2010 for We Are Born.

Melbourne musician Dan Sultan’s Blackbird album scored nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Best Rock Album.

NSW rapper Iggy Azalea, who left Australia years ago to crack the US market, has scored four nominations including Song of the Year for her American No. 1 Fancy, Best Urban Album for The New Classic, Breakthrough Artist and Best Female.

Dance band Rufus top off a big year with nominations for Best Group, Best Dance Release for their Atlas album and Best Australian Live Act.

In the past ARIA voters have tended to snub new pop acts until they’ve cut their teeth (see Guy Sebastian).

Brisbane band Sheppard are making waves internationally with their hit Geronimo.

However Sydney’s musical boy band 5 Seconds of Summer have broken through any potential snobbery, scoring four nominations for their self-titled debut album including Best Pop Release and Breakthrough Artist, while She Looks So Perfect is nominated in the public-voted Song of the Year category.

Dancers turned singers Justice Crew have seen their No. 1 Que Sera nominated for Best Pop Release, Song of the Year and Best Video. And young X Factor contestants Taylor Henderson and Nathaniel are both nominated in the public-voted Song of the Year category.

In a move that may surprise many Jessica Mauboy’s Beautiful has been nominated in the Album of the Year category, and the former Australian Idol star is also up for Best Female and Best Video for Pop a Bottle.

Far north Queensland export Dan Sultan is up for Best Rock Album, with some curious company.

Melbourne world-beater Vance Joy’s album Dream Your Life Away was released too late for voting in this year’s awards, but he scores nominations for Best Male Artist on the back of the single Mess is Mine.

Rapper 360’s Utopia is up for Best Urban Album, Chris Lilley’s Ja’ime is up for Best Comedy Release and Adelaide hip hop act Hilltop Hoods have three nominations including Best Group.

Industry veteran Russell Morris will be hoping to go back-to-back with a nomination for Best Blues and Roots Album for Van Diemen’s Land, but this year goes up against John Butler Trio.

Curiously, Sydney folk duo Angus and Julia Stone’s self-titled album is nominated in the Best Rock Album category alongside Jimmy Barnes, Dan Sultan, Kingswood and Ball Park Music.

Adelaide singer Sia’s return to music has seen her score more ARIA award nominations.

Two ARIA stalwarts were somewhat overlooked this year. Tina Arena’s Reset is nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album but bizarrely she did not receive a nomination in the Best Female Artist category, which will be won by either Adalita, Iggy Azalea, Kasey Chambers, Sia or Jessica Mauboy.

Likewise, while Jimmy Barnes’ 30:30 Hindsight scraped into the voting window to be nominated for Best Rock Album he was not nominated for best male. That category will be fought out between Vance Joy, Dan Sultan, Chet Faker, Gurrumul and Guy Sebastian.

Aside from the publicly voted categories, the awards were voted on by members of the local music industry.

Eleven Australian albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA chart this year, including INXS, Chet Faker, Jimmy Barnes, Kylie Minogue, Vance Joy and Sheppard.

Justice Crew’s Que Sera spent nine weeks at No. 1 to leapfrog Gotye, Savage Garden and Austen Tayshus as the longest-running Australian chart topper.

This year’s ARIA Awards will take place at The Star Sydney on November 26 and will be broadcast by Channel 10.

Tickets to the event go on sale 9am Monday from Ticketek, with performers and presenters announced shortly.

Reality TV stars Justice Crew have scored several ARIA award nominations.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Chet Faker — Built on Glass

Dan Sultan — Blackbird

Jessica Mauboy — Beautiful

Sheppard — Bombs Away

Sia — 1000 Forms of Fear

BEST FEMALE ARTIST

Adalita

Iggy Azalea

Jessica Mauboy

Kasey Chambers

Sia

BEST MALE ARTIST

Chet Faker

Dan Sultan

Gurrumul

Guy Sebastian

Vance Joy

BEST GROUP

5 Seconds of Summer

Hilltop Hoods

RUFUS

Sheppard

Violent Soho

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

Adam Brand — My Side of the Street

Emma Swift — Emma Swift

Kasey Chambers — Bittersweet

Keith Urban — Fuse

The McClymonts — Here’s To You & I

BEST DANCE RELEASE

Flume & Chet Faker — Drop the Game

Nicky Night Time — Everybody Together

Peking Duk — High

RUFUS — Sundream

The Presets — No Fun

BEST ROCK ALBUM

Angus & Julia Stone — Angus & Julia Stone

Ball Park Music — Puddinghead

Dan Sultan — Blackbird

Jimmy Barnes: 30:30 Hindsight

Kingswood — Microscopic Wars

BEST URBAN ALBUM

360 — Utopia

Hilltop Hoods — Walking Under Stars

Iggy Azalea — The New Classic

Illy — Cinematic

Thundamentals — So We Can Remember

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST

5 Seconds of Summer

Andy Bull

Chet Faker

Iggy Azalea

The Kite String Tangle

BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM

Gossling — Harvest of Gold

Kate Miller-Heidke — O Vertigo!

Neil Finn & Paul Kelly — Goin’ Your Way

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Live from KCRW

Tina Arena — Reset

Tina Arena photographed by Cybele Malinowski

BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM

Harry Hookey — Misdiagnosed

John Butler Trio — Flesh & Blood

Russell Morris — Van Diemen’s Land

The Audreys — `Til My Tears Roll Away

The Bamboos — Fever in the Road

BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL ALBUM

DZ Deathrays — Black Rat

High Tension — Death Beat

Shihad — FVEY

Sleepsmakewaves — Love of Cartography

The Amity Affliction — Let The Ocean Take Me

BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE

Chet Faker — Built on Glass

Dan Sultan — Blackbird

Sheppard — Bombs Away

Vance Joy — Mess is Mine

Violent Soho — Saramona Said

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

BEST AUSTRALIAN LIVE ACT

Boy & Bear

Dan Sultan

John Butler Trio

Keith Urban

Melbourne SKA Orchestra

RUFUS

Tame Impala

The Preatures

The Presets

Violent Soho

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST

Avicii

Beyonce

Coldplay

Ed Sheeran

Eminem

Jason Derulo

Katy Perry

Lorde

One Direction

Pharrell Williams

SONG OF THE YEAR

5 Seconds of Summer — She Looks So Perfect

Guy Sebastian — Like a Drum

Havana Brown — Warrior

Iggy Azalea — Fancy

Joel Fletcher — Swing

Justice Crew — Que Sera

Nathaniel — You

Sheppard — Geronimo

Sia — Chandelier

Taylor Henderson — Borrow My Heart

Originally published as 2014 ARIA Award nominations dominated by newcomers Chet Faker, 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea and Sheppard