Voting in the four public categories in this year’s ARIA Awards is now open, just weeks out from the official ceremony in Sydney.
2010 marks the first time that ARIA has permitted music fans to vote on the annual awards, and four categories are up for pubic scrutiny. They are… Most Popular Australian Single, Most Popular Australian Album, Most Popular Australian Artist and Most Popular International Artist. The nominees you can choose from are;
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN ALBUM
Vanessa Amorosi – Hazardous
Jimmy Barnes – The Rhythm and the Blues
John Butler Trio – April Uprising
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
Kate Miller-Heidke – Curiouser
Powderfinger – Golden Rule
Guy Sebastian- Like It Like That
Angus & Julia Stone – Down The Way
The Temper Trap – Conditions
Stan Walker – Introducing
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN SINGLE
Vanessa Amorosi – This is Who I am
Vanessa Amorosi – Mr. Mysterious (featuring Seany B)
Gabriella Cilmi – On A Mission
Brian McFadden -Just Say So
Kate Miller-Heidke – The Last Day on Earth
Guy Sebastian – Like It Like That
Guy Sebastian – Art of Love (featuring Jordin Sparks)
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
Stan Walker – Black Box
Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup- We Speak No Americano
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
Airbourne
The Amity Affliction
Vanessa Amorosi
Amy Meredith
Art vs Science
Arj Barker
Jimmy Barnes
Basement Birds
The Bedroom Philosopher
Birds of Tokyo
Bliss N Eso
Bluejuice
Clare Bowditch
Greta Bradman
Catherine Britt
John Butler Trio
The Cat Empire
Little Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill and the Little Hillbillies
Joe Chindamo
Gabriella Cilmi
Justine Clarke
Cloud Control
Crowded House
Burkhard Dallwitz
Dead Letter Circus
Paul Dempsey
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Empire Of The Sun
Heath Franklin
Ash Grunwald
Angie Hart
Adam Harvey
David Hobson
Dick & Christa Hughes
Jimeoin
Dan Kelly
Lee Kernaghan
Perry Keyes
Jay Laga’aia
Geoffrey Lancaster
Jeff Lang
Lowrider
The McClymonts
Brian McFadden
Miami Horror
Midnight Juggernauts
Lisa Miller
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kylie Minogue
Lisa Mitchell
James Morrison & The Idea Of North
M-Phazes
The Necks
Parkway Drive
Pendulum
Philadelphia Grand Jury
Powderfinger
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
Josh Pyke
Li- Wei Qin
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Archie Roach
Xavier Rudd
Guy Sebastian
Sia
Space Invadas
Angus & Julia Stone
Dan Sultan
Tame Impala
Joseph Tawadros
The Temper Trap
Alexander Tsiboulski
Urthboy
Violent Soho
Jason Walker
Stan Walker
Washington
Whitley
The Wiggles
The Wilson Pickers
Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup
MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
Beyoncé
Black Eyed Peas
Susan Boyle
Michael Bublé
Jason Derulo
Eminem
David Guetta
Ke$ha
Lady Gaga
Mumford & Sons
Owl City
Katy Perry
Rod Stewart
Taylor Swift
Train
Usher
And while we don’t tend to play favourites, one of Australia’s hardest working pop musicians was completely overlooked for a peer voted nomination in this year’s ARIAs, so we think it would be shameful for Vanessa Amorosi not to walk away with anything on the night, particularly in light of her No.1 single ‘This Is Who I Am’ and subsequent chart successes with ‘Mr Mysterious’ and her album ‘Hazardous’.
You can cast your vote for this year’s public categories HERE.
The 2010 ARIA Awards are held at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday November 07 and telecast on Network 10.