ARIA Award for Best Country Album
| ARIA Award for Best Country Album | |
|---|---|
2025 winner Kasey Chambers | |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |
| First award | 1987 |
| Currently held by | Kasey Chambers, Backbone (2025) |
| Most wins | Kasey Chambers (10) |
| Most nominations | Troy Cassar-Daley (14) |
| Website | ariaawards |
The ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[1] since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."[2]
Kasey Chambers holds the record for the most wins in this category, having won all ten of her nominations as a solo artist in addition to winning as a member of the Dead Ringer Band in 1996. Troy Cassar-Daley has the most nominations with 14 (15 counting the various artists album Not So Dusty), while Adam Brand and Catherine Britt are tied for the most nominations without a win with seven each. Three artists have won in two consecutive years; John Williamson in 1989 and 1990, Lee Kernaghan in 1993 and 1994, and Chambers in 2013 (for Wreck & Ruin, a collaboration with Shane Nicholson) and 2014 and again in 2017 and 2018.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.[3][4][5][6] Full nominees for 1988 are not available in published sources.[3]
Artists with multiple wins
- 11 wins
- 6 wins
- 3 wins
- 2 wins
Artists with multiple nominations
- 15 nominations
- 13 nominations
- 12 nominations
- 9 nominations
- 8 nominations
- 7 nominations
- 6 nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
- 2 nominations
Notes
- ^ Including one as a member of the Dead Ringer Band.
- ^ While Chambers has never won as a solo artist, he won once as a member of the Dead Ringer Band and is co-credited with two others as the Fireside Disciples on his daughter Kasey's album Campfire, which won in 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Including the various artists album Not So Dusty.
- ^ Including three as a member of the Dead Ringer Band.
- ^ a b c Including the various artists albums Breaking Ground – New Directions in Country Music and Not So Dusty.
- ^ Including six as a member of the McClymonts.
- ^ Including three as a member of the Dead Ringer Band and Campfire, an album by his daughter Kasey on which he and two others are co-credited as the Fireside Disciples.
- ^ Including the various artists album Breaking Ground – New Directions in Country Music.
References
- ^ "ARIA Awards 2011 overview". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "What We Do". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ a b ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards Best Country Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Aria Awards/2011 Album of the Year - 25th ARIA Awards 2011". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "ARIA Awards 1987.mov". YouTube. ARIA Official YouTube Account. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ "1991 Australian ARIA Award Nominations". Australian Recording Industry Association. 1991. Retrieved 13 June 2013.