List of Australian Grammy Award winners

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This list details Australian musicians, performers, producers and composers that have been successful in winning a Grammy Award. Many on the list have also been inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Hall of Fame. [1]

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A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) – or Grammy – is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognise outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on 4 May 1959, and it was set up to honour musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

Australian musicians and performers have produced a wide variety of popular music which has been commercially successful on the international scene. [2] [3] However, success at the Grammy Awards has been quite rare for Australian musicians. The first Australian to win a Grammy was Joan Sutherland in 1961. The most successful Australians (all of whom were not born in Australia) are The Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John and Keith Urban who have won 4 Grammy Awards each.

Categories

Record of the Year

Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a single song.

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2012 Gotye Somebody That I Used To Know Artist, producer & engineer/mixer; shared with Kimbra (artist), François Tétaz (engineer/mixer) & William Bowden (mastering engineer) [4]
1984 Terry Britten What's Love Got To Do With It Producer; shared with Tina Turner (artist) [5]
1974 Olivia Newton-John I Honestly Love You Artist; shared with John Farrar (producer) [6] [7]

Album of the Year

Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a full album.

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1978 Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack Shared with Various Artists [8] [9]
2016 Samuel Dixon Adele – 25 Shared with Various Artists [10] [11]

Song of the Year

Song of the Year is awarded to the composer(s) of the song.

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1984 Terry Britten What's Love Got To Do With It Shared with Graham Lyle [5]

Best New Artist

Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist (which is not necessarily their first proper release).

YearNameNotesRef
1982 Men at Work [12] [13]

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2012 Gotye Somebody That I Used To Know Shared with Kimbra [4]

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1978 Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack [8] [9]
1977 Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love [14]

Best Hard Rock Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2009 AC/DC War Machine [15]
2006 Wolfmother Woman [16]

Best Dance Recording

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2004 Kylie Minogue Come into My World [17]

Best Pop Dance Recording

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2024 Kylie Minogue Padam Padam [18]

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2022 Rüfüs Du Sol Alive

Best Dance/Electronic Album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2016 Flume Skin [19]

Best Alternative Music album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2012 Gotye Making Mirrors [4]

Best Rap Album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2015 M-Phazes The Marshall Mathers LP2 Producer; shared with Eminem (artist)

Best R&B Album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2021Mike Waters Bigger Love Songwriter; shared with John Legend (artist) [20] [21]

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1981 Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl [22]

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1974 Olivia Newton-John I Honestly Love You [6] [7]
1972 Helen Reddy I Am Woman [23] [24]

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1973 Olivia Newton-John Let Me Be There [25] [26]

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2010 Keith Urban 'Til Summer Comes Around [27]
2009 Keith Urban Sweet Thing [28]
2007 Keith Urban Stupid Boy [29]
2005 Keith Urban You'll Think of Me [30]

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1981 Joan Sutherland Live From Lincoln Center – Sutherland/Horne/PavarottiShared with Luciano Pavarotti & Marilyn Horne & Richard Bonynge (conductor) [31]

Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra)

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1961 Joan Sutherland The Art of the Prima DonnaShared with Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor) [32]

Video of the Year

YearNameTitleNotesRef
1982 Olivia Newton-John Physical [33]

Best New Age Album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2015Wouter Kellerman and Ricky KejWinds of Samsara Lamine Sonko - songwriter/vocalist

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

YearNameNotesRef
1978 Bee Gees Shared with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson [8] [9]

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2018 Hugh Jackman The Greatest Showman Shared with Various Artists [34]

Best Music Film

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2018Alan Hicks Quincy Shared with Quincy Jones, Rashida Jones (video director) and Paula DuPré Pesmen (video producer) [35]

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2009 David Jacques Live Revelations Full Credits: Third Day (Tai Anderson, David Carr, Mark Lee, Mac Powell), artist. Chris Biggs, David Jacques & Don McCollister, engineers/mixers. Third Day (Tai Anderson, David Carr, Mark Lee, Mac Powell), producer.

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2018 Paul Mabury You Say Shared with Lauren Daigle

Best Christian Music Album

YearNameAlbum TitleNotesRef
2018 Paul Mabury Look Up Child Shared with Lauren Daigle

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

In 2013 Best Small Ensemble Performance was renamed to Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. [36]

YearNameTitleNotesRef
2011Tim MunroMackey: Lonely Motel - Music From SlideFull credits: David Frost, producer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri & Nicholas Photinos), ensembles; Tom Lazarus, Mat Lejeune, Bill Maylone & Jon Zacks, engineers/mixers [37] [38]
2012Tim MunroEighth Blackbird: MeanwhileFull credits: Judith Sherman, producer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri, Tim Munro & Nicholas Photinos), ensembles; Bill Maylone, engineer/mixer [39] [38]
2015Tim MunroEighth Blackbird: FilamentFull credits: Bryce Dessner, producer; Jonathan Low, engineer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri, Tim Munro & Nicholas Photinos) [40] [41] [38] [42]

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