The J Award of 2012 is the eighth annual J Awards, established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. The announcement comes at the culmination of Ausmusic Month (November). For the fifth year, three awards were presented; Australian Album of the Year, Australian Music Video of the Year and Unearthed Artist of the Year. Winners were announced on 23 November 2012.
Who's eligible? Any Australian album released independently or through a record company, or sent to Triple J in consideration for airplay, is eligible for the J Award. The 2012 nominations for Australian Album of the Year and Australian Music Video of the Year were selected from releases received by Triple J between November 2011 and October 2012. For Unearthed Artist of the Year it was open to any artist from the Unearthed (talent contest), who has had a ground breaking and impactful 12 months from November 2011 and October 2012.
Awards Australian Album of the Year Artist Album Title Result Tame Impala Lonerism Alpine A Is for Alpine Hermitude HyperParadise Ball Park Music Museum The Rubens The Rubens Bertie Blackman Pope Innocent X Regular John Strange Flowers Oh Mercy Deep Heat Urthboy Smokey's Haunt The Presets Pacifica Sarah Blasko I Awake Parkway Drive Atlas
This was the second time Tame Impala have won this award; the first coming at the J Awards of 2010 with Innerspeaker.
Australian Video of the Year Director Artist and Song Result Kris Moyes Kirin J. Callinan - "Way II War" Luci Schroder Alpine - "Hands" Darcy Prendergast Gotye - "Easy Way Out" Dimitri Basil Flight Facilities - "Foreign Language" Quan Yeomans Bertie Blackman - "Boy" Selina Miles Hilltop Hoods - "Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom"
Unearthed Artist of the Year Artist Result The Rubens Flume Chance Waters Kingswood Thelma Plum
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