ARIA_Music_Awards_of_1998

ARIA Music Awards of 1998

ARIA Music Awards of 1998

Annual Australian music awards

The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.[1][2] Presenters, including Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott Despoja and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, distributed 29 awards with the big winner Natalie Imbruglia receiving six trophies.[1][3]

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In addition to previous categories, a new category Best Rock Album, was presented to the Superjesus for Sumo. An Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Savage Garden for "world sales of 8 million and counting."[1][3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: the Angels and the Masters Apprentices.[1]

Ceremony details

The ceremony was hosted by comedian and TV presenter Paul McDermott with a capacity crowd of 1900 attending.[3] Presenters (see below for full list) distributed 29 trophies.[3] Best Group winners the Whitlams received their award from the group's namesake Gough Whitlam.[3] The former Prime Minister announced "It's my family."[4] Once on stage the members knelt at his feet.[4] Upon accepting Savage Garden's award for Outstanding Achievement – selling more than eight million copies world-wide – band member Darren Hayes reflected, "My nephew told me not to come home without the Wiggles' autographs."[3]

Presenters and performers

The ARIA Awards ceremony was hosted by Australian comedian and TV presenter Paul McDermott.[3] Presenters and performers were:

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Awards

Final nominees for awards are shown in plain, with winners in bold.

ARIA Awards

Fine Arts Awards

Artisan Awards

Outstanding Achievement Award

ARIA Hall of Fame inductees

The Hall of Fame inductees were:

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    ARIA lists this entry as "The Boys for Necks - The".[1]
  2. [N 2]
    ARIA lists Dave Dobson as one of three artists for "Now Until the Break of Day".[1] Opera tenor, David Hobson is described as a 1998 ARIA Award winner.[5]
  3. [N 3]
    The Shits were a duo renamed as Happyland consisting of (then) domestic partners Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator and Janet English of Spiderbait.[6]

    References

    1. [1]
      "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1998: 12th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
    2. [2]
      "Australia 1998 ARIA Awards". ALLdownunder.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
    3. [3]
      O'Grady, Anthony. "The 11th Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2001. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
    4. [4]
      Jenkins, Jeff; Meldrum, Molly (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1.
    5. [5]
      "David Hobson – Opera Singer". Professional singer biography. Emily Tapp Melanoma Foundation Inc. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
    6. [6]
      "Happyland > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
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