We love what happens when voting on the ARIA Awards opens - the Australian Music Industry opens it's big ol' wallet to fill the pages of industry bible The Music Network with advertising in the hope of swaying voters towards their big-name Aussie artists.In this week's issue of The Music Network (Issue #754), EMI has inserted a full-colour form-guide, spruiking virtually every artist on their local roster from Tina Arena to You Am I.
Warner Music has taken out a series of full-colour ads espousing the achievements of Eskimo Joe, Lisa Mitchell, Evermore and the Sundance Kids.
Roadshow has a full-page ad for Hamish & Andy, The Butterfly Effect and Axle Whitehead.
Sony's splashed their cash on advertisements for (among others) Jessica Mauboy, Kate Miller-Heidke, Guy Sebastian, Wes Carr, Cassie Davis, Pete Murray, Human Nature, Mark Vincent, Nat Bassingthwaighte and Katie Noonan.
Universal's asking for votes for Short Stack and Daniel Merriweather.
And there are even spreads for Bertie Blackman, The Temper Trap and Dew Process stars Sarah Blasko, The Grates, Yves Klein Blue and Bluejuice.
Let the voting begin!
The 2009 ARIA Awards will be handed out at the Acer Arena ceremony on November 26.
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3 comments:
Hi AuspOp. Do you happen to know the release dates the cds have to fall into to be eligibile for this year's Awards. Is it the same as last year, or seeing both the voting and the Awards themselves are a month later this year have the elligibity dates been changed as well? Last year recordings had to be released between Saturday 4 August 2007 to Friday 25 July 2008 except for sales related nominations to be elligible, and the voting was held early in August.
Not quite sure actually, not.
BUT, it seems that albums that have been released in August (like Cassie Davis, Jet, Short Stack and Paul Dempsey) are eligible.
We therefore assume it's September 2008 - August 2009.
Thanks AuspOp,
I thought that might be the case, but I guess they would have to include the releases that fell after the July 25 cut of date last year too, rather than from September 2008. Otherwise the poor artists who released in that 5 week window would miss out on eligibility. So maybe a 13 month period for this Aria year instead of the usual 12 months. July 26, 2008 to the end of August 2009. If the ARIA Awards remain in November permanently it would only make for a longer period of release date eligibility for one year.
When the ARIA Award 2009 site finally gets finished I guess we will know for sure. I keep looking and it says it is coming soon. It is usually up and running before they announce the start of voting.
Thanks again.
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