Universal Music Australia (UMA), the Australian division of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment, today received ARIA nominations for its family of artists, labels and distributed partners across 17 categories, led by Troye Sivan (EMI Australia) and 3% (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group) who both received four nominations each across Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Best Group, Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist and more.

Hip Hop supergroup 3% represented by 1788 Records/Virgin Music Group (UMA) received four nominations for their KILL THE DEAD album in the categories Best Group presented by Stan, Best Hip Hop/Rap Release, Best Cover Art and in the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist category.

EMI Australia artist Troye Sivan also led nominations collecting four across prestigious categories of Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Best Pop Release and Song of the Year presented by YouTube for Something To Give Each Other. Last year, Troye Sivan won the most ARIA awards for his single ‘Rush’ including Song of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Engineer-Best Engineered Release (Styalz Fuego) and Producer – Best Produced Release (Styalz Fuego).

Tkay Maidza (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia) received two nominations for her second studio album Sweet Injustice across Best Solo Artist and Best Soul/R&B Release. Also nominated for two awards was Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun (EMI Music Australia/UMA) album Ask That God in Engineer - Best Engineered Release and Producer - Best Produced Release.

Universal Music Australia/UMG and its family of labels had the most artists nominated for Most Popular International Artist, including Ariana Grande (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia), Billie Eilish (Darkroom/Interscope/Universal Music Australia), Chappell Roan (Island Records USA/Universal Music Australia), Drake (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia), Olivia Rodrigo (Geffen/Universal Music Australia) and Taylor Swift (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia).

Missy Higgins represented by EMI Australia/Eleven and Barkaa represented by Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia (UMA) were both nominated for Best Australian Live Act presented by Destination NSW.

In the Best Video presented by YouTube category, Peach PRC and Josh Harris (Island Records Australia) collected a nomination for Time Of My Life, alongside Amyl and The Sniffers (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music Group), John Angus Stewart who were nominated for U Should Not Be Doing That.

Best Rock Album nominations went to Grinspoon (Universal Music Australia) for whatever, whatever and Middle Kids (EMI Australia) for Faith Crisis Pt 1. In the Best Classical Album, Grigoryan Brothers (Decca Australia/UMA) received a nomination for Amistad - Music For Two Guitars, alongside Orava Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon Australia/UMA) nominated for ORAWA and Sophie Hutchings (Mercury KX/UMA) who also received a nomination for A World Outside.

Kobie Dee (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia) collected a nomination for Best Hip Hop/Rap Release for Chapter 26, and received a nomination for Best Use of an Australian Recording in an Advertisement for NRL & AFL: Warriors & Storytellers, Fox Sports Australia.

Fanning Dempsey National Park (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia) received Best Adult Contemporary Album nomination for The Deluge, and Best Country Album nomination for Tori Forsyth (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia) album All We Have Is Who We Are.

In addition, this year The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) will recognise influential singer-songwriter and nine-time ARIA Award winner Missy Higgins (Universal Music Australia/EMI Australia), by inducting her into the ARIA Hall Of Fame during the 2024 ARIA Awards on Wednesday, 20 November.

President and CEO of Universal Music Australia, Sean Warner said, “It is truly amazing to see so many of our domestic artists recognised with nominations this year and I’m in complete awe of the pure talent and brilliance coming out of our UMA labels and the wider Australian music industry.

Our continued investment into helping our artists achieve creative and commercial success, as well as fostering long-term careers, by creating opportunities, programs, and support networks is driving our artists to tell their stories, share their identities and amplify their voices. A huge congratulations to all the artists receiving a nomination this year, it is an incredible line up of homegrown talent, and I’m looking forward to celebrating our UMA artists, labels and our team’s success at the 2024 ARIA Awards.”