Kylie Minogue to be awarded the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the 2025 APRA Music Awards
Published: 15 April 2025
Australian musical icon Kylie Minogue will be award the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at this year’s APRA Music Awards on 30 April.
The award, named after one of Australia’s pioneering independent music producers, honours artists for their outstanding lifetime contribution to the Australian music scene, with previous winners including Helen Reddy, The Seekers and Cold Chisel.
No other Australian artist in her generation has achieved such widespread global success as Minogue with her music career beginning almost 40 years ago with the release of her 1987 single ‘Locomotion’. Over the decades she has scored multiple top 10 hits across the globe, including in Australia, the UK and the US, released seventeen studio albums and with over 80 million records sold has become one of the most successful Australian recording artists of all time.
The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music will join a slew of prestigious awards Minogue has won over the years, including two Grammys, four Brit Awards, eighteen ARIA Music Awards, two MTV Music Video Awards, and both The Order of Australia and The Order of the British Empire.
“As one of Australia’s biggest and brightest stars, Kylie was an obvious choice for this award,” Jenny Morris, the chair of APRA says. “Her achievements over the past four decades are almost too many to count and we are absolutely honoured to add the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music to her vast collection of accolades. Kylie’s huge body of work and stellar career have been a guiding light for so many Australian songwriters and artists who have looked up to her as a beacon of Australian music, and we look forward to seeing what the next chapter of musical greatness will bring!”
The 2025 APRA Music Awards will be held on 30 April at the Melbourne Town Hall, hosted by Zan Rowe with guest presenters Hau Lātūkefu and Ngaiire. Performing on the night will be Sarah Blasko, DENNI, TAIJA, Zaya, Lior, and Arnhem Land’s first all-female rock group Ripple Effect Band amongst others.
Tate McRae and co-writers Amy Allen, Jasper Harris and Ryan Tedder have already been announced as the winner of Most Performed International Work for her global hit ‘Greedy’.
The winners of all other nominated categories, plus the International Recognition Award, Most Performed Australian Work Overseas and Songwriter of the Year will be announced on 30 April.
For more information, visit the APRA Music Awards website.
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