ARIA Award for Best Rock Album

ARIA Award for Best Rock Album
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
First awarded	1998
Currently held by	Royel Otis, Pratts & Pain (2024)
Website	ariaawards.com.au

The ARIA Music Award for Best Rock Album, 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." To be eligible, the recording must be an album in the contemporary rock, modern rock and active rock formats, and cannot be entered in other genre categories. The accolade is voted for by the ARIA Judging Academy, which consists of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry, and is given to a solo artist or group who is either from Australia or an Australian resident.

The award for Best Rock Album has been won by Powderfinger the most time, with three wins, for: Internationalist (1999), Odyssey Number Five (2000) and Vulture Street.

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 title
1998 (12th)
	The Superjesus	Sumo
	The Angels	Skin & Bone
	Moler	Golden Duck
	Ricaine	The Clarity of Distance
	The Screaming Jets	World Gone Crazy
1999 (13th)
	Powderfinger	Internationalist
	Cold Chisel	The Last Wave of Summer
	Frenzal Rhomb	A Man's Not a Camel
	Henry's Anger	Personality Test
	Silverchair	Neon Ballroom
2000 (14th)
	Killing Heidi	Reflector
	Area-7	Bitter & Twisted
	Deadstar	Somewhere Over the Radio
	Grinspoon	Grinspoon
	Shihad	The General Electric
2001 (15th)
	Powderfinger	Odyssey Number Five
	The Living End	Roll On
	The Mark of Cain	This is This
	Motor Ace	Five Star Laundry
	The Superjesus	Jet Age
2002 (16th)
	Silverchair	Diorama
	Alex Lloyd	Watching Angels Mend
	Grinspoon	New Detention
	Motor Ace	Shoot This
	The Vines	Highly Evolved
2003 (17th)
	Powderfinger	Vulture Street
	Magic Dirt	Tough Love
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Nocturama
	The Sleepy Jackson	Lovers
	Something for Kate	The Official Fiction
2004 (18th)
	Jet	Get Born
	Dallas Crane	Dallas Crane
	Eskimo Joe	A Song Is a City
	The Living End	Modern Artillery
	Spiderbait	Tonight Alright
2005 (19th)
	Grinspoon	Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills
	Evermore	Dreams
	Little Birdy	BigBigLove
	Shihad	Love Is the New Hate
	The Cat Empire	Two Shoes
2006 (20th)
	Wolfmother	Wolfmother
	Augie March	Moo, You Bloody Choir
	Eskimo Joe	Black Fingernails, Red Wine
	The Living End	State of Emergency
	You Am I	Convicts
2007 (21st)
	Silverchair	Young Modern
	Airbourne	Runnin' Wild
	Grinspoon	Alibis & Other Lies
	Jet	Shine On
	Powderfinger	Dream Days at the Hotel Existence
2008 (22nd)
	The Living End	White Noise
	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	Primary Colours
	Faker	Be the Twilight
	Gyroscope	Breed Obsession
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2009 (23rd)
	AC/DC	Black Ice
	The Drones	Havilah
	Eskimo Joe	Inshalla
	Jet	Shaka Rock
	The Temper Trap	Conditions
2010 (24th)
	Birds of Tokyo	Birds of Tokyo
	Cloud Control	Bliss Release
	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	Rush to Relax
	Powderfinger	Golden Rule
	Tame Impala	Innerspeaker
2011 (25th)
	The Living End	The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating
	Children Collide	Theory of Everything
	Eskimo Joe	Ghosts of the Past
	Jebediah	Kosciuszko
	Papa Vs Pretty	United in Isolation
2012 (26th)
	The Temper Trap	The Temper Trap
	Children Collide	Monument
	Cold Chisel	No Plans
	Oh Mercy	Deep Heat
	The Jezabels	Prisoner
2013 (27th)
	Tame Impala	Lonerism
	Birds of Tokyo	March Fires
	Boy & Bear	Harlequin Dream
	The Drones	I See Seaweed
	The Rubens	The Rubens
2014 (28th)
	Dan Sultan	Blackbird
	Angus & Julia Stone	Angus & Julia Stone
	Ball Park Music	Puddinghead
	Jimmy Barnes	30:30 Hindsight
	Kingswood	Microscopic Wars
2015 (29th)
	Tame Impala	Currents
	Courtney Barnett	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
	Dead Letter Circus	Aesthesis
	Gang of Youths	The Positions
	The Preatures	Blue Planet Eyes
2016 (30th)
	Violent Soho	Waco
	Ball Park Music	Every Night the Same Dream
	Boy & Bear	Limit of Love
	Gang of Youths	Let Me Be Clear
	The Living End	Shift
2017 (31st)
	Gang of Youths	Go Farther in Lightness
	Dan Sultan	Killer
	Dune Rats	The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit
	Polish Club	Alright Already
	The Preatures	Girlhood
2018 (32nd)
	Courtney Barnett	Tell Me How You Really Feel
	Camp Cope	How to Socialise & Make Friends
	DMA's	For Now
	Luca Brasi	Stay
	Middle Kids	Lost Friends
2019 (33rd)
	Amyl and the Sniffers	Amyl and the Sniffers
	Holy Holy	My Own Pool of Light
	Jimmy Barnes	My Criminal Record
	Midnight Oil	Armistice Day: Live at the Domain, Sydney
	Skegss	My Own Mess
2020 (34th)
	Tame Impala	The Slow Rush
	Cold Chisel	Blood Moon
	DMA's	The Glow
	Ocean Alley	Lonely Diamond
	Violent Soho	Everything Is A-OK
2021 (35th)
	Middle Kids	Today We're the Greatest
	AC/DC	Power Up
	Ball Park Music	Ball Park Music
	Holy Holy	Hello My Beautiful World
	Midnight Oil	The Makarrata Project
2022 (36th)
	Amyl and the Sniffers	Comfort to Me
	Ball Park Music	Weirder & Weirder
	Gang of Youths	Angel in Realtime
	King Stingray	King Stingray
	Spacey Jane	Here Comes Everybody
2023 (37th)
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
	Bad//Dreems	Hoo Ha!
	DMA's	How Many Dreams?
	G Flip	Drummer
	Pacific Avenue	Flowers
2024 (38th)
	Royel Otis	Pratts & Pain
	Angie McMahon	Light, Dark, Light Again
	Grinspoon	Whatever, Whatever
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Flight b741
	Middle Kids	Faith Crisis Pt 1

External links

• The ARIA Awards Official website