The ARIA Music Award for Album of the Year, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", 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." The award is handed out to an Australian group or solo artist who have had an album appear in the ARIA Top 100 Albums Chart between the eligibility period, and is voted for by a judging academy, which consists of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry. Both Powderfinger and Tame Impala have won the award three times, being the only artists with multiple wins. John Farnham and Silverchair are tied for the most nominations with five each.

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.ARIA Award previous winners.

Year Winner(s) Album Title 1987 John Farnham Whispering Jack Crowded House Crowded House Hunters & Collectors Human Frailty Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls Gossip Spy vs Spy A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. 1988 Icehouse Man of Colours 1989 Crowded House Temple of Low Men 1927 ...ish Big Pig Bonk The Black Sorrows Hold On To Me John Farnham Age of Reason 1990 Ian Moss Matchbook Kate Ceberano Brave Stephen Cummings A New Kind of Blue Hunters & Collectors Ghost Nation Paul Kelly & The Messengers So Much Water So Close To Home 1991 Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining The Black Sorrows Harley and Rose John Farnham Chain Reaction INXS X Margaret Urlich Safety in Numbers 1992 Baby Animals Baby Animals Crowded House Woodface Deborah Conway String of Pearls Died Pretty Doughboy Hollow Jimmy Barnes Soul Deep 1993 Diesel Hepfidelity Ed Kuepper Black Ticket Day Hunters & Collectors Cut Rockmelons Form 1 Planet Wendy Matthews Lily 1994 The Cruel Sea The Honeymoon Is Over The Badloves Get On Board Crowded House Together Alone Diesel The Lobbyist John Farnham Then Again 1995 Tina Arena Don't Ask Christine Anu Stylin' Up The Cruel Sea Three Legged Dog Silverchair Frogstomp You Am I Hi Fi Way 1996 You Am I Hourly, Daily Finn Finn John Farnham Romeo's Heart Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads Regurgitator Tu-Plang 1997 Savage Garden Savage Garden Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call Powderfinger Double Allergic Silverchair Freak Show Spiderbait Ivy and the Big Apples 1998 Regurgitator Unit Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle The Whitlams Eternal Nightcap You Am I #4 Record 1999 Powderfinger Internationalist Ben Lee Breathing Tornados The Living End The Living End Silverchair Neon Ballroom Spiderbait Grand Slam 2000 Killing Heidi Reflector Alex Lloyd Black the Sun David Bridie Act of Free Choice Savage Garden Affirmation Shihad The General Electric 2001 Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five The Avalanches Since I Left You Kylie Minogue Light Years Something for Kate Echolalia You Am I Dress Me Slowly 2002 Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls Alex Lloyd Watching Angels Mend George Polyserena Kylie Minogue Fever Silverchair Diorama 2003 Powderfinger Vulture Street Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes The Sleepy Jackson Lovers Something for Kate The Official Fiction The Waifs Up All Night 2004 Jet Get Born The Dissociatives The Dissociatives Eskimo Joe A Song Is a City The John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea Kasey Chambers Wayward Angel 2005 Missy Higgins The Sound of White Ben Lee Awake Is the New Sleep Evermore Dreams Keith Urban Be Here Sarah Blasko The Overture & the Underscore 2006 Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine The Sleepy Jackson Personality – One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird Wolfmother Wolfmother 2007 Silverchair Young Modern Gotye Mixed Blood The John Butler Trio Grand National Powderfinger Dream Days at the Hotel Existence Sneaky Sound System Sneaky Sound System 2008 The Presets Apocalypso Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Gurrumul Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson Rattlin' Bones The Living End White Noise Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 2009 Empire of the Sun Walking on a Dream AC/DC Black Ice Eskimo Joe Inshalla Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night The Temper Trap Conditions 2010 Angus & Julia Stone Down the Way Birds of Tokyo Birds of Tokyo Sia We Are Born Tame Impala InnerSpeaker Washington I Believe You Liar 2011 Boy & Bear Moonfire Cut Copy Zonoscope Eskimo Joe Ghosts of the Past Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Rrakala Grinderman Grinderman 2 2012 Gotye Making Mirrors 360 Falling & Flying Missy Higgins The Ol' Razzle Dazzle The Jezabels Prisoner The Temper Trap The Temper Trap 2013 Tame Impala Lonerism Birds of Tokyo March Fires Flume Flume Guy Sebastian Armageddon Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away 2014 Sia 1000 Forms of Fear Chet Faker Built on Glass Dan Sultan Blackbird Jessica Mauboy Beautiful Sheppard Bombs Away 2015 Tame Impala Currents Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Flight Facilities Down to Earth Hermitude Dark Night Sweet Light Vance Joy Dream Your Life Away 2016 Flume Skin RÜFÜS Bloom Sia This Is Acting The Avalanches Wildflower Troye Sivan Blue Neighbourhood 2017 Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness A.B. Original Reclaim Australia Amy Shark Night Thinker Illy Two Degrees Paul Kelly Life Is Fine 2018 Amy Shark Love Monster Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Gurrumul Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) Pnau Changa Troye Sivan Bloom 2019 Dean Lewis A Place We Knew Hilltop Hoods The Great Expanse Rüfüs Du Sol Solace The Teskey Brothers Run Home Slow Thelma Plum Better in Blak 2020 Tame Impala The Slow Rush DMA's The Glow Jessica Mauboy Hilda Lime Cordiale 14 Steps to a Better You Sampa the Great The Return 2021 Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth Amy Shark Cry Forever Midnight Oil The Makarrata Project The Avalanches We Will Always Love You Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse 2022 Baker Boy Gela Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort to Me Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime King Stingray King Stingray Rüfüs Du Sol Surrender 2023 Genesis Owusu Struggler DMA's How Many Dreams? G Flip Drummer Matt Corby Everything's Fine The Teskey Brothers The Winding Way 2024 Troye Sivan Something to Give Each Other Amy Shark Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon Light, Dark, Light Again Kylie Minogue Tension Royel Otis Pratts & Pain 2025 Amyl and the Sniffers Cartoon Darkness Missy Higgins The Second Act Ninajirachi I Love My Computer Rüfüs Du Sol Inhale / Exhale Thelma Plum I'm Sorry, Now Say It Back

Artists with multiple nominations 5 nominations John Farnham Silverchair

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

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