The ARIA Awards — Australia’s answer to the Grammy Awards — arrive every fall amid plenty of hype. And this year several Eurovision acts have landed nominations, putting them front and centre in the country’s competitive music industry.

First set up in 1987, the ARIA Awards are brought to you by the Australian Recording Industry Association — a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. Besides closed-door jury votes, there are also categories where the public gets to pick the winner, including video and song of the year.

This year’s ceremony is set to take place on November 27 in the Sydney Star Event Centre. Hosting the show is none other than Guy Sebastian, Australia’s first contestant at Eurovision back in 2015. This year, YouTube music will work exclusively with the show’s producers, suggesting something very special may be in store.

ARIA Awards 2019: Eurovision nominees

Among the nominees are Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy and Electric Fields.

Guy will be very busy both as host and nominee across several categories. He’s notched up four nominations in the categories of Best Male Artist, Best Pop Release (for “Choir”) as well as Song of the Year (for “Choir”) and Best Video (for, guess what, “Choir”).

Jessica Mauboy struck gold on the Australian single charts this year. Her track “Little Things” became one of the biggest songs of the year in the country. Now it’s secured her a nod for Best Video. Our girl is also up in the category Best Female Artist.

Electric Fields has also kept their momentum going. The Australian duo are mostly known among Eurovision fans for their participation at Australia Decides with “2000 and Whatever”. Just losing out to Kate Miller-Heidke, they had a successful run nonetheless. They are now up for Best Australian Live Act for their “2000 and Whatever Tour”.

It’s now up to The Australian public to vote and decide whether Jess or Guy will win Best Video. But there’s strong competition from the likes of Tones and I and Hilltop Hoods.

Dami Im receives Australia’s Women In Music Humanitarian Award

But that’s not the end of the story! Dami Im, who just released her latest single “Crying Underwater”, also picked up an important accolade. The singer received this year’s humanitarian award at the Australian Women In Music Awards.

Dami Im expressed her gratitude on her personal Instagram account. In a post about her win, she stated that she’s “humbled to be awarded for something that I really love and believe in”. Previously, she worked together with Compassion Australia to improve living standards of people living in poverty. The award is another reflection of her continuous work to shape a better society.

Are you excited to see former Eurovision artists nominated? Who do you think will take some awards home this year? Let us know in the comments section down below!

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SAKIS88
4 years ago

ET ARFI ARCURI LOL TROP MIGNON ET UN TALENT INCROYABLE JE SUIS FAN

Preuss
Preuss
4 years ago

I think it shows that Australia, when they selected internally, were willing to send some very big acts to Eurovision. Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy were huge stars when they went to Eurovision and are still two of Australia’s most current artists. Question is if they will send someone less unknown now that “Australia Decides” is going on?

ESCFan2009
ESCFan2009
4 years ago
Reply to  Preuss

That is a good question and I think it depends on the song. In the first edition, Kate Miller-Heidke was already an established artist for I think 10 years in Australia, so she had a huge fanbase to rely on. If the producers would choose 10 completely unknown artists now, the “best” song would win very likely, cause nobody would have had a huge fanbase. But if there are big artists in the draw, then there could be a scenario “Superstar X with quite okay song” against “Newcomer Y with absolute bop” and then it will be very exciting, if… Read more »

ESCFan2009
ESCFan2009
4 years ago
Reply to  Preuss

Either my comment got filtered yesterday evening or I did sth wrong xD Short form: Will be exciting to see what happens if there are newcomers and established artists (like KMH) in Australia Decides: would the “best song” win when it’s by a newcomer or would the established artist win cause of his/her fanbase, although the song might be weaker…

yom124
yom124
4 years ago
Reply to  Preuss

Kate Miller Heidke has had arguably a much better and more prominent career than Jessica Mauboy. So I don´t really know where you are going with the ´´less unknown´´ comment.

Euphoria
Euphoria
4 years ago

Personally, I think that Electric Fields or Guy Sebastian would do a fantastic job participating or returning to the contest respectively