ARIA Award for Best New Talent

The ARIA Music Award for Best New Talent was an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. It was presented from 1987 through to 1998.

The award for Best New Talent was first presented in 1987. Crowded House won the award with their single "Don't Dream It's Over". It was retired after the 1998 awards with Natalie Imbruglia winning the final award for her album Left of the Middle.

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.

  Winner marked in a separate colour

Year	Winner(s)	Album/single title
1987 (1st)
	Crowded House	"Don't Dream It's Over"
	Big Pig	"Hungry Town"
	Boom Crash Opera	"Great Wall", "Hands Up in the Air"
	Ups and Downs	"The Living Kind"
	Wa Wa Nee	"Stimulation"
1988 (2nd)
	Weddings Parties Anything	Scorn of the Women
	Dave Dobbyn	—
	James Reyne	—
	Lime Spiders	—
	Painters and Dockers	—
1989 (3rd)
	Johnny Diesel & The Injectors	"Don't Need Love"
	Died Pretty	Lost
	Go 101	"Build It Up"
	Roaring Jack	The Cat Among the Pigeons
	The State	"Real Love"
1990 (4th)
	Gyan	Gyan
	The Hummingbirds	loveBUZZ
	Martha's Vineyard	Martha's Vineyard
	Tall Tales and True	Shiver
	Tania Bowra	Heaven and Earth
1991 (5th)
	Archie Roach	Charcoal Lane
	Doug Anthony Allstars	Icon
	Sea Stories	Miller's Pond
	Mary-Jo Starr	Too Many Movies
	The Screaming Jets	"C'mon"
1992 (6th)
	Underground Lovers	Underground Lovers
	Degenerates	Out Of My Head
	Euphoria	"Love You Right"
	Melissa	"Read My Lips"
	Jo Beth Taylor	"99 Reasons"
1993 (7th)
	Things of Stone and Wood	"Share This Wine"
	Caligula	Caligula
	Girlfriend	Make It Come True
	Rick Price	"Not a Day Goes By"
	Tiddas	Inside My Kitchen
1994 (8th)
	The Badloves	Get On Board
	Margot Smith	"Sleeping With The Lion"
	The Robertson Brothers	"I Know Why"
	Swoop	Thriller
	Vincent Stone	"Sunshine"
1995 (9th)
	Silverchair	Frogstomp
	Magic Dirt	Life Was Better
	Max Sharam	A Million Year Girl
	Merril Bainbridge	"Mouth"
	The Truth	"My Heavy Friend"
1996 (10th)
	Monique Brumby	"Fool for You"
	Fiona Kernaghan	Cypress Grove
	Human Nature	"Got It Goin' On"
	Rail	Bad Hair Life
	Ute	Under The External
1997 (11th)
	The Superjesus	Eight Step Rail
	Fini Scad	"Coppertone" / "Testrider"
	Frank Bennett	Five O'Clock Shadow
	Jebediah	"Jerks of Attention"
	Rani	"Always On My Mind"
1998 (12th)
	Natalie Imbruglia	Left of the Middle
	Bachelor Girl	"Buses and Trains"
	Diana Ah Naid	"I Go Off"
	Groove Terminator	"Losing Ground"
	Marie Wilson	"Next Time"

External links

• Official website