ARIA Award for Best World Music Album
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| ARIA Award for Best World Music Album | |
|---|---|
Posthumous 2025 winner Gurrumul | |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |
| First award | 1995 |
| Currently held by | Gurrumul – Banbirrngu - The Orchestral Sessions (2025) |
| Most wins | Joseph Tawadros (7) |
| Most nominations | Joseph Tawadros (20) |
| Website | ariaawards |
The ARIA Music Award for Best World Music Album, is an award presented within the Fine Arts Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards. It was inaugurated in 1995 as Best Folk/World/Traditional Release.[1] The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[2] and have been given by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987.[3]
Album recordings by a group or solo artist are eligible. The award is handed out for an indigenous, ethnic, folk or cross-cultural recording, and cannot be entered into any other genre category. The final nominees and winner are chosen by a judging school, which comprises between 40 and 100 members of representatives experienced in this genre.[4][5]
Oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros has won the category seven times from twenty nominations, more than any other artist, including consecutive wins from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2020 to 2023. Yolngu singer-songwriter-guitarist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu won all five of his nominations as a solo artist, two of which were posthumous, while gypsy fusion band Monsieur Camembert have won all three of their nominations, including consecutive wins in 2002 and 2003.
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.
Artists with multiple wins
- 7 wins
- 5 wins
- 3 wins
- 2 wins
Artists with multiple nominations
- 20 nominations
- 7 nominations
- 6 nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
- 2 nominations
- Christine Anu
- The Cat Empire
- Coda
- Dead Can Dance
- Inka Marka[f]
- Yungchen Lhamo[i]
- Jane Rutter
- Saltwater Band
- Mista Savona
- James Tawadros
- George Telek
- Wicked Beat Sound System[h]
- Daniel Wilfred
- Xylouris Ensemble
- Zulya