ARIA Music Awards of 1996

1996 ARIA Music Awards
Date30 September 1996 (1996-09-30)
VenueSydney Convention & Exhibition Centre,
Sydney, New South Wales
Most awardsYou Am I (6)
Most nominationsYour Am I (9)
Websiteariaawards.com.au
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNetwork Ten
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The 10th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 30 September 1996 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.[1][2] Presenters distributed 28 awards with the big winner for the year was You Am I gaining six awards.[1][3]

In addition to previous categories an Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Silverchair, which acknowledged "[their] conquering world charts with the single 'Tomorrow' and the debut album album frogstomp."[3] A Special Achievement Award was presented to Slim Dusty.[1][3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: Australian Crawl and Horrie Dargie.[1] Australian Crawl's founding guitarist Brad Robinson, was unable to attend; he was hospitalised with lymphoma (diagnosed three years earlier) and died two weeks after the ceremony.[4][5] It was also the final Australian performance by INXS with original frontman Michael Hutchence before his death 14 months later.

  1. ^ a b c d "Winners by Year 1996". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Australia 1996 ARIA Awards". ALLdownunder.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. ^ a b c O'Grady, Anthony. "The 10th Annual ARIA Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2001. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Australian Crawl'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  5. ^ Petkovski, Suzi (December 1996). "Master Blaster". Australian Tennis Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 October 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2008.