ARIA Awards are held every year and this year it was held on 25th November 2020. ARIA Awards 2020 Winners list will be mentioned below but before that, have a look at the category in which they all were nominated.
This year’s award show was held without an in-person audience and telecasted from the Star Event Centre. The nominees of the ARIA Awards was announced on 13th October via ARIA’s youtube channel.
ARIA Awards 2020 Winners Names

ARIA Awards 2020 Winners are mentioned below with the list of nominations in each category.
Aria Awards 2020 Album Of The Year
DMA’s – ‘THE GLOW’
Jessica Mauboy – ‘Hilda’
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’
Sampa The Great – ‘The Return’
Tame Impala – ‘The Slow Rush’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Male Artist
Archie Roach – ‘Tell Me Why’
Guy Sebastian – ‘Standing With You’
Ruel – ‘Free Time’
The Kid LAROI – ‘F*ck Love’
Troye Sivan – ‘In A Dream’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Female Artist
Amy Shark – ‘Everybody Rise’
Miiesha – ‘Nyaaringu’
Sampa The Great – ‘The Return’
Sia – ‘Together’
Tones And I – ‘Bad Child / Can’t Be Happy All the Time’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Dance Release
Alice Ivy – ‘Don’t Sleep’
Dom Dolla – ‘San Frandisco’ – winner
Flume – ‘Rushing Back feat. Vera Blue’
Northeast Party House – ‘Shelf Life’
Stace Cadet & KLP – ‘Energy’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Group
5 Seconds Of Summer – ‘CALM’
DMA’S – ‘THE GLOW’
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’
Tame Impala – ‘The Slow Rush’ – winner
The Teskey Brothers – ‘Live At The Forum’
Aria Awards 2020 Breakthrough Artist
Alex the Astronaut – ‘The Theory of Absolutely Nothing’
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’ – winner
Mallrat – ‘Driving Music’
Miiesha – ‘Nyaaringu’
The Kid LAROI – ‘F*ck Love’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Pop Release
Amy Shark – ‘Everybody Rise’ – winner
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’
Sia – ‘Together’
Tame Impala – ‘Lost In Yesterday’
Troye Sivan – ‘In A Dream’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Hip Hop Release
Baker Boy – ‘Meditjin feat. JessB’
Briggs – ‘Always Was EP’
Illy – ‘Last Laugh’
Sampa The Great – ‘The Return’ – winner
The Kid LAROI – ‘F*ck Love’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Soul/R&B Release
Genesis Owusu – ‘Don’t Need You’
KIAN – ‘Every Hour’
Miiesha – ‘Nyaaringu’ – winner
Tash Sultana – ‘Pretty Lady’
Tkay Maidza – ‘Last Year Was Weird, Vol.2’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Independent Release
Archie Roach – ‘Tell Me Why’
DMA’S – ‘THE GLOW’
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Ghosteen’
Sampa The Great – ‘The Return’ – winner
Aria Awards 2020 Best Rock Album
Cold Chisel – ‘Blood Moon’
DMA’S – ‘THE GLOW’
Ocean Alley – ‘Lonely Diamond’
Tame Impala – ‘The Slow Rush’ – winner
Violent Soho – ‘Everything Is A-OK’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Adult Contemporary Album
Archie Roach – ‘Tell Me Why’ – winner
Donny Benét – ‘Mr Experience’
Gordi – ‘Our Two Skins’
Josh Pyke – ‘Rome’
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Ghosteen’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Country Album
Casey Barnes – ‘Town of A Million Dreams’
Fanny Lumsden – ‘Fallow’ – winner
Jasmine Rae – ‘Lion Side’
The McClymonts – ‘Mayhem To Madness’
Travis Collins – ‘Wreck Me’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – ‘Chunky Shrapnel’ – winner
Parkway Drive – ‘Viva The Underdogs’
Polaris – ‘The Death Of Me’
The Amity Affliction – ‘Everyone Loves You…Once You Leave Them’
The Chats – ‘High Risk Behaviour’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Blues & Roots Album
The Teskey Brothers – ‘Live At The Forum’ – winner
Busby Marou – ‘The Great Divide’
Frank Yamma – ‘Tjukurpa: The Story’
Lucky Oceans – ‘Purple Sky (Songs Originally By Hank Williams)’
Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – ‘You Be The Lightning’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Children’s Album
Teeny Tiny Stevies – ‘Thoughtful Songs for Little People’ – winner
Diver City – ‘Welcome to Diver City’
The Vegetable Plot – ‘Season Two’
The Wiggles – ‘Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!’
Tiptoe Giants – ‘Colour the World’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Comedy Release
Anne Edmonds – ‘What’s Wrong With You?’ – winner
Bev Killick – ‘Crummy Mummy’
Celia Pacquola – ‘All Talk’
Megan Washington – ‘Just Jesus (feat. Chris Ryan)’
Tom Gleeson – ‘Joy’
Aria Awards 2020 Public Voted Awards
Aria Awards 2020 Best Video
Baker Boy – ‘Meditjin feat. JessB’
Guy Sebastian – ‘Standing With You’ – winner
Lime Cordiale – ‘Robbery’
PNAU feat. Vlossom – ‘Lucky’
Sampa The Great – ‘Time’s Up (feat. Krown)’
Tame Impala – ‘Is It True’
The Chats – ‘The Clap’
Tones And I – ‘Ur So F**kInG cOoL’
Troye Sivan – ‘Easy’
Violent Soho – ‘Pick It Up Again’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Australian Live Act
Amy Shark – Amy Shark Regional Tour – winner
Baker Boy – Falls Festival
Cold Chisel – Blood Moon Tour
DMA’S – Unplugged & Intimate | Laneway Festival
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – St Jerome’s Laneway Festival
Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly – Making Gravy 2019
PNAU – All Of Us Australian Tour
RÜFÜS DU SOL – 2019 Summer Festival Tour
Sampa The Great – The Return Australian Tour 2019
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow
Aria Awards 2020 Song of the Year
5 Seconds Of Summer – ‘Teeth’
Flume Feat. Vera Blue – ‘Rushing Back’
Hilltop Hoods Feat. Illy & Ecca Vandal – ‘Exit Sign’
Lime Cordiale – ‘Robbery’
Mallrat – ‘Charlie’
Ruel – ‘Painkiller’
Sam Fischer – ‘This City’
The Jungle Giants – ‘Heavy Hearted’
The Rubens – ‘Live In Life’
Tones and I – ‘Never Seen the Rain’
Aria Awards 2020 Best International Artist
Dua Lipa – ‘Future Nostalgia’
Eminem – ‘Music To Be Murdered By’
Halsey – ‘Manic’
Harry Styles – ‘Fine Line’
Juice WRLD – ‘Legends Never Die’
Justin Bieber – ‘Changes’
Lewis Capaldi – ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’
Lizzo – ‘Cuz I Love You’
Taylor Swift – ‘Folklore’
The Weekend – ‘After Hours’
Aria Awards 2020 Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award
CJ Shaw – Palmerston District Primary School, Canberra ACT
Kathryn McLennan – Virginia State School, Virginia QLD
Sarah Donnelley – Wilcannia Central School, Wilcannia NSW – winner
Thomas Fienberg – Evans High School, Blacktown, NSW
Aria Awards 2020 Artisan Awards
Updated list of Aria Awards 2020 artisan awards is here.
Aria Awards 2020 Best Cover Art
Donny Benét – ‘Mr Experience’
Jessica Mauboy – ‘Hilda’
Lime Cordiale – ’14 Steps To A Better You’
Violent Soho – ‘Everything Is A-OK’
WASHINGTON – ‘Batflowers’ – winner
Aria Awards 2020 Engineer Of The Year
Alice Ivy – ‘Don’t Sleep’
IAMMXO (aka Mohamed Komba) for Miiesha – ‘Nyaaringu’
Eric J Dubowsky for Ruel – ‘Free Time’
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – ‘The Slow Rush’ – winner
Greg Wales for Violent Soho – ‘Everything Is A-OK’
Aria Awards 2020 Producer Of The Year
Kevin Shirley for Cold Chisel – ‘Blood Moon’
DNA & Louis Schoorl for Jessica Mauboy – ‘Hilda’
IAMMXO (aka Mohamed Komba) for Miiesha – ‘Nyaaringu’
M-Phazes for Ruel – ‘Free Time’
Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – ‘The Slow Rush’ – winner
Aria Awards 2020 Fine Arts Awards
Updated list of Aria Awards 2020 fine arts awards.
Aria Awards 2020 Best Classical Album
Alicia Crossley – ‘Muse’
David Greco & Erin Helyard – ‘Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin’
Jayson Gillham, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Carter – ‘Beethoven Piano Concertos’
Richard Tognetti & Erin Helyard – ‘Beethoven & Mozart Violin Sonatas’ – winner
Slava & Sharon Grigoryan – ‘Our Place: Duets For Cello And Guitar’
Aria Awards 2020 Best Jazz Album
Katie Noonan – ‘The Sweetest Taboo’
Luke Howard – ‘All That Is Not Solid (Live At Tempo Rubato, Australia / 2020)’
Mike Nock; Hamish Stuart; Julien Wilson; Jonathan Zwartz – ‘This World’
Nat Bartsch – ‘Forever More’
Paul Kelly & Paul Grabowsky – ‘Please Leave Your Light On’ – winner
Aria Awards 2020 Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album
Chelsea Cullen – ‘I Am Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)’ – winner
Dan Golding – ‘Untitled Goose Game (Original Soundtrack)’
Grigoryan Brothers – ‘A Boy Called Sailboat’
Matteo Zingales & Antony Partos – ‘Mystery Road (Original Score: Seasons 1-2)’
Sally Seltmann & Darren Seltmann – ‘The Letdown (Music from Seasons 1+2)’
Aria Awards 2020 Best World Music Album
Grace Barbe – ‘FANM:WOMAN’
Joseph Tawadros – ‘Live At The Sydney Opera House’ – winner
Melbourne Ska Orchestra – ‘Live At The Triffid’
The Crooked Fiddle Band – ‘Another Subtle Atom Bomb’
Xylouris White – ‘The Sisypheans’
ARIA Awards 2020 Winners names list is announced. Enjoy reading and stay happy for favorite winners in each category.
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