ARIA Achievement Awards

ARIA Achievement Awards and Icon Awards
CountryAustralia
Presented byAustralian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
First awarded1989
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The ARIA Achievement Awards and ARIA Icon Awards, are awards presented periodically at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", and are "awarded at the discretion of the ARIA Board."[1] They are handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."[2] The awards listed below are given periodically to Australian-based artists or industry personnel within the categories: ARIA Outstanding Achievement Awards (first presented in 1988), ARIA Special Achievement Awards (first in 1989), ARIA Lifetime Achievement Awards (first in 1991) and ARIA Icon Awards (first in 2013).

Awardees

Outstanding Achievement

In the following table, the awardee is highlighted in colour, and in boldface.[3]

  Awardees marked in colour
Year Awardee(s)
1988
(2nd) 		John Farnham
1989
(3rd) 		INXS
1990
(4th) 		Kylie Minogue
1991
(5th) 		Midnight Oil
1996
(10th) 		Silverchair
1997
(11th) 		Peter Andre
1998
(12th) 		Savage Garden
1999
(13th) 		Natalie Imbruglia
2000
(14th) 		Slim Dusty
Tina Arena
2001
(15th) 		Keith Urban
2002
(16th) 		Kylie Minogue
2003
(17th) 		The Wiggles
2015
(29th) 		Lee Kernaghan

Special Achievement

In the following table, the awardee is highlighted in colour, and in boldface.[4]

  Awardee marked in colour
Year Awardee(s)
1989
(3rd) 		Kylie Minogue
1992
(6th) 		Michael Gudinski
Mushroom Records
1993
(7th) 		Ian "Molly" Meldrum
1994
(8th) 		Stan Rofe
1996
(10th) 		Slim Dusty
1997
(11th) 		Charles Fisher
1999
(13th) 		Bill Armstrong
Ron Tudor
2000
(14th) 		Daryl Somers

Lifetime Achievement

In the following table, the awardee is highlighted in colour, and in boldface.[5]

  Awardee marked in colour
Year Awardee(s)
1991
(5th) 		Ted Albert
2007
(21st) 		John Woodruff
2008
(22nd) 		John Laws

Icon Awards

In the following table, the awardee is highlighted in colour, and in boldface.[6][7][8]

  Awardee marked in colour
Year Awardee(s)
2013
(27th) 		Michael Gudinski
2014
(28th) 		Denis Handlin[note 1]
2016
(30th) 		Sebastian Chase
2017
(31st) 		Roger Davies
2019
(33rd) 		Michael Chugg

Notes

  1. ^ In October 2021 the Board of ARIA withdrew Handlin's award[9] amid "multiple allegations of toxic culture" at Sony Australia while he was CEO.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "ARIA Awards – About". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. ^ "What We Do". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Winners by Award – Outstanding Achievement Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Winners by Award – Special Achievement Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Winners by Award – Lifetime Achievement Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Winners by Award – Icon Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Sony Music's Gang of Youths dominate memorable 2017 ARIA Awards ceremony". MediaWeek. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  8. ^ "2019 ARIA Award Winners Announced". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  9. ^ "A Statement from ARIA". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 15 October 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. ^ Burke, Kelly (21 June 2021). "Revealed: multiple allegations of toxic culture at Sony Music Australia as CEO Denis Handlin leaves | Australian music". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  11. ^ Tobin, Grace; Carter, Lucy; Russell, Ali (15 October 2021). "Former Sony Music boss Denis Handlin stripped of lifetime ARIA award after revelations of toxic work culture". ABC News. Retrieved 31 October 2021.