APRA Awards

infobox award
name=APRA Awards


imagesize=75px
presenter=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
year=Silver Scroll - 1965
country=Australia and New Zealand
website=http://www.apra.com.au/awards/default.asp

The APRA Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.

These awards are to honour achievements by songwriters including the APRA Awards, the APRA Classical Music Awards and the Screen Awards, all in Australia. In New Zealand, the annual Silver Scroll is awarded by an anonymous judging panel to the year's best-written song on commercial release. Also awarded are the songs receiving the most airplay in New Zealand and overseas for the year.

APRA Awards (Australia)

The APRA Awards were established in 1982 to honor songwriters and music composers for their efforts. The award categories are:

Song of the Year

Song of the Year is decided by the votes of APRA members. All eligible songs must be written by an APRA member and released in the preceding calendar year for consideration. The "Song of the Year" award is considered one of the most prestigious of the APRA awards.
*In 2000 Powderfinger won with their song "Passenger".
*In 2001 Powderfinger won for their song "My Happiness".
*In 2002 Alex Lloyd won for his song "Amazing".
*In 2003 Kasey Chambers won for her song "Not Pretty Enough". (4)
*In 2004 The John Butler Trio won for their song "Zebra".
*In 2005 Missy Higgins won for her song "Scar".
*In 2006 Ben Lee won for his song "Catch My Disease".
*In 2007 Augie March won for their song "One Crowded Hour".
*In 2008 Daniel Johns from Silverchair won for the song "Straight Lines".

Songwriter of the Year

Songwriter of the Year is voted by APRA's Board of Writer and Publisher Directors rewarding the songwriter who has recorded the most impressive body of work in the previous year.
*In 2000 Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones of Savage Garden were joint winners of this award.
*In 2001 Ella Hooper and Jesse Hooper of Killing Heidi were joint winners of this award.
*In 2002 Kasey Chambers won this award.
*In 2003 Daniel Johns from Silverchair won this award.
*In 2004 Powderfinger won this award.
*In 2005 Jet won this award.
*In 2006 Bernard Fanning won this award.
*In 2007 Andrew Stockdale, Myles Heskett and Chris Ross of the band Wolfmother shared the award.
*In 2008 Daniel Johns from Silverchair won this award.

The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music

The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music' is decided by APRA's Board of Writer and Publisher Directors for a lifetime contribution. The Award is named after Ted Albert whose company Albert Productions put out records by The Easybeats, AC/DC and John Paul Young.
*In 2000 national radio station Triple J won the award.
*In 2001 Charles Fischer won the award.
*In 2002 Barry Chapman won the award.
*In 2003 Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott of AC/DC won the award.
*In 2004 Don Burrows, Australian jazz and swing musician, won the award.
*In 2005 promoter Michael Chugg won the award.
*In 2006 Bill Armstrong won the award.
*In 2007 Michael McMartin won the award.
*In 2008 Roger Davies won the award.

Breakthrough Songwriter Award

Breakthrough Songwriter Award is decided by APRA's Board of Writer and Publisher Directors for an emerging songwriter or groups of writers. The award category was first introduced by APRA in 2002.
*In 2002 Jennifer Waite and Grant Wallis of Aneki won the inaugural award.
*In 2003 Craig Nicholls from The Vines won the award.
*In 2004 Delta Goodrem won the award.
*In 2005 Missy Higgins won the award.
*In 2006 Wolfmother won the award.
*In 2007 Glenn Richards of Augie March won the award.
*In 2008 Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo won this award.

Awards for Most Performed Works

There are a number of awards given for most performed work based on a statistical analysis of APRA's database. These awards include "Most Performed Australian Work of the Year", Most Performed Australian Work Overseas", "Most Performed Foreign Work", "Most Performed Jazz Work", "Most Performed Country Work" and "Most Performed Dance Work".

APRA's Top 30 Australian Songs

As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations in 2001 APRA created a list of the top 30 Australian songs.cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/awards/music/2001_topten.asp |title="The final list: APRA'S Ten best Australian Songs" |last=Culnane |first=Paul |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association |date=2001-05-28 |accessdate=2008-05-20 ] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the ten best Australian songs, the data was compiled and the Top Ten in numerical order, was announced at the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony. At the ceremony You Am I performed the #1 listed song "Friday on My Mind" with Ross Wilson performing the #2 listed song "Eagle Rock". The next 20 songs in the Top 30 had been announced four weeks earlier. [cite web |url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |format=PDF |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |title="The songs that resonate through the years" |publisher=APRA |date=2001-05-02 |accessdate=2007-11-02 ]

APRA - Australian Musical Centre Classical Music Awards

In 2001, APRA joined forces with the Australian Music Centre (AMC) to present awards for Australian classical music. The AMC had been presenting awards for classical music since 1988 although funding cuts meant that no awards were presented between 1993 and 1995. The participation of APRA helped to secure the future of the awards which are the only Australian awards for contemporary Australian classical music. This award has been won by composers including Breton Broadstock, Ross Edwards, Liza Lim, Richard Mills, and Peter Sculthorpe.

creen Music Awards (Australia)

APRA presents award for music used in movies together with the Australian Guild of Screen Composers with the first awards presented in 1992. In the 2004 Awards, Lisa Gerrard won the 2004 International Achievement Award, Elizabeth Drake won the Best Feature Film Score and Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon and Richard Tognetti won the Best Soundtrack Album for ""

APRA Silver Scroll (New Zealand)

Each year all songwriters with a song on general release that year can enter the Silver Scroll. An anonymous judging panel considers a shortlist of songs awards the Scroll purely on the basis of songwriting.

ilver Scroll winners

*1965: Wayne Kent-Healey, "Teardrops"
*1966: Ray Columbus, "I Need You"
*1967: Roger Skinner, "Let's Think of Something"
*1968: David Jordan, "I Shall Take My Leave]
*1969: David Jordan (second award), "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
*1970: Wayne Mason (The Fourmyula), "Nature"
*1971: Corben Simpson, "Have You Heard a Man Cry?"
*1972: Stephen Robinson, "Lady Wakes Up"
*1973: Ray Columbus (second award) and Mike Harvey, "Jangles, Spangles and Banners"
*1974: John Hanlon, "Lovely Lady"
*1975: John Hanlon (second award), "Windsongs"
*1976: Mike Harvey (second award), "All Gone Away"
*1977: Lea Maalfrid, "Lavendar Mountain"
*1978: Steve Allen: "Why Do They?"
*1979: Sharon O'Neill, "Face In a Rainbow"
*1980: Paul Scheuder, "You've Got Me Loving You"
*1981: "No award"
*1982: Stephen Young, "I Can't Sing Very Well"
*1983: Stephen Bell-Booth, "All I Want Is You"
*1984: Hammond Gamble, "Look What Midnight's Done to Me"
*1985: Malcolm Black and Nick Sampson (Netherworld Dancing Toys), "For Today"
*1986: Tony Waine, "Abandoned By Love"
*1987: Dave Dobbyn, "You Oughta Be In Love"
*1988: Shona Laing, "Soviet Snow"
*1989: Stephen Bell-Booth (second award), "Hand It Over"
*1990: Guy Wishart, "Don't Take Me For Granted"
*1991: Rikki Morris, "Heartbroke"
*1992: Shona Laing (second award), "Mercy of Love"
*1993: Dave Dobbyn (second award), "Belle of the Ball"
*1994: Don McGlashan (The Mutton Birds), "Anchor Me"
*1995: Mary Tierney, Paul Casserly, and Anthony Ioasa (Strawpeople), "Sweet Disorder"
*1996: Bic Runga, "Drive"
*1997: Greg Johnson, "Liberty"
*1998: Dave Dobbyn (third award), "Beside You"
*1999: Bill Urale (King Kapisi), "Reverse Resistance"
*2000: Chris Knox: "My Only Friend"
*2001: Neil Finn, "Turn and Run" (with Sheryl Crow)
*2002: Che Ness (a.k.a. Che Fu) and Godfrey de Grut, "Misty Frequencies"
*2003: Donald McNulty, Te Awanui Reeder, David Atai, Junior Rikiau and Feleti Strickson-Pua (Nesian Mystik), "For the People"
*2004: Malo Luafutu (Scribe) and Peter Wadams (P-Money), "Not Many"
*2005: Dan Hume, Peter Hume and Jon Hume (Evermore), "It's Too Late"
*2006: Don McGlashan (second award), "Bathe in the River"
*2007: Brooke Fraser, Albertine
*2008: Jason Kerrison, Bobby Kennedy, Matt Treacy & Clinton Harris (Opshop), "One Day"

Multiple Silver Scroll winners

* Dave Dobbyn (1987, 1993, 1998)
* Stephen Bell-Booth (1983, 1989)
* Ray Columbus (1966, 1973)
* John Hanlon (1974, 1975)
* Mike Harvey (1973, 1976)
* David Jordan (1968, 1969)
* Shona Laing (1988, 1992)
* Don McGlashan (1994, 2006)

Airplay awards for New Zealand songs

As the body responsible for paying royalties, APRA is also names the New Zealand songs most played in New Zealand and around the world each year. While the national award is very highly contested, the international airplay award has been monopolised by Neil Finn since Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" went to #2 in the USA in 1986.

External resources

* [http://www.apra.com.au/awards/music/previous_years.asp APRA Australian Winners History]
* [http://www.apra.co.nz/html/webpage.php?id=5340 Silver Scroll Winners History]

References