The ARIA Music Award for Best Rock Album , is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[ 1] since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."[ 2] To be eligible, the recording must be an album in the contemporary rock, modern rock and active rock formats , and cannot be entered in other genre categories. The accolade is voted for by the ARIA Judging Academy, which consists of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry, and is given to a solo artist or group who is either from Australia or an Australian resident.[ 3]
The award for Best Rock Album has been won by Powderfinger the most time, with three wins, for: Internationalist (1999), Odyssey Number Five (2000) and Vulture Street .[ 4]
Winners and nominees [ edit ] In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.
Winner marked in a separate colour
Year Winner(s) Album title 1998 (12th) The Superjesus Sumo The Angels Skin & Bone Moler Golden Duck Ricaine The Clarity of Distance The Screaming Jets World Gone Crazy 1999 (13th) Powderfinger Internationalist Cold Chisel The Last Wave of Summer Frenzal Rhomb A Man's Not a Camel Henry's Anger Personality Test Silverchair Neon Ballroom 2000 (14th) Killing Heidi Reflector Area-7 Bitter & Twisted Deadstar Somewhere Over the Radio Grinspoon Grinspoon Shihad The General Electric 2001 (15th) Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five The Living End Roll On The Mark of Cain This is This Motor Ace Five Star Laundry The Superjesus Jet Age 2002 (16th) Silverchair Diorama Alex Lloyd Watching Angels Mend Grinspoon New Detention Motor Ace Shoot This The Vines Highly Evolved 2003 (17th) Powderfinger Vulture Street Magic Dirt Tough Love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nocturama The Sleepy Jackson Lovers Something for Kate The Official Fiction 2004 (18th) Jet Get Born Dallas Crane Dallas Crane Eskimo Joe A Song Is a City The Living End Modern Artillery Spiderbait Tonight Alright 2005 (19th) Grinspoon Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills Evermore Dreams Little Birdy BigBigLove Shihad Love Is the New Hate The Cat Empire Two Shoes 2006 (20th) Wolfmother Wolfmother Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine The Living End State of Emergency You Am I Convicts 2007 (21st) Silverchair Young Modern Airbourne Runnin' Wild Grinspoon Alibis & Other Lies Jet Shine On Powderfinger Dream Days at the Hotel Existence 2008 (22nd) The Living End White Noise Eddy Current Suppression Ring Primary Colours Faker Be the Twilight Gyroscope Breed Obsession Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 2009 (23rd) AC/DC Black Ice The Drones Havilah Eskimo Joe Inshalla Jet Shaka Rock The Temper Trap Conditions 2010 (24th) Birds of Tokyo Birds of Tokyo Cloud Control Bliss Release Eddy Current Suppression Ring Rush to Relax Powderfinger Golden Rule Tame Impala Innerspeaker 2011 (25th) The Living End The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating Children Collide Theory of Everything Eskimo Joe Ghosts of the Past Jebediah Kosciuszko Papa Vs Pretty United in Isolation 2012 (26th) The Temper Trap The Temper Trap Children Collide Monument Cold Chisel No Plans Oh Mercy Deep Heat The Jezabels Prisoner 2013 (27th) Tame Impala Lonerism Birds of Tokyo March Fires Boy & Bear Harlequin Dream The Drones I See Seaweed The Rubens The Rubens 2014 (28th) Dan Sultan Blackbird Angus & Julia Stone Angus & Julia Stone Ball Park Music Puddinghead Jimmy Barnes 30:30 Hindsight Kingswood Microscopic Wars 2015 (29th) Tame Impala Currents Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis Gang of Youths The Positions The Preatures Blue Planet Eyes 2016 (30th) Violent Soho Waco Ball Park Music Every Night the Same Dream Boy & Bear Limit of Love Gang of Youths Let Me Be Clear The Living End Shift 2017 (31st) Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness Dan Sultan Killer Dune Rats The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit Polish Club Alright Already The Preatures Girlhood 2018 (32nd) Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Camp Cope How to Socialise & Make Friends DMA's For Now Luca Brasi Stay Middle Kids Lost Friends 2019 (33rd) Amyl and the Sniffers Amyl and the Sniffers Holy Holy My Own Pool of Light Jimmy Barnes My Criminal Record Midnight Oil Armistice Day: Live at the Domain, Sydney Skegss My Own Mess 2020 (34th) Tame Impala The Slow Rush Cold Chisel Blood Moon DMA's The Glow Ocean Alley Lonely Diamond Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK 2021 (35th) Middle Kids Today We're the Greatest AC/DC Power Up Ball Park Music Ball Park Music Holy Holy Hello My Beautiful World Midnight Oil The Makarrata Project 2022 (36th) Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort to Me Ball Park Music Weirder & Weirder Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime King Stingray King Stingray Spacey Jane Here Comes Everybody 2023 (37th) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Bad//Dreems Hoo Ha! DMA's How Many Dreams? G Flip Drummer Pacific Avenue Flowers
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