ARIA Award for Best Group

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",^[1] 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."^[2] 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.^[3]

ARIA Award for Best Group
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
First award	1987
Currently held by	Royel Otis, Pratts & Pain (2024)
Website	ariaawards.com.au

The award for Best Group was first presented to INXS in 1987, for their single "Listen Like Thieves".^[4]

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.^[5] 1987 information is based on an ARIA-supplied video.^[4]

  Winner marked in a separate colour

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[nb 1]
	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 (30th)
	Violent Soho	Waco
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Nonagon Infinity
	RÜFÜS	Bloom
	The Avalanches	Wildflower
	The Veronicas	"In My Blood"
2017 (31st)
	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 (32nd)
	5 Seconds of Summer	Youngblood
	DMA's	For Now
	Peking Duk	"Fire"
	Pnau	"Go Bang"
	Rüfüs Du Sol	"No Place"
2019 (33rd)
	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 (34th)
	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 (35th)
	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 (36th)
	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 (37th)
	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 (38th)
	Royel Otis	Pratts & Pain
	3%	Kill the Dead
	Hiatus Kaiyote	Love Heart Cheat Code
	Rüfüs Du Sol	Music Is Better
	Speed	Only One Mode

Multiple wins and nominations

The following groups have received two or more Best Group ARIA awards: Wins Artist 3 INXS Tame Impala 2 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 8 Silverchair Crowded House 7 INXS Midnight Oil Rüfüs Du Sol 6 Eskimo Joe 5 5 Seconds of Summer The Black Sorrows Hunters & Collectors You Am I 4 Birds of Tokyo Hilltop Hoods The Living End Tame Impala 3 Baby Animals Boy & Bear The Cruel Sea DMA's Gang of Youths Grinspoon King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Regurgitator Savage Garden The Teskey Brothers 2 Angus & Julia Stone Boom Crash Opera Empire of the Sun Killing Heidi Peking Duk Something for Kate The Temper Trap Violent Soho Wolfmother

Notes

1. ARIA lists You Am I as the winner of 'Best Group' category but does not display its 'Best Album' category winner here. Other nominees have an album or single displayed.^[6]