2013 ARIA Music Awards

The 27th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) were a series of award ceremonies which included the 2013 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and ARIA Awards. The last ceremony, the ARIA Awards, occurred on 1 December at the Star Event Centre, and was telecast on Nine Network's channel Go! at 7:30pm.

The final nominees for ARIA Award categories were announced on 14 October as well as nominees and winners for Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards. Public votes were used for the categories, "Song of the Year", "Best Australian Live Act", "Best International Artist" and "Best Video".

At the 1 December ceremony, ARIA inducted Air Supply into their Hall of Fame, and created a new award category, ARIA Industry Icon, which was awarded to promoter and record label owner, Michael Gudinski.

Performers

The following artists performed at the ARIA Music Awards.

• Flume
• Tame Impala
• Birds of Tokyo
• Vance Joy
• Bliss n Eso
• Jessica Mauboy
• Samantha Jade
• Sheppard
• The Potbelleez
• Stafford Brothers
• Alison Wonderland
• Alicia Keys
• Lorde

ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee

• Air Supply – Upon the announcement of the group's induction into ARIA Hall of Fame, Russell Hitchcock, one of the two founders with Graham Russell, declared "[i]t is a great honour for us, and it was something that was totally unexpected". The pair were due to return to Australia for the ceremony and "have fun with everybody and we want to say thank you to all who participated in our ARIA Hall of Fame induction".

Nominees and winners

ARIA Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; other final nominees are listed alphabetically by artists' first name.

Fine Arts Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Artisan Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

See also

• Music of Australia

Notes

References

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