{"id":863537,"date":"2026-08-19T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:34:10","slug":"aria-awards-2026-date-venue-partners-set-40th-anniversary-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863537\/","title":{"rendered":"ARIA Awards 2026: Date, Venue, Partners Set 40th Anniversary Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSYDNEY, Australia \u2014 The 40th\u00a0ARIA Awards will be presented Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion, on Gadigal land \u2014 the sixth consecutive year at the iconic venue.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpotify returns as headline sponsor for the ARIAs, the Australian recording industry\u2019s flagship awards ceremony, while free-to-air network 10 will broadcast the ceremony, and Paramount+ will stream it live.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAlso announced today (Aug. 19) by labels body ARIA, the date for the\u00a02026 ARIA Awards\u00a0nominations. The full shortlist will be unveiled on Thursday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAustralian music is electric, ever-evolving and has never failed to set the cultural conversation ablaze right around the world,\u201d comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. \u201cThe\u00a0ARIA Awards\u00a0have had the best seat in the house for four decades of one incredible show. Whatever gets thrown at Aussie music, our artists find a way to cut through. Now is no exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe likes of multiple ARIA Award winners Amyl and The Sniffers<\/a>, The Kid LAROI, Ninajirachi<\/a>, Dom Dolla<\/a>\u00a0and Troye Sivan \u201care all proof of that,\u201d Herd continues, \u201cand there is a generation behind them who will take Australian music somewhere none of us can picture yet.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what we can\u2019t wait to celebrate at the 40th\u00a0ARIA Awards: the icons who built these four decades, the superstars carrying Australian music today and the artists who will own the next forty years. I promise the team has thrown everything they have at making this milestone unforgettable, see you in November.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDestination NSW supports the ARIAs, while Spotify returns for a second year as presenting partner and will amplify the\u00a0awards\u00a0with its global platform, in-app voting and a global OOH campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast time<\/a>, ARIA announced \u201ca record year of engagement across Australia and the world,\u201d through\u00a0its first-year partnership<\/a>\u00a0with Spotify. Two weeks after the 2025 ARIAs, organizers reported 696,836 public votes were cast across Spotify and the ARIA website, a total more than 200% up from corresponding edition the prior year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat tally was broken down to 614,490 via Spotify and 82,316 via\u00a0aria.com.au<\/a>, for one of the \u201cstrongest\u201d votes in ARIAs history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ARIA\u2019s milestone celebrations got underway in June with a special Hall of Fame<\/a> event at Sydney\u2019s Carriageworks, where six acts who were inducted: the late Gurrumul, Jenny Morris, Kate Ceberano, Spiderbait, The Living End and Vika & Linda.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt last year\u2019s ARIA Awards<\/a>, Amyl and The Sniffers lead the way with four silver spiked trophies, ahead of Ninajirachi (with three) and Dom Dolla (two), while The Kid LAROI performed at Spotify\u2019s invite-only Artist Party, kicking off the\u00a0ARIA Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 The 40th\u00a0ARIA Awards will be presented Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion, on Gadigal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[254618,300239,3042,58695,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-863537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aria","tag-aria-awards","tag-awards","tag-bbnews","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}