Keith Urban Returns to Host the ARIAs
Over a decade since Keith Urban last graced the ARIAs stage with his unforgettable performance with John Butler, Urban is returning home to host the 32nd Annual ARIA Awards. Urban’s unprecedented history as a multiple ARIA and Grammy Award-winning artist make him the natural choice as host, a role he is undertaking for the first time.
“I’m really looking forward to coming home and celebrating an incredible year of Australian music,” says Urban. “There’s been so many impressive releases this year, it’s gonna be a tough competition but we get to recognise and honour the best of the best at Aussie music’s night of nights.”
Earlier this year, Urban’s first studio album in nearly two years GRAFFITI U debuted at #2 on the ARIA Album chart. GRAFFITI U includes the current single “My Wave (featuring Shy Carter)”, as well as previous singles “Parallel Line” and “Coming Home”.
GRAFFITI U features over thirty songwriting, producer and featured guest performance credits, including Greg Wells, Dann Huff, Ed Sheeran, Julia Michaels and more. Michaels will also be joining Urban on the Australian leg of his recently announced GRAFFITI U World Tour Australia, kicking off in Newcastle on 23rd January 2019, before travelling around the east coast.
Urban’s last album, the #1 Platinum selling RIPCORD, was the second highest selling album in Australia in 2016 and spent 27 weeks in the Top 10 and 46 weeks in the Top 20 of the ARIA Albums Chart. The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer is no stranger to the ARIA charts with a total of 14 ARIA Platinum-selling singles and albums, earning him a total of five ARIA Awards.
After nine full-length studio albums, Keith Urban has sold millions of albums, songs and tickets worldwide. His success in the US has been stellar, securing 24 career Number Ones in the US, four GRAMMYS®, twelve CMA Awards, eleven ACM Awards, four AMAs, and a People’s Choice Award among his growing list of accolades.
The 2018 ARIA Awards will see the return of Swarovski as the ARIA Official Red Carpet Partner and will proudly be supported by the NSW Government via its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
What: 2018 ARIA Awards
When: 28 November 2018
Info: ariaawards.com.au
