ARIA Award for Best World Music Album

CountryAustralia

Presented byAustralian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

First award1995

Currently held byGurrumul – Banbirrngu - The Orchestral Sessions (2025)

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.com.au

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.