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Powderfinger, Hilltop Hoods, Angus & Julia Stone and Crowded House were among the fourteen Australian acts honoured this afternoon at ARIA’s #1 Chart Awards.
Artists, industry and media gathered at the Sydney Opera House function as ARIA honoured each artist who’d scored a #1 single, album or music DVD in the period from May 1, 2009 to July 19, 2010.
The event also presented two special end of the decade awards to Delta Goodrem and Guy Sebastian. Goodrem took out the accolade for highest-selling album for her debut Innocent Eyes, which has now gone 14 times platinum, while Sebastian scored the decade’s highest-selling single with his Idol anthem Angels Brought Me Here.
Hosted by Video Hits/Nova Melbourne host Dylan Lewis, the event featured keynote speeches from the ARIA Chart chairman John Parker and ARIA Chairman Ed St John.
St John told the crowd: “There are many measures of success in our industry – great reviews, sold-out shows, multiple hits on YouTube or MySpace. But there is still one measure that outshines all others, and that’s the act of climbing to the very top of the sales charts. Nothing else signals popularity like a Number One and it’s so exciting to see so many local artists ascending to these heady heights over the past year.”
In terms of labels, Universal scooped the pool this year with eight of the 14 awards, followed by three to Sony and one apiece to EMI, MGM and Warner.
The 14 artists who received an ARIA #1 Chart Award today (in chronological order) were:
Delta Goodrem – Believe Again Tour DVD (Sony Music)
#1 – September 28, 2009
