Baker Boy Cleans Up At The 2022 ARIA Awards: Full Winners List

Tyler Jenke

November 24, 2022, 4:35 PM·6 min read

Baker Boy Cleans Up At The 2022 ARIA Awards: Full Winners List

Baker Boy was the big winner at the 2022 ARIA Awards, taking home five trophies including Album of the Year for his debut album Gela. The Arnhem Land musician also won Best Solo Artist, Best Hip Hop/Rap Release, Best Mixed Album and Best Cover Art.

Amyl And The Sniffers took home two awards for their latest album Comfort to Me, beating the likes of Midnight Oil and Gang Of Youths in the Best Group category and triumphing over Spacey Jane, Ball Park Music and more to win Best Rock Album. The quintuply nominated King Stingray won the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist Award and RÜFÜS DU SOL took home Best Produced Album; their only win out of eight nominations.

Baker Boy – ‘Meditijin’ (Live At The 2022 ARIA Awards)

In the genre awards, Casey Barnes won Best Country Album, William Crighton won Best Blues & Roots Album and The Wiggles took out Best Children’s Album. Julia Jacklin’s Pre Pleasure was named Best Adult Contemporary Album, Luude’s rework of ‘Down Under’ the Best Dance/Electronic Release, and Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album went to The Chats’ Get Fucked.

For the second year in a row, the ARIA Awards ceremony did not feature Hall Of Fame inductees, instead staging tributes for some of the Australian music personalities who passed away in the course of the last 12 months.

Natalie Imbruglia, Kye, Peking Duk, and Tones And I performed a medley of hits in tribute to Olivia Newton-John, while Budjerah, Jessica Mauboy, and Thelma Plum honoured the late Archie Roach through ‘One Song’. The Seekers’ Judith Durham was honoured by way of renditions of ‘I’ll Never Find Another You’ and ‘The Carnival Is Over’ by Casey Donovan and Dami Im.

2022 ARIA Award Winners

Album of the Year

Gela — Baker Boy
Comfort To Me — Amyl And The Sniffers
Angel In Realtime. — Gang Of Youths
King Stingray — King Stingray
Surrender — RÜFÜS DU SOL

Song of the Year

Cloudy Day — Tones And I
I Guess I’m In Love — Clinton Kane
Hurtless — Dean Lewis
Say Nothing (ft MAY-A) — Flume
Glimpse of Us — Joji
Dreams — Jolyon Petch (ft Reigan)
Down Under — Luude (ft Colin Hay)
On My Knees — RÜFÜS DU SOL
Thousand Miles — The Kid LAROI
Clarity — Vance Joy

Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist

King Stingray
Beddy Rays
Bella Taylor Smith
Harvey Sutherland
Luude

Best Solo Artist

Baker Boy
Budjerah
Courtney Barnett
Daniel Johns
Flume
Julia Jacklin
Ruel
The Kid LAROI
Thelma Plum
Vance Joy

Best Group

Amyl And The Sniffers
Gang Of Youths
King Stingray
Midnight Oil
RÜFÜS DU SOL

Best Australian Live Act

The Wiggles
Amy Shark
Amyl And The Sniffers
Baker Boy
Budjerah
Gang Of Youths
Genesis Owusu
Midnight Oil
The Kid LAROI
Thelma Plum

ARIA Music Teacher Award

Matt Orchard — Apollo Bay P-12 College, Gadubanud Territory, VIC
David Collins-White — Haberfield Public School, Eora Nation, NSW
Jane Nicholas — Willandra Primary School, Noongar Land, WA
Kath Dunn — Wollondilly Public School, Gundungurra Land, NSW

Best Independent Release

One Song — Archie Roach
Weirder & Weirder — Ball Park Music
Things Take Time, Take Time — Courtney Barnett
GTFO — Genesis Owusu
PRE PLEASURE — Julia Jacklin

Best Soul/R&B Release

Conversations — Budjerah
Under These Streets — Emma Donovan & The Putbacks
SHINE — KIAN
City Of Angels — Vanessa Amorosi

Best Hip Hop/Rap Release

Gela — Baker Boy
Blak Matriarchy — Barkaa
Family Ties — Chillinit
MBAPPÉ (ft KAHUKX) — Day1
Fivio Foreign & The Kid LAROI – Tokyo to Paris — The Kid LAROI

Best Pop Release

Thousand Miles — The Kid LAROI
Say Nothing (ft MAY-A) — Flume
On My Knees — RÜFÜS DU SOL
Meanjin — Thelma Plum
Clarity — Vance Joy

Best Dance/Electronic Release

Down Under (ft Colin Hay) — Luude
Palaces — Flume
Tilt — Confidence Man
Boy — Harvey Sutherland
Surrender — RÜFÜS DU SOL

Best Cover Art

Gela – Baker Boy — Adnate
How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater – Alex the Astronaut — Giulia Giannini McGauran
Palaces – Flume — Jonathan Zawada
King Stingray – King Stingray — Kayla Flett, Gabi Coulthurst & Dimathaya Burarrwanga
A Colour Undone – Tasman Keith — Seshanka Samarajiwa, Zain Ayub & Tasman Keith

Best Children’s Album

ReWiggled — The Wiggles
Benny and Friends — Benny Time
How to be Creative — Teeny Tiny Stevies
Let’s Go! — The Beanies
The Princess And The Piano — Van-Anh Nguyen

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Pre Pleasure — Julia Jacklin
How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater — Alex the Astronaut
Total Control — Missy Higgins
In Our Own Sweet Time — Vance Joy
The Wait — Vika & Linda

Best Country Album

Light It Up — Casey Barnes
All Or Nothing — Adam Brand
Living for the Highlights — Amber Lawrence
Strength of a Queen — Andy Golledge
In Colour — Georgia State Line

Best Blues & Roots Album

Water and Dust — William Crighton
Undone — Charlie Collins
Hard Up — The Bamboos
Live At Hamer Hall — The Teskey Brothers with Orchestra Victoria
Thornbird — Thornbird

Best Rock Album

Comfort To Me — Amyl And The Sniffers
Weirder & Weirder — Ball Park Music
Angel In Realtime. — Gang Of Youths
King Stingray — King Stingray
Here Comes Everybody — Spacey Jane

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album

Get Fucked — The Chats
Real Rare Whale — Dune Rats
Obsidian — Northlane
Old Gods — Shihad
Heroine — Thornhill

Best Classical Album

WINNER: The Enchanted Loom: Orchestral works by Carl Vine — Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis
Ross Edwards: Frog and Star Cycle/Symphonies 2 & 3 — Amy Dickson, Colin Currie, Lothar Koenigs, Yvonne Kenny, David Zinman, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Works, Vol. 2 — Lachlan Skipworth
All of Us — Luke Howard
Duet — Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Guests

Best Jazz Album

Live From South Channel Island — Mildlife
Precious Energy — Barney McAll
Another Dance — Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson & Jonathan Zwartz
Oaatchapai — Sam Anning
Springtime — Springtime

Best World Music Album

History Has A Heartbeat — Joseph Tawadros with William Barton
Hand to Earth — Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean
Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 — Mista Savona
Sa — Parvyn
Heartland — William Barton & Véronique Serret

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Australian Chamber Orchestra & Richard Tognetti
No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score) — Brett Aplin
Green Is The New Black — In Hearts Wake
Akoni (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Maria Alfonsine with Itunu Pepper
A Fire Inside (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Matteo Zingales

Best Video

Every Side Of You — Vance Joy
Apple Crumble — Lime Cordiale
Blak Matriarchy — Barkaa
Down Under (ft Colin Hay) — Luude
GTFO — Genesis Owusu
Hertz — Amyl and The Sniffers
I Don’t Wanna Leave — RÜFÜS DU SOL
Lydia Wears A Cross — Julia Jacklin
Say Nothing (ft MAY-A) — Flume
Wish You Well (ft Bernard Fanning) — Baker Boy

Mix Engineer – Best Mixed Album

Gela – Baker Boy — Pip Norman, Andrei Eremin, Dave Hammer & Michael O’Connell
Surrender – RÜFÜS DU SOL — Cassian
Conversations – Budjerah — Dann Hume & Eric J Dubowsky
Palaces – Flume — Eric J Dubowsky
Weirder & Weirder – Ball Park Music — Paul McKercher

Producer – Best Produced Album

Surrender – RÜFÜS DU SOL — RÜFÜS DU SOL
Comfort To Me – Amyl And The Sniffers — Amyl and the Sniffers & Dan Luscombe
Gela – Baker Boy — Pip Norman, Rob Amoruso, Morgan Jones, Carl Dimataga, Willie Tafa, Jerome Farah & Michael O’Connell
Things Take Time, Take Time – Courtney Barnett — Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgawa
Palaces – Flume — Flume