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1998 ARIA Music Awards

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1998 ARIA Music Awards
Date20 October 1998 (1998-10-20)
VenueSydney Convention & Exhibition Centre,
Sydney, New South Wales
Hosted byPaul McDermott
Most awardsNatalie Imbruglia (6)
Most nominationsNatalie Imbruglia (9)
Websiteariaawards.com.au
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNetwork Ten
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The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.[1][2] Presenters, including Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott Despoja and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, distributed 29 awards with the big winner Natalie Imbruglia receiving six trophies.[1][3]

In addition to previous categories, a new category Best Rock Album, was presented to the Superjesus for Sumo. An Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Savage Garden for "world sales of 8 million and counting."[1][3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: the Angels and the Masters Apprentices.[1]

Ceremony details

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The ceremony was hosted by comedian and TV presenter Paul McDermott with a capacity crowd of 1900 attending.[3] Presenters (see below for full list) distributed 29 trophies.[3] Best Group winners the Whitlams received their award from the group's namesake Gough Whitlam.[3] The former Prime Minister announced "It's my family."[4] Once on stage the members knelt at his feet.[4] Upon accepting Savage Garden's award for Outstanding Achievement – selling more than eight million copies world-wide – band member Darren Hayes reflected, "My nephew told me not to come home without the Wiggles' autographs."[3]

Presenters and performers

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The ARIA Awards ceremony was hosted by Australian comedian and TV presenter Paul McDermott.[3] Presenters and performers were:

Presenter(s) Performer(s) Ref.
Kylie Minogue Regurgitator [3]
Dylan Lewis
Grinspoon
Robyn Loau Natalie Imbruglia
"Ugly" Phil O'Neil
B*Witched
Colin Buchanan the Living End
Baz Luhrmann
Glenn A. Baker
Alana De Roma Bachelor Girl
Penne Dennison
Martin Plaza
Flacco John Williamson, Warren H Williams
the Sandman
Christopher Lawrence
Natasha Stott Despoja Jebediah
Angry Anderson
Monique Brumby
Leah McLeod Marie Wilson
Belinda Emmett
Paul Kelly
Marcia Hines Human Nature
Julian Lennon
Alex Dimitriades
Alchemy Hosts The Mavis's
Savage Garden
Jabba
Mary Datoc The Whitlams
Gough Whitlam

Awards

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Final nominees for awards are shown in plain, with winners in bold.

ARIA Awards

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Fine Arts Awards

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Artisan Awards

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Outstanding Achievement Award

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ARIA Hall of Fame inductees

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The Hall of Fame inductees were:

Notes

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  1. ^ ARIA lists this entry as "The Boys for Necks - The".[1]
  2. ^ ARIA lists Dave Dobson as one of three artists for "Now Until the Break of Day".[1] Opera tenor, David Hobson is described as a 1998 ARIA Award winner.[5]
  3. ^ The Shits were a duo renamed as Happyland consisting of (then) domestic partners Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator and Janet English of Spiderbait.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1998: 12th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Australia 1998 ARIA Awards". ALLdownunder.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h O'Grady, Anthony. "The 11th Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2001. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  4. ^ a b Jenkins, Jeff; Meldrum, Molly (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1.
  5. ^ "David Hobson – Opera Singer". Professional singer biography. Emily Tapp Melanoma Foundation Inc. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Happyland > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
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