Troye Sivan scooped music of the yr at the 2024 APRA Songs Awards, held Wednesday, May well possibly 1 at ICC Sydney.

The Australian pop artist nabbed the peer-voted category, the prime honor at the APRAs, for “Rush,” co-published with Styalz Fuego, and lifted from Sivan’s third studio album A tiny anything to Give Each and every Other, which bowed at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart in October 2023.

Fuego was on hand to get the ring-formed award, the remaining presented on the evening.

“As a revolutionary when I operate with an artist that I’m now a supporter of, I believe like ‘don’t f— this us.’ It is usually like, I visualize this music could ruin their profession,” he remarked. “I’m so happy that with Troye we did a issue that people completed up loving.”

Sivan has been in glowing selection at awards ceremonies, dominating the 2023 ARIAs with four wins, and landing a Grammy nomination with “Rush” (most helpful pop dance recording). Sivan (2017) and Fuego (2013) are each of these former recipients of the APRA breakthrough songwriter of the yr category.

In the meantime, blues act The Teskey Brothers snagged songwriter of the yr, pursuing the release of their ARIA No. 1 album The Winding Way, such as to a assortment that includes ARIA Awards and a Rolling Stone Australia Award, received ahead of this yr for greatest record. The coveted prize is decided by the APRA board of writer and publisher directors.

Singer and songwriter Dean Lewis doubled up with APRAs for “How Do I Say Goodbye,” a tear-jerker that captures his shock just after studying of his dad’s most cancers evaluation. “Goodbye” gained for most performed Australian do the job and most executed pop do the job, lifting his all-time APRAs tally to six. All by way of his taped acceptance speeches, Lewis gave a shoutout to the “great Mike Taylor,” the former chief of Island Documents Australia who died in January adhering to a fight with most cancers, aged 54. “Goodbye” was the final music they worked on with each other, Lewis discussed.

Other winners at the APRAs incorporated grentperez, the inaugural receiver of the increasing songwriter of the yr award Parkway Produce for the inaugural most executed difficult rock/substantial metallic do the job class ONEFOUR for most carried out hip hop / rap function Sia, landing most carried out Australian operate abroad for the fifth time and Taylor Swift for international function of the yr.

A individual of the highlights of the evening time was the presentation of the Ted Albert Award for Excellent Solutions and solutions to Australian New music to Bart Willoughby, singer, songwriter and drummer with pioneering Indigenous rock band No Set Tackle. Prolonged-time pals Stephen Pigram and Don Walker of Cold Chisel did the honors.

The 2024 edition of the APRAs “was a memorable evening time exactly where we honored a quantity of initially-time winners as nicely as set up national treasures, like the astounding Bart Willoughby,” evaluations APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston.

“In recognizing the unbelievable talent in Australia’s new music landscape, it is vital to acknowledge that as an organisation that champions gender variety by advocacy, funding and imaginative possibilities, there is a great deal extra to do to manage the disparity in the market of male to ladies, non-binary and gender several award winners.” He carries on, “We will have to frequently concern the absence of variety in each and every single aspect of the industry—whether in rooms, executive workplaces, on stages, or across airwaves and streaming platforms—and dedicate to amplifying the entirety of Australia’s musical brilliance.”

Set up in 1982, the Australasian Carrying out Correct Association’s annual songwriters’ ceremony is a single unique of the Australian new music industry’s most treasured gatherings, a worthy counterpart to Britain’s Ivor Novello Awards.

Complete listing of 2024 APRA New music Awards winners:

Peer-Voted APRA Music of the Year
Title:               Rush
Artist:              Troye Sivan
Writers:           Troye Sivan / Styalz Fuego* / Alex Chapman^ / Kevin Hickey^ /
                        Brett McLaughlin~ / Adam Novodor~
Publishers:      Universal/MCA Music Publishing / Universal Tunes Publishing* /
                        Kobalt Music Publishing^ / Sony Tunes Publishing~

Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Providers to Australian Audio
Bart Willoughby

Songwriter of the Year 
The Teskey Brothers
Writers:           Josh Teskey / Sam Teskey
Publishers:      Mushroom Music obo Ivy League Music      

Emerging Songwriter of the Yr
Writer:            grentperez
Publisher:        Mushroom Audio

Most Carried out Australian Work 
Title:               How Do I Say Goodbye
Artist:              Dean Lewis
Writers:           Dean Lewis / Jon Hume*
Publishers:      Kobalt Tunes Publishing / Concord ANZ*

Most Carried out Option Operate
Title:               Daylight
Artist:               Birds of Tokyo
Writers:            Ian Berney / Ian Kenny / Glenn Sarangapany / Adam Spark / Adam Weston
Publisher:        Mushroom New music

Most Executed Blues & Roots Work 
Title:               Dancing in the Darkish
Artist:               Ziggy Alberts
Writer:              Ziggy Alberts
Publisher:        Kobalt Music Publishing

Most Performed State Work 
Title:               Summer Evenings
Artist:               Casey Barnes
Writers:            Casey Barnes / Michael De Lorenzis / Michael Paynter
Publisher:        Mushroom Tunes

Most Performed Dance/Digital Work 
Title: Never Enable You Go
Artist:               Jason Derulo & Shouse
Writers:            Jack Madin* / Edward Help* / Sean Congues / Jason Desrouleaux^
Publishers:      ONELOVE Publishing* / Sentric Audio Publishing / 
                        Universal New music Publishing^

Most Performed Definitely really hard Rock/Significant Metallic Work 
Title:               Darker Having said that
Artist:               Parkway Travel
Writers:            Benjamin Gordon* / Luke Kilpatrick* / Jeffrey Ling* / Winston McCall* /
                        George Hadjichristou
Publisher:        Kobalt Songs Publishing*

Most Performed Hip Hop / Rap Function
Title:               COMMA’S
Artist:               ONEFOUR ft. CG
Writers:            Spencer Magalogo* / Jerome Misa* / Salec Su’a* / Bailey Pickles /
                        Chandler Hammond / Hugo Hui / Caleb Tiedemann
Publisher:        Sony Audio Publishing*

Most Performed Pop Work 
Title: How Do I Say Goodbye
Artist:               Dean Lewis
Writers:            Dean Lewis / Jon Hume*
Publishers:       Kobalt New music Publishing / Concord ANZ*

Most Carried out R&B / Soul Work 
Title:               Cinderella
Artist:               JKING
Writer:             Jordan Samatua          

Most Performed Rock Work 
Title:               Good Time
Artist:               Polish Club
Writers:            David Novak / John-Henry Pajak / Robby De Sa
Publisher:        Sony Audio Publishing

Most Performed Australian Do the job Overseas
Title:               Unstoppable
Artist:               Sia
Author:              Sia Furler / Christopher Braide*
Publishers:       Sony Tunes Publishing / Concord ANZ* 

Licensee of the 12 months
Australian Calisthenic Federation Inc<br />
Most Executed Worldwide Work 
Title:               Anti-Hero
Artist:               Taylor Swift
Writers:            Taylor Swift / Jack Antonoff*
Publishers:       Universal/MCA Music Publishing / Sony Songs Publishing*