What Was The Most Played Aussie Song Of 2015?

As we reported earlier, the APRA Awards went down in Sydney last night. It sent several of Australia’s most prominent Aussie musos home with new accolades to add to their pool rooms, including Tame Impala and Courtney Barnett.

Tame Impala managed to pick up Song of The Year for ‘Let It Happen’ off of last year’s Currents, whilst Barnett was awarded the much-coveted title of Australian Songwriter of the Year, ending Sia’s three-year streak.

But one of the most interesting awards went to none other than Peking Duk, who in addition to nabbing Dance Work of the Year for ‘Take Me Over’ also managed to earn the impressive Most Played Australian Work award.

For some context, APRA AMCOS are the body responsible for the non-profit collection and distribution of songwriting royalties to Aussie songwriters. In other words, they keep an eye on every time their members’ work is played.

And we mean every time. Not just the radio play, but every use that generates a royalty, which includes everything from television and film syncs, to live performance, and even getting played in a restaurant both at home and overseas.

So when APRA hand out an award for Most Played Australian Work, that means it’s pretty much the song you heard the most in 2015, no matter whether you were in the club, listening to the radio, watching TV, or at the supermarket.

“HOLY FUCK X2 BLOWN AWAY CAN’t BELIEVE WE WON MOST PLAYED AUSTRALIAN WORK,” Peking Duk wrote on Facebook.”It’s a huge honor to even be put up against Sia and Jarryd James and Vance Joy. Honestly too stoked right now to have won this.”

“Massive thank you to everyone that has love for us cos we love you to the moon and back. Big up Benny and Styalz. LETs celebrate bbs.” It’s not the first accolade to come Peking Duk’s way for their collaboration with SAFIA’s Ben Woolner.

The song previously nabbed the Canberra electronic duo a top five spot in the triple j Hottest 100, one of two top five spots the pair earned that year. The other went to their smash collab with Nicole Millar, ‘High’.