Millions respond to the 2025 ARIA Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is absolutely thrilled to celebrate the impact of the 2025 ARIA Awards in partnership with Spotify two weeks after Australian music’s night of nights.
In a record year of engagement across Australia and the world, nearly 700,000 fan votes were cast across Spotify and the ARIA website, marking one of the strongest votes in the Awards’ history. Across the four publicly voted categories – Song of the Year, Best Australian Live Act presented by Destination NSW, Best Video, and Most Popular International Artist – fans cast 696,836 total votes, including 614,490 via Spotify and 82,316 via aria.com.au. The total vote number exceeded 2024 by more than 200%.
Notably, the three Australian-led categories all drew significant support, with 201,224 votes for Song of the Year, 115,419 for Best Australian Live Act, and 79,668 for Best Video.
This comes off the back of the largest industry vote to date, with round one and two votes hitting 14,998 total: a record combined number and a record for each round. This year also marked the most number of entries ever received at 1,387. Since 2013, industry voting has grown 500%.
Far beyond voting, fan engagement has kept the ARIAs and Aus music in the national conversation long after the week of the Awards, driving:
ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said: “This year’s Awards have shown just how powerfully Australians can rally around our artists when we deliver the right platform to celebrate their stories and profile their success. The stats across ARIA’s own socials are a tiny portion of hundreds of thousands of mentions from artists, creators and fans that have inundated us over the last two weeks. The impact and reach of this year on social has far eclipsed anything we’ve seen before.
“Nearly 700,000 votes, paired with millions of interactions across every major platform, speaks to the strength and reach of Australian music right now. The highest engagement once again landed across the categories celebrating our local acts, which is exactly the kind of momentum that pushes Australian stories further into the global conversation.
“Our partnership with Spotify has been a game-changer for accessibility, but what we’ve seen over the past fortnight is the entire ecosystem moving in unison. It’s an incredible result for Australian music’s night of nights, and an even stronger outcome for Australian artists.”
Photograph; Ninijirachi, Winner of 3 ARIA Awards: Best Solo Artist, Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist presented by Spotify, and Best Independent Release presented by PPCA (Credit: Girl in the Bandana)
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