Sarah Aarons has the edge leading into the 2024 APRA Music Awards, set for May 1 at ICC Sydney.
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With 3 nods, Sarah Aarons has the edge leading into the 2024 APRA Music Awards, set for Wednesday, May 1 at ICC Sydney, on Gadigal land.
The chasing pack is close behind, and consists of double candidates Troye Sivan, Budjerah, Ainslie Wills, Styalz Fuego, Amy Shark, The Kid LAROI, James Johnston and MAY-A.
Aarons, the Los Angeles-based, Melbourne-raised songwriter, has a boodle of APRA Awards in her collection. At the 2019 APRAs in her home town, Aarons gathered 4 circular prizes, consisting of the desirable, peer-voted APRA tune of the year. The list below year, she went into APRA AMCOS’s The 1,000,000,000 List for one billion streams of her Grammy-nominated “The Middle,” carried out by Zedd, Grey and Maren Morris; and won songwriter of the year at the inaugural Global APRA Music Awards in L.A. In 2015, Aarons collectively won tune of the year with Flume, for the EDM star’s “Say Nothing” including MAY-A.
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This time, she’s in the hunt for many carried out Australian work, the majority of carried out pop work, and APRA tune of the year with “Therapy,” co-written with Ajay Bhattacharyya and carried out by Budjerah.
Completing for APRA’s tune of the year, the night’s leading award, is previous winner Paul Kelly and the late David McComb (for “If Not Now”), Angie McMahon (“Letting Go”), Troye Sivan (for “Rush” with co-writer Styalz Fuego) and G Flip plus co-writer Aidan Hogg for “The Worst Person Alive.”
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Mega-stars Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith, and David Guetta are shortlisted for a lot of carried out worldwide work.
Organizers APRA ring in the modifications this year with the inaugural most carried out difficult rock/heavy metal work classification, which sees 5 heavyweights fight: Alpha Wolf (“60cm of Steel”), Parkway Drive (“Darker Still”), King Gizzard & & the Lizard Wizard (Dragon”), Polaris (“Inhumane”) and the Amity Affliction (“It’s Hell Down Here”).
And the development songwriter classification is relabelled emerging songwriter, with Beckah Amani, grentperez, MAY-A, Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell (Royel Otis), and Scarlett McKahey, Anna Ryan, Jaida Stephenson and Neve van Boxsel (Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers) splitting the shortlist.
Time APRA Award candidates consist of Tex Perkins, The Buoys, Frank Sultana, Alan Boyle and Christian Harvey (pka Blues Arcadia), Ian Moss, Dean Brady, Kaylee Bell, Skin on Skin, Forest Claudette, Elliott Hammond, Jordan Samatua, Jack Madin and Edward Service (Shouse), Parkway Drive, the Amity Affliction, Polaris, Alpha Wolf and more.
Developed in 1982, the Australasian Performing Right Association’s yearly songwriters’ event is among the Australian music market’s most cherished occasions, a deserving equivalent to Britain’s Ivor Novello Awards.
The unique minutes in the APRAs program consists of the efficiency of those tune of the year candidates,
