ARIA Awards 2024: indie duo Royel Otis leads nominations
The Sydney group will battle it out against heavyweights like Kylie Minogue and Troye Sivan for Album of the Year.
Sydney duo Royel Otis are the top nominees for the 2024 ARIA Awards, with eight nominations.
Their debut album, the jangly, lo-fi PRATTS & PAIN, which has amassed over 300 million streams, is recognised in several major categories, including Album of the Year and Best Independent Release. Meanwhile, the single Murder on the Dancefloor earned a nomination for Song of the Year.
“It’s literally crazy, we never could have pictured this,” the duo, made up of Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell, said. “We thought that last year was our only shot at the ARIAs with the nomination for Breakthrough Artist, so to receive eight this year is ridiculous; we were in complete shock!”
Dom Dolla isn’t far behind, with six nominations. The Melbourne producer, real name Dominic Matheson, was nominated for a Grammy this year in the Best Remix category for his reworking of Gorillaz’s “New Gold.” He is up for Best Solo Artist and Best Dance/Electronic Release for his dancefloor-primed single “Saving Up.” He expressed that being nominated six times left him speechless: “I grew up watching the ARIAs; they hold such a special place in Aussie music history and mean a lot to me as an Australian artist.”
Pop sensation Kylie Minogue — who this year won her second Grammy for her chart-topping earworm Padam Padam — is up for five awards. “This is beyond,” she said, adding that she was overwhelmed to be nominated in five categories and “thrilled to be amongst such wonderful company.” Angie McMahon, too, earned five nods for her starkly beautiful second album, Light, Dark, Light Again.
They lead artists like 3%, Amy Shark, RÜFÜS DU SOL, The Kid LAROI, Tones And I, and Grammy-nominated superstar Troye Sivan — who is currently tearing up arenas across the US with Charli XCX — all of whom snagged four nominations.
Shark, who has eight ARIA Award wins to her name, said that being nominated this year was “particularly special.”
“Sunday Sadness was an album three years in the making, and to be recognised in this way by ARIA is something I’ll never forget.”
Australian country music’s most awarded Golden Guitar winner, Troy Cassar-Daley, is up for three awards for his “most personal” album Between The Fires. “For it to be received with such love, critically and personally, has been a career highlight,” he said.
Confidence Man, FISHER, Mildlife, Miss Kaninna, SPEED, and Troy Cassar-Daley each received three nominations.
ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said that this year’s roster of nominees highlights “the huge shift in positive momentum that the Australian music industry experienced this year.”
“This year we get to celebrate a deep list of household names in Australian music that span all genres. It’s a time to acknowledge those who are achieving amazing things and spotlight those who are about to, to ensure we continue this momentum forward into 2025.”
2024 ARIA Award nominees
Album of the Year
Amy Shark – Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)
Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again [AWAL Recordings]
Kylie Minogue – Tension [Mushroom Music/BMG]
Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN [Ourness/Believe]
Troye Sivan – Something To Give Each Other [EMI Music Australia]
Best Solo Artist
Amy Shark – Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)
Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again [AWAL Recordings]
Dom Dolla – Saving Up [Three Six Zero/Sony Music]
Emma Donovan – Till My Song Is Done [Mushroom Music/BMG]
Kylie Minogue – Tension [Mushroom Music/BMG]
The Kid LAROI – THE FIRST TIME [DELUXE VERSION] [Columbia Records/Sony Music] Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice [Dew Process/Universal Music Australia] Tones And I – Beautifully Ordinary [Bad Batch Records/Sony Music]
Troy Cassar-Daley – Between The Fires [Tarampa Music/Sony Music] Troye Sivan – Something To Give Each Other [EMI Music Australia]
Best Group
3% – KILL THE DEAD [1788 Records/Virgin Music Group]
Hiatus Kaiyote – Love Heart Cheat Code [Brainfeeder/Inertia]
Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN [Ourness/Believe]
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Music is Better [Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia] SPEED – Only One Mode [Last Ride Records/ADA]
Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist
3% – KILL THE DEAD [1788 Records/Virgin Music Group]
Becca Hatch – MAYDAY [Forever Ever/SonyMusic
Kita Alexander – Young In Love [Warner Music Australia]
Sycco – Zorb [Future Classic]
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – I Love You [Domestic La La]
Best Pop Release
Amy Shark – Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)
Jessica Mauboy – Yours Forever (Warner Music Australia)
Kylie Minogue – Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)
The Kid LAROI – Girls (Columbia Records/Sony Music)
Troye Sivan – Something To Give Each Other (EMI Music Australia)
Best Dance / Electronic Release
Confidence Man – I CAN’T LOSE YOU (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music) CYRIL – Stumblin’ In (Spinnin’ Records/WMA)
Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)
FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander – Atmosphere (etcetc Music)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Music is Better (Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia)
Best Hip Hop / Rap Release
3% – KILL THE DEAD (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)
Kobie Dee – Chapter 26 (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)
Lithe – Fall Back (GSL/GYROstream)
ONEFOUR – Natural Habitat (ONEFOUR RECORDS)
The Kid LAROI – THE FIRST TIME [DELUXE VERSION] (Columbia Records/Sony Music)
Best Soul / R & B Release
Forest Claudette – Jupiter (Sony Music)
Milan Ring – Mangoes (Astral People Recordings/[PIAS])
Miss Kaninna – Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)
PANIC – WE STILL YOUNG (Say Less)
Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
Best Independent Release
Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)
Emily Wurramara – NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Kylie Minogue – Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)
Miss Kaninna – Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)
Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)
Best Rock Album
Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)
Grinspoon – whatever, whatever (Universal Music Australia)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (p (doom) records) Middle Kids – Faith Crisis Pt 1 (EMI Music Australia)
Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)
Best Adult Contemporary Album
Angus & Julia Stone – Cape Forestier (Sony Music)
Crowded House – Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA)
Emily Wurramara – NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Emma Donovan – Til My Song Is Done (Civilians)
Fanning Dempsey National Park – The Deluge (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
Best Country Album
Casey Barnes – Mayday (Casey Barnes Entertainment/Chugg Music)
Henry Wagons – The Four Seasons (Cheatin’ Hearts Records/ADA)
James Johnston – Raised Like That (Warner Music Australia)
Tori Forsyth – All We Have Is Who We Are (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia) Troy Cassar-Daley – Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)
Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album
C.O. F. F. I. N – Australia Stops (Damaged Records/Inertia)
Dune Rats – If It Sucks, Turn It Up (BMG/ADA)
Polaris – Fatalism (Resist/Civilians)
SPEED – Only One Mode (Last Ride Records/ADA)
Teenage Jones – The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest (Domestic La La)
Best Blues & Roots Album
Checkerboard Lounge – SUN Sessions (Cheersquad Records and Tapes) Dope Lemon – Kimosabè (BMG/ADA)
Georgia Mooney – Full Of Moon (Nettwerk Music Group)
Mia Dyson – Tender Heart (Metropolitan Groove Merchants)
The Paper Kites – At The Roundhouse (Wonderlick Recording Company)
Best Children’s Album
Bluey – Dance Mode! (Ludo Studios/Demon Demon Music Group/Rocket) E
mma Memma – Twirly Tunes (GYROstream)
Josh Pyke – It’s Gonna Be A Great, Great Day! (ABC Music/The Orchard)
The Wiggles – Wiggle and Learn: 100 Educational Songs for Children (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Zinzi & The Zillionaires – Zinzi & The Zillionaires (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Public voted awards
Best Video presented by YouTube
REAL LIFE LOVE – SPEED, Jack Rudder, Jem Siow, Thomas Elliot (Last Ride Records/ADA) Cold Treatment – Lime Cordiale, Jack Shepherd (Chugg Music/MGM)
U Should Not Be Doing That – Amyl and The Sniffers, John Angus Stewart (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music Group)
Time Of My Life – Peach PRC, Josh Harris (Island Records Australia)
Lately – RÜFÜS DU SOL, Katzki (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
Beautiful Eyes – Amy Shark, Marcario De Souza (Sony Music)
Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense – Budjerah, Michael O’Halloran [ONYX FILM] (Warner Music Australia) Dance With Me – Tones And I, Nick Kozakis and Sela Vai (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music) Blak Britney – Miss Kaninna, Will Hamilton-Coates (Soul Has No Tempo)
I CAN’T LOSE YOU – Confidence Man, Zac Dov Wiesel (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)
Best Australian Live Act
Angie McMahon – Making It Through Tour (AWAL Recordings)
Barkaa – BARKAA (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)
Confidence Man – Laneway Festival (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)
Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything Tour (Anchor & Hope/Remote Control Records)
Dom Dolla – DOM DOLLA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2023 (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)
King Stingray – Regional Run 2024 (Civilians/The Orchard)
Missy Higgins – The Second Act Tour 2024 (Eleven/EMI Music Australia)
Royel Otis – Royel Otis PRATTS & PAIN Tour (Ourness/Believe)
RÜFÜS DU SOL – RÜFÜS DU SOL 2024 Australian Summer Tour Dates (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)
Tones And I – P! nk Supported By Tones And I (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)
Song of the Year
CYRIL – Stumblin’ In (Spinnin’ Records/WMA)
Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)
FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander – Atmosphere (etcetc Music)
G Flip – The Worst Person Alive (Future Classic)
Jessica Mauboy Feat. Jason Derulo – Give You Love (Warner Music Australia) Kylie Minogue – Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)
Lithe – Fall Back (GSL, GYROstream)
Royel Otis – Murder on the Dance Floor – triple j Like A Version (ABC Music/The Orchard) The Kid LAROI – Nights Like This (Columbia Records/Sony Music)
Troye Sivan – Got Me Started (EMI Music Australia)
Most Popular International Artist
Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia) Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard And Soft (Darkroom/Interscope/Universal Music Australia) Chappell Roan – The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Island Records USA/Universal Music Australia)
Charli XCX – BRAT (Atlantic Records/Warner Music Australia)
Drake – For All The Dogs (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)
Olivia Rodrigo – Guts (Geffen/Universal Music Australia)
Tate McRae – Think Later (RCA Records/Sony Music Entertainment)
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia) Travis Scott – Utopia (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment)
Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan (Warner Records/Warner Music Australia)
ARIA Music Teacher Award
Casey Allen – PLC Sydney, Eora Nation, NSW
Hayley Wedding – Seaview High School, Kaurna Land, SA
Nathaniel Miller – Bulman School, Arnhem Land, NT
Susan Sukkar – Petersham Public School, Eora Nation, NSW
Artisan awards
Best Cover Art
Daniel Boyd and Nomad Create for KILL THE DEAD – 3% (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)
Giulia McGauran & Sam Chirnside for Tones And I – Beautifully Ordinary (Better Batch Records/Sony Music)
Louis Leimbach for Lime Cordiale – Enough Of Sweet Talk (Chugg Music/MGM)
Michael Bryers for Troy Cassar-Daley – Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)
Tomas Shanahan for Mildlife – Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)
Engineer – Best Engineered Release
Chris Collins for Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)
Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)
Eric J. Dubowsky for Angus & Julia Stone – Cape Forestier (Sony Music)
Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun – Ask That God (EMI Music Australia)
Tony Buchen for Mildlife – Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)
Producer – Best Produced Release
Chris Collins for Royel Otis – PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)
Crowded House & Steven Schram for Crowded House – Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA) Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)
FISHER for FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander – Atmosphere (etcetc Music)
Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun – Ask That God (EMI Music Australia)
Fine Arts awards
Best Classical Album
Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Richard Tognetti – Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 ‘Eroica’ (ABC Classic/The Orchard)
Grigoryan Brothers – Amistad – Music For Two Guitars (Decca Australia/UMA) Orava Quartet – ORAWA (Deutsche Grammophon Australia/UMA)
Sophie Hutchings – A World Outside (Mercury KX/UMA)
Veronique Serret – Migrating Bird (Migrating Bird Records/The Planet Company)
Best Jazz Album
Audrey Powne – From The Fire (Barely Breaking Even/The Orchard)
Elixir (feat. Katie Noonan, Zac Hurren & Ben Hauptmann) – A Small Shy Truth (ABC Jazz/The Orchard)
Mildlife – Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)
Tourismo – Torque (ABC Jazz/The Orchard)
Vanessa Perica Orchestra – The Eye is the First Circle (Vanessa Perica)
Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album presented by Stan Ack Kinmonth – Scarygirl (Independant)
Harlow – This is HARLOW (Music From Paper Dolls) (Helium/MGM)
Helena Czakja – Nemesis (Original Series Soundtrack) (ABC Music/The Orchard) Jackson Milas – The Way, My Way (Ambition Records/MGM)
Various Artists – Faraway Downs (DTS Productions/Sony Music)
Best World Music Album
Christine Anu – Waku (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Dobby – Warangu; River Story (ABC Music/The Orchard)
Joseph Tawadros – The Virtue of Signals (Independant/The Planet Company) Radical Son – Bilambiyal (Wantok Musik/The Planet Company)
Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator – History of House (Xelon Entertainment)