ARIA Award for Highest-Selling Single

ARIA Award for Highest-Selling Single
CountryAustralia
Presented byAustralian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
First awarded1987
Last awarded2011
Websitewww.ariaawards.com.au

The ARIA Music Award for Highest-Selling Single was an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. It was presented from 1987 through to 2011.[1]

Kylie Minogue holds the record for the most wins, at three (1988, 1989 and 2002).

Winners and nominees

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.

  Winner marked in a separate colour
Year Winner(s) Album title
1987
(1st)
John Farnham "You're the Voice"
Boom Crash Opera "Great Wall"
Do-Re-Mi "Guns and Butter"
Dragon "Dreams of Ordinary Men"
INXS & Jimmy Barnes "Good Times"
Pseudo Echo "Funky Town"
Wa Wa Nee "Stimulation"
1988
(2nd) 		Kylie Minogue "Locomotion"
1989
(3rd)
Kylie Minogue "I Should Be So Lucky"
1927 "If I Could"
Australian Olympians "You're Not Alone"
Crowded House "Better Be Home Soon"
John Farnham "Age of Reason"
Go 101 "Build It Up"
1990
(4th) 		Kate Ceberano "Bedroom Eyes"
1991
(5th) 		Craig McLachlan and Check 1-2 "Mona"
1992
(6th)
Melissa Tkautz "Read My Lips"
Daryl Braithwaite "The Horses"
Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"
The Screaming Jets "Better"
Jenny Morris "Break in the Weather"
1993
(7th)
Wendy Matthews "The Day You Went Away"
Euphoria "One in a Million"
John Paul Young "Love Is in the Air"
Frente! "Accidently Kelly Street"
Girlfriend "Take It from Me"
Kate Ceberano, John Farnham and Jon Stevens "Everything's Alright"
1994
(8th)
Peter Andre "Gimme a Little Sign"
Chocolate Starfish "You're So Vain"
INXS "The Gift"
The Screaming Jets "Shivers"
Things of Stone and Wood "Happy Birthday Helen"
1995
(9th)
Silverchair "Tomorrow"
Merril Bainbridge "Mouth"
Chocolate Starfish "Mountain"
Kulcha "Shaka Jam"
Kylie Minogue "Confide in Me"
1996
(10th)
CDB "Let's Groove"
Crowded House "Everything Is Good for You"
Merril Bainbridge "Under the Water"
Peter Andre "Mysterious Girl"
Regurgitator New (EP)[nb 1]
1997
(11th)
Savage Garden "Truly Madly Deeply"
Human Nature "Don't Say Goodbye"
"Wishes"
Silverchair "Abuse Me"
"Freak"
1998
(12th)
The Living End "Second Solution / Prisoner of Society"
John Farnham and Human Nature "Every Time You Cry"
Natalie Imbruglia "Big Mistake"
Natalie Imbruglia "Torn"
Tina Arena "Burn"
1999
(13th)
Joanne Accom "Jackie"
Bachelor Girl "Buses and Trains"
Human Nature "Last to Know"
Savage Garden "The Animal Song"
Silverchair "Anthem for the Year 2000"
2000
(14th)
Madison Avenue "Don't Call Me Baby"
Bardot "Poison"
Chris Franklin "Bloke"
Sister2Sister "Sister"
Vanessa Amorosi "Absolutely Everybody"
2001
(15th)
Scandal'us "Me, Myself & I"
Human Nature "He Don't Love You"
Nikki Webster "Strawberry Kisses"
Powderfinger "My Happiness"[nb 2]
Kylie Minogue "On A Night Like This"
2002
(16th)
Kylie Minogue "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
Alex Lloyd "Amazing"
Holly Valance "Kiss Kiss"
Kasey Chambers "Not Pretty Enough"
Shakaya "Stop Calling Me"
2003
(17th)
Delta Goodrem "Born to Try"
Amiel Daemion "Lovesong"
The Androids "Do It with Madonna"
Delta Goodrem "Innocent Eyes"
Delta Goodrem "Lost Without You"
2004
(18th)
Guy Sebastian "Angels Brought Me Here"
Delta Goodrem "Predictable"
Paulini "Angel Eyes"
Shannon Noll "What About Me"
Spiderbait "Black Betty"
2005
(19th)
Anthony Callea "The Prayer"
Anthony Callea "Rain" / "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Casey Donovan "Listen With Your Heart"
Delta Goodrem and Brian McFadden "Almost Here"
Missy Higgins "The Special Two"
2006
(20th)
TV Rock featuring Seany B "Flaunt It"
Kate DeAraugo "Maybe Tonight"
Lee Harding "Wasabi"
Shannon Noll "Shine"
Youth Group "Forever Young"
2007
(21st)
Silverchair "Straight Lines"
Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Shannon Noll "Don't Give Up"
Missy Higgins "Steer"
Damien Leith "Night of My Life"
Wolfmother "Joker & the Thief"
2008
(22nd)
Gabriella Cilmi "Sweet About Me"
Delta Goodrem "In This Life"
The Potbelleez "Don't Hold Back"
The Veronicas "Untouched"
The Veronicas "Hook Me Up"
2009
(23rd)
Jessica Mauboy "Running Back"
Empire of the Sun "Walking on a Dream"
Evermore "Hey Boys and Girls"
Jessica Mauboy "Burn"
Wes Carr "You"
2010
(24th)
No award given
2011
(25th)
Guy Sebastian featuring Eve "Who's That Girl"
Birds of Tokyo "Plans"
Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Havana Brown "We Run the Night"
Jessica Mauboy featuring Ludacris "Saturday Night"

Notes

  1. ^ ARIA lists the Regurgitator highest selling single as "New Detention". Powderfinger's highest charting single for 1995/96 was "New. They have not released a single called "New Detention".
  2. ^ ARIA lists the Powderfinger highest selling single as "Odyssey Number Five". Powderfinger's highest charting single for 2000–2001 was "My Happiness",[2] there is no track called "Odyssey Number Five" on their album, Odyssey Number Five.

References

  1. ^ "Highest Selling Single". ARIA. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Discography Powderfinger". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 April 2010.