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

Click here to check out the rest of the artists.

Delta has done it again! According to Delta’s manager Jo Grogan (via twitter), Delta has landed herself yet another #1 DVD! This is Delta’s third #1 DVD in Australia!

Hip hip hooray @delta_goodrem you my darling have the #1 DVD in Australia – thanks to everyone so much!!!

Congratulations Delta!

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New candids of Delta and Brian going out to lunch have been added to the gallery here. Also, there’s new sets of rare photos added to the gallery. Delta outside of her hotel in 2006, more photos added of last year’s appearance with Brian at the Basement and finally, a brand new set of Delta backstage at the 2007 ARIA Awards.

Congratulations!

Congratulations on Delta for winning the award for ‘Highest Selling Album’ for the album ‘Delta’ at the 2008 Annual Aria Awards!! Unfortuneately Delta couldn’t make it at the awards, but left a awesome video message!! You can download it below:

[Video] Delta’s Aria Message (2008)
Highest Selling Album of the Year

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mgynynwvqmy
Delta Tube: http://www.delta-tube.com/video/1264/Delta…t-Selling-Album
Screencaps: http://delta-daily.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=959

6 Arias 2007 Photoshoot!

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9 New Non-Scan Instyle Photoshoot The first 9 are the non-scan ones!

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WHILE several top-quality new artists will be recognised at this year’s ARIA Awards, the biggest shock from the nominations event last week was the omission of two of our biggest pop acts: Delta Goodrem and Rogue Traders.

You could almost hear the gasps in the room at Redfern’s CarriageWorks when the nominations for best pop release were announced.

Neither Delta nor the Rogue Traders got a mention and most would have assumed they’d be certainties in that category. I certainly did.

Nominations went to Gabriella Cilmi, Kylie Minogue, Operator Please, Sam Sparro and The Veronicas.

And this scribe would have put money on Delta gettinga nod for best female artist,as well.

Instead she was nominated for highest-selling single (In This Life) and highest-selling album (Delta), failing to be recognised by her industry peers.

It’s actually the industry that votes for the awards: record label executives, artists, managers and media.

At this year’s awards all the attention will be on exciting newcomers Gabriella Cilmi and Sam Sparro, who scored six and five nominations respectively.

And it was the inspiring story of the blind former member of Yothu Yindi, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, and his four nominations for his acclaimed first solo release, Gurrumul, which had people talking.

Other fresh faces to garner ARIA nominations include The Herd, British India, Angus And Julia Stone, Midnight Juggernauts and Operator Please.

Insider has been saying for a long time how hot the Aussie dance music scene is and predicts the best dance release category will be one of the most fiercely fought awards of the night.

The nominated acts are Cut Copy, Mobin Master, Pnau, The Potbelleez and The Presets.

The overwhelming mood at the nominations event was one of excitement over the new batch of faces coming through the ranks.

The awards will be hosted by radio and television duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee at Acer Arena on October 19 and, as always, they’re shaping up to be a massive affair.

American pop star Pink will perform, as well as Sam Sparro, Gabriella Cilmi, The Living End and The Presets.