The ARIA Music Award for Best Group, 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 given to an Australian group comprising two or more members for an album or single release. The accolade is voted for by a judging academy which comprises 1000 members from different areas of the music industry.
The award for Best Group was first presented to INXS in 1987, for their single "Listen Like Thieves". INXS and Tame Impala are tied for the most wins with three each. Powderfinger have the most nominations with 10, while Hilltop Hoods and Hunters & Collectors are tied for the most nominations without a win with five each. The Cruel Sea became the only group to win in consecutive years with their second win in 1995. Two groups, the Temper Trap and Amyl and the Sniffers, have won both their nominations.
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. All reliable sources used in this article make no mention of nominees from 1989 - 1991. 1987 information is based on an ARIA-supplied video.
Year Winner(s) Album/Single Title 1987(1st) INXS "Listen Like Thieves" Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over" Hunters & Collectors Human Frailty Midnight Oil The Dead Heart Pseudo Echo "Funkytown" 1988(2nd) Crowded House Hunters & Collectors Icehouse INXS Midnight Oil 1989(3rd) INXS "Never Tear Us Apart" The Black Sorrows Hold On To Me Crowded House Temple of Low Men The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane Midnight Oil "Dreamworld" 1990(4th) The Black Sorrows Hold On To Me 1927 "Compulsory Hero" Boom Crash Opera These Here Are Crazy Times Johnny Diesel & the Injectors Johnny Diesel & the Injectors Hunters & Collectors Ghost Nation 1991(5th) Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining Boom Crash Opera Look! Listen!! The Black Sorrows Harley and Rose Hunters & Collectors "Throw Your Arms Around Me" INXS X 1992(6th) INXS Live Baby Live Baby Animals Baby Animals The Black Sorrows "Never Let Me Go" Crowded House Woodface Hunters & Collectors "Where Do You Go?" 1993(7th) Crowded House "Weather with You" Baby Animals "One Word" The Black Sorrows Better Times The Cruel Sea This Is Not the Way Home INXS Welcome to Wherever You Are 1994(8th) The Cruel Sea The Honeymoon Is Over Baby Animals Shaved and Dangerous Crowded House Together Alone INXS Full Moon, Dirty Hearts Midnight Oil Earth and Sun and Moon 1995(9th) The Cruel Sea Three Legged Dog Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Let Love In Crowded House Private Universe Silverchair Frogstomp You Am I Hi Fi Way 1996(10th) You Am I Hourly, Daily The Badloves Holy Roadside Crowded House "Everything Is Good for You" Regurgitator Tu-Plang Silverchair "Blind" 1997(11th) Savage Garden Savage Garden Crowded House "Instinct" Powderfinger Double Allergic Silverchair Freak Show Spiderbait Ivy and the Big Apples 1998(12th) The Whitlams Eternal Nightcap Regurgitator Unit Savage Garden "Universe" The Superjesus Sumo You Am I #4 Record 1999(13th) The Living End The Living End Powderfinger Internationalist Regurgitator "! (The Song Formerly Known As)" Silverchair Neon Ballroom You Am I "Heavy Heart" 2000(14th) Killing Heidi Reflector Powderfinger "Passenger" Savage Garden "Affirmation" Shihad The General Electric Madison Avenue "Don't Call Me Baby" 2001(15th) Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five The Avalanches Since I Left You Killing Heidi "Superman Supergirl" Something for Kate Echolalia You Am I Dress Me Slowly 2002(16th) Silverchair Diorama george Polyserena Grinspoon New Detention Powderfinger "The Metre/Waiting for the Sun" The Vines Highly Evolved 2003(17th) Powderfinger Vulture Street Grinspoon "No Reason" Silverchair "Across the Night" Something for Kate The Official Fiction The Waifs Up All Night 2004(18th) Jet Get Born The Cat Empire The Cat Empire Eskimo Joe A Song Is a City Powderfinger "Sunsets" The Dissociatives The Dissociatives 2005(19th) Eskimo Joe "Older Than You" Evermore Dreams Grinspoon Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills Powderfinger These Days Thirsty Merc "Someday, Someday" 2006(20th) Wolfmother Wolfmother Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine Rogue Traders Here Come the Drums The Living End State of Emergency 2007(21st) Silverchair Young Modern Eskimo Joe "Sarah" Powderfinger Dream Days at the Hotel Existence Sneaky Sound System Sneaky Sound System Wolfmother "Joker & the Thief" 2008(22nd) The Presets Apocalypso Angus & Julia Stone A Book Like This Faker Be the Twilight Silverchair If You Keep Losing Sleep The Living End White Noise 2009(23rd) Empire of the Sun Walking on a Dream AC/DC Black Ice Eskimo Joe Inshalla Hilltop Hoods State of the Art The Drones Havilah 2010(24th) The Temper Trap Conditions Angus & Julia Stone Down the Way Birds of Tokyo Birds of Tokyo Powderfinger Golden Rule Tame Impala Innerspeaker 2011(25th) Boy & Bear Moonfire Birds of Tokyo "Wild at Heart" Eskimo Joe Ghosts of the Past Grinderman Grinderman 2 The Living End The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating 2012(26th) The Temper Trap The Temper Trap Boy & Bear "Big Man" Cold Chisel No Plans Hilltop Hoods Drinking from the Sun The Jezabels Prisoner 2013(27th) Tame Impala Lonerism Birds of Tokyo March Fires Boy & Bear Harlequin Dream Empire of the Sun Ice on the Dune Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away 2014(28th) Sheppard Bombs Away 5 Seconds of Summer 5 Seconds of Summer Hilltop Hoods Walking Under Stars RÜFÜS "Sundream" Violent Soho "Saramona Said" 2015(29th) Tame Impala Currents 5 Seconds of Summer LiveSOS AC/DC Rock or Bust Hermitude Dark Night Sweet Light The Preatures Blue Planet Eyes 2016 Violent Soho Waco King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity RÜFÜS Bloom The Avalanches Wildflower The Veronicas "In My Blood" 2017 Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness A.B. Original Reclaim Australia King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree Peking Duk "Stranger" (featuring Elliphant) 2018 5 Seconds of Summer Youngblood DMA's For Now Peking Duk "Fire" Pnau "Go Bang" Rüfüs Du Sol "No Place" 2019 The Teskey Brothers Run Home Slow 5 Seconds of Summer "Easier" Birds of Tokyo "Good Lord" Hilltop Hoods The Great Expanse Rüfüs Du Sol Solace 2020 Tame Impala The Slow Rush 5 Seconds Of Summer Calm DMA's The Glow Lime Cordiale 14 Steps to a Better You The Teskey Brothers Live at the Forum 2021 Rüfüs Du Sol "Alive" AC/DC Power Up Gang of Youths "The Angel of 8th Ave." Midnight Oil The Makarrata Project The Avalanches We Will Always Love You 2022 Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort to Me Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime King Stingray King Stingray Midnight Oil Resist Rüfüs Du Sol Surrender 2023 DMA's How Many Dreams? Cub Sport Jesus at the Gay Bar King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth... Parkway Drive Darker Still The Teskey Brothers The Winding Way 2024 Royel Otis Pratts & Pain 3% Kill the Dead Hiatus Kaiyote Love Heart Cheat Code Rüfüs Du Sol Music Is Better Speed Only One Mode 2025 Amyl and the Sniffers Cartoon Darkness Folk Bitch Trio Now Would Be a Good Time Hilltop Hoods Fall from the Light Royel Otis Hickey Rüfüs Du Sol Inhale / Exhale
Multiple wins and nominations
The following groups have received two or more Best Group ARIA awards: Wins Artist 3 INXS Tame Impala 2 Amyl and the Sniffers Powderfinger Silverchair Crowded House The Cruel Sea The Temper Trap
The following groups have received two or more Best Group ARIA nominations: Nominations Artist 10 Powderfinger 9 Crowded House 8 Rüfüs Du Sol Silverchair 7 INXS Midnight Oil 6 Eskimo Joe 5 5 Seconds of Summer The Black Sorrows Hilltop Hoods Hunters & Collectors You Am I 4 Birds of Tokyo Martyn P. Casey Nick Cave The Living End Tame Impala 3 AC/DC The Avalanches Baby Animals Boy & Bear The Cruel Sea DMA's Warren Ellis Gang of Youths Grinspoon King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nick Littlemore Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Regurgitator Savage Garden Jim Sclavunos The Teskey Brothers 2 Amyl and the Sniffers Angus & Julia Stone Boom Crash Opera Empire of the Sun Killing Heidi Peking Duk Royel Otis Something for Kate The Temper Trap Violent Soho Wolfmother
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References
External links The ARIA Awards Official website