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1995 ARIA Music Awards | |
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Date | 20 October 1995 |
Venue | Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales |
Most awards | Silverchair (5) |
Most nominations | Silverchair (9) |
Website | ariaawards |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | Network Ten |
The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs ) was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. [1] [2] There had been a 18-month gap since the previous award ceremony which was moved to be "closer to the business end of the music industry's year" and so reflect that year's works. [1] [3] Presenters distributed 28 awards from 1060 eligible submissions. [3] Big winners for the year were Silverchair with five awards and Tina Arena with four, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year – both first time they were won by a female. [1] [3]
In addition to previous categories, the former category Best Pop/Dance Release was split into Best Pop Release and Best Dance Release. [3] Another new category Best World Music Album was also presented for the first time. [1] [3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: The Seekers. [1]
The ARIA Awards ceremony was hosted by radio and TV personality Richard Stubbs. [3] Presenters and performers were:
Presenter(s) | Performer(s) | Ref. |
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Peter Asher | Tina Arena | [3] |
Billy Birmingham | ||
Kimberley Davies | ||
Suze DeMarchi | Merril Bainbridge | |
Diesel | ||
Melissa Etheridge | ||
Dave Graney | Melissa Etheridge | |
Janet Jackson | ||
Gina Jeffreys | ||
Alison Drower/Ian Rogerson | Deni Hines/Renegade Funktrain/Swoop | |
Montell Jordan | ||
Hon | ||
Michael Lee | Screaming Jets | |
Molly Meldrum | ||
Rick Price | ||
Max Sharam | Silverchair, Tim Rogers – "New Race" | [4] |
Greedy Smith | Take That | [3] |
Michael Spiby | ||
Mandawuy Yunupingu | TISM | |
Adam Thompson | ||
Monica Trapaga | ||
Itch-E and Scratch-E won the inaugural award for Best Dance Release. [3] One of the duo, Paul Mac's acceptance speech included:
We'd like to thank all of Sydney's ecstasy dealers, without whom this award would not be possible. [5]
— Paul Mac, 20 October 1995
One of the sponsors of the ceremony was the National Drug Offensive, which withdrew their financial backing. The jargon term, ecstasy, for a psychoactive drug was bleeped for the TV broadcast. [5] In 2005 Mac explained that he did not expect to win and so had no speech prepared. [5]
Final nominees are shown, in plain, with winners in bold. [6]
The Hall of Fame inductee was:
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