This week in the music industry, records were broken at both the 2016 NT Song of the Year Awards and Perth’s 2016 Fringe World Festival.
Perth’s Fringe World Smashes Records in 2016
Perth’s Fringe World has become one of the fastest growing events of its kind and 2016’s event has proven it’s development and progression in spades. The annual review, recently released, has analysed and collated the statistics of this year’s Fringe World, now the largest annual event in Western Australia.
Since its inception in 2011, the Festival has shown to have doubled in size every year since and has led to a stack of new business opportunities for artists. In 2016, Fringe World had stimulated more than $8.3 million in gross box office payments to 365 different performance companies, compared to the $3.3 million awarded to 297 projects by the Department of Culture and the Arts through grants and programs.
To check out the full review of 2016’s Fringe World, visit the link, HERE.
Alice Springs artist Dave Crowe aka Resin Moon takes the Overall NT Song of the Year award
Taking things north, the Northern Territory music industry celebrating songwriters across the region with the 2016 NT Song of the Year taking place up in Darwin. The competition smashed its own record, with 450 songs entered, the largest number of original music submissions ever in the event’s history. Over 1300 people voted in the People’s Choice category, which was won by Katherine group KTown and their song, “Shadows”.
The overall winner of the NT Song of the Year was Alice Springs songwriter Dave Crowe who, as Resin Moon, took away the award with his single “Salt”. It was the second win for Resin Moon on the night, also winning in the Electronic/Dance category. For Dave Crowe, it was his second time winning the major award, having won previously under his own name.
Check out the full list of winners below!
OVERALL NT SONG OF THE YEAR
“Salt”
Dave Crowe aka Resin Moon
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
“Shadows”
Michael Cameron, Paddy Kossack, Devon Lines, Marcus Hamilton, Kamahi King & Shaelee aka KTown
with help from Indigenous Hip Hop Projects
ROCK SONG OF THE YEAR
“Murray Island”
Kasley Daniels, Ambrose Daniels, Burt Rami, Winston Joshua, Ben Mangi & Dylan Daniels aka Lonely Boys
POP SONG OF THE YEAR
“Mulunda (Kingfisher)”
Stanley Gawurra Gaykamangu aka Gawurra
FOLK SONG OF THE YEAR
“Everything Was At Peace”
Eleanor Dixon & Beatrice Lewis
URBAN/HIP HOP SONG OF THE YEAR
“Ruler”
Huu Loc Nguyen aka Col Infinity
BLUES & ROOTS SONG OF THE YEAR
“Give Thanks”
Colin Lillie
COUNTRY SONG OF THE YEAR
“Gurtha (The Fire)”
Dhapanbal Yunupingu ft. Shellie Morris
HEAVY SONG OF THE YEAR
“Bond”
Tom Devine-Harrison, Luke Dorward, Elliot Williams, Darcy Grant & Connor Askham aka Tapestry
ELECTRONIC/DANCE SONG OF THE YEAR
“Salt”
Dave Crowe aka Resin Moon
TOURISMNT TERRITORY SONG OF THE YEAR
“Next Time”
Joshua Tarca aka Ben Evolent
YOUTH SONG OF THE YEAR
“Kulimindini is My Home”
Alex Butler, Justin Rankine aka E Town Boyz & Eleanor Dixon
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Denise Officer & Bill Searle
The Roundup
This week, Spotify reported that due to the successful launch of the Pokémon GO, global streams of the Pokémon theme song “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” have spiked by a whopping 362% within the last week. In addition, there are currently 197,000 user-generated Pokémon themed Spotify playlists, with 53,000 of them being titled “Pikachu”.
L-Fresh the Lion announced a national tour for his new album Become, which was released in May this year. Tickets are available HERE.
Melbourne duo ALTA have signed on to Melbourne record label Soothsayer and released a new single “Plans”.
AIR 100% Independent Singles Chart
- Flume feat. Tove Lo – Say It
- Sia – Cheap Thrills
- Flume feat. Kai – Never Be Like You
- Sia – Alive
- Hayden James – Just a Lover
- Sia – Chandelier
- Vance Joy – Riptide
- Vance Joy – Fire and the Flood
- Sia – Elastic Heart
- Client Liaison – World Of Our Love
AIR 100% Independent Albums Chart
- Sia – This Is Acting
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
- Be’Lakor – Vessels
- Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear
- The Cat Empire – Rising With The Sun
- Russell Morris – Red Dirt Red Heart
- Camp Cope – Camp Cope
- Luca Brasi – If This Is All We’re Going To Be
- Seth Sentry – Strange New Past
- Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
ARIA Singles Chart
- The Veronicas – In My Blood
- Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla – One Dance
- Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling!
- Calvin Harris & Rihanna – This Is What You Came For
- Drake feat. Rihanna – Too Good
- The Chainsmokers feat. Daya – Don’t Let Me Down
- Meghan Trainor – Me Too
- Shawn Mendes – Treat You Better
- Imany – Don’t Be So Shy
- Desiigner – Panda
ARIA Albums Chart
- Delta Goodrem – Wings Of The Wild
- Blink-182 – California
- In Stereo – The Speed Of Sound
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
- Adele – 25
- Beyonce – Lemonade
- Keith Urban – Ripcord
- Christine and the Queens – Christine And The Queens
- Meghan Trainor – Thank You
- Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
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