ARIA Award for Best Adult Alternative Album

The ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Alternative Album is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[1] and have been given by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987.[2]

ARIA Award for Best Adult Alternative Album
CountryAustralia
Presented byAustralian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
First awarded1994
Currently held bySarah Blasko, Eternal Return (2016)
Websiteariaawards.com.au

To be eligible for this award the album must be of an Adult Alternative genre by solo artists and groups; only album recordings are eligible; recordings must be directed toward Adult Alternative formats; the recording cannot be entered in any other genre category. Best Adult Alternative Album is judged by a specialist judging school of representatives experienced with the genre.[3]

Best Adult Alternative Album was first handed out in 1994. Up until 2001 it was called Best Alternative Release, which was awarded for an album or single release. From 2002 to 2009 the award was discontinued before being reinstated in 2010 under its current name. Again, from 2012 to 2015 the award was not presented until 2016 awards, the most recent ceremony.

You Am I and Regurgitator have won the most awards in this category with two each. You Am I have received the most nominations with five followed by Dirty Three, Regurgitator and Spiderbait with three and Magic Dirt, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Something for Kate with two. Martyn P. Casey, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos have earned three nominations each as members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Since the award's inception only six solo acts have been nominated with one artist, Sarah Blasko, winning in 2016 for her album Eternal Return.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per the ARIA Award ceremony.

Table key
Indicates the winner
You Am I won the award twice in 1994 and 1995. They have also received the most nominations with five.
Regurgitator won the award twice in 1996 and 1998.
Spiderbait were the winners in 1997 for their album Ivy and the Big Apples.
Dirty Three won the award in 2000 for their album Whatever You Love, You Are.
Art of Fighting received the award in 2001 for their album Wires.
Sarah Blasko is the only solo artist to win. She received the award in 2016 for her album Eternal Return.
Year Artist Album title Ref.
1994
(8th)		You Am ISound as Ever[4]
The CloudsThunderhead
CrowMy Kind of Pain
The Cruel SeaThe Honeymoon Is Over
Dave Graney & the Coral SnakesNight of the Wolverine
1995
(9th)		You Am IHi Fi Way[5]
CustardWahooti Fandango
Magic DirtLife Was Better
RegurgitatorRegurgitator
SilverchairFrogstomp
1996
(10th)		RegurgitatorTu-Plang[6]
Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsMurder Ballads
PollyannaLong Player
SpiderbaitThe Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
You Am IHourly, Daily
1997
(11th)		SpiderbaitIvy and the Big Apples[7]
Dirty ThreeHorse Stories
Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsThe Boatman's Call
The FauvesFuture Spa
PowderfingerDouble Allergic
1998
(12th)		RegurgitatorUnit[8]
Dirty ThreeOcean Songs
The Living End"Second Solution / Prisoner of Society"
The Paradise MotelFlight Paths
You Am I#4 Record
1999
(13th)		Not from ThereSand on Seven[9]
GerlingChildren of Telepathic Experiences
Tim RogersWhat Rhymes with Cars and Girls
Something for KateBeautiful Sharks
SpiderbaitGrand Slam
TendrilsSoaking Red
2000
(14th)		Dirty ThreeWhatever You Love, You Are[10]
28 Days"Rip It Up"
David BridieAct of Free Choice
Nokturnl"Neva Mend"
TumbleweedMumbo Jumbo
2001
(15th)		Art of FightingWires[11]
Big Heavy StuffSize of the Ocean
Magic DirtWhat Are Rockstars Doing Today
Something for KateEcholalia
You Am IDress Me Slowly
2002 - 2009No award given.[12]
2010
(24th)		Angus & Julia StoneDown the Way[13]
Basement BirdsBasement Birds
Clare BowditchModern Day Addiction
The Cat EmpireCinema
WashingtonI Believe You Liar
WhitleyGo Forth, Find Mammoth
2011
(25th)		Boy & BearMoonfire[14]
GrindermanGrinderman 2
Little RedMidnight Remember
Seeker Lover KeeperSeeker Lover Keeper
The PanicsRain on the Humming Wire
2012 - 2015No award given.[12]
2016
(30th)		Sarah BlaskoEternal Return[15]
Jarryd JamesThirty One
Matt CorbyTelluric
Peter GarrettA Version of Now
The Temper TrapThick as Thieves

References
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  2. "What We Do". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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  5. "Winners by Year 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  7. "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1997". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  8. "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1998: 12th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  9. "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1999". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  10. "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  11. "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2001: 15th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  12. "ARIA Music Awards - History - Winners by year". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 4 January 2017. The Adult Alternative Album Award was not given from 2002 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2015, according to the individual yearly award pages.
  13. "ARIA Awards 2010 : History: Winners by Year 2010: 24th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  14. "2011 ARIA Awards Winners By Year". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  15. Zuel, Bernard (5 October 2016). "ARIA Award nominations have a hairy surprise among the Flumes and Avalanches". The Age. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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