| ARIA Award for Best International Artist | |
|---|---|
| 2025 winner Taylor Swift | |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |
| First award | 2010 |
| Currently held by | Taylor Swift - N/A (2025) |
| Most wins | One Direction and Taylor Swift (5 each) |
| Most nominations | Taylor Swift (12) |
| Website | www |
The ARIA Music Award for Best International Artist, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises the public performance of international artists in Australia. It was first handed in the 2010 ceremony under the name Most Popular International Artist.
The nominee pool for Best International Artist will be drawn from the ten highest selling artists, based on aggregated ARIA album and related single sales statistics for the charts published between the eligibility period. [1]
One Direction and Taylor Swift are tied for the most wins with five each, though former One Direction member Harry Styles has also won three times as a solo artist, bringing his total to eight. All of One Direction's wins, which occurred from 2012 to 2016, were consecutive, followed by Styles' first solo win in 2017; Swift also had three consecutive wins from 2023 to 2025. Styles has won all of his nominations both with One Direction and solo. Swift also has the most nominations with 12, while Ed Sheeran has the most nominations without a win with nine.
In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; other nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. [2] [3]
| Awards | Artist |
|---|---|
| 8 | Harry Styles [a] |
| 5 | One Direction |
| Taylor Swift |
| Country | Wins | First win | Latest win | Artist/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2010 | 2022 | Mumford & Sons, One Direction, Harry Styles | |
| 7 | 2011 | 2025 | Pink, Camila Cabello, Taylor Swift | |
| 5 | 2012 | 2016 | One Direction | |
| 1 | 2018 | Camila Cabello | ||
| Country | Nominations | First nomination | Latest nomination | Artist/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 2010 | 2025 | Majority of nominees | |
| 43 | Mumford & Sons, Adele, Jessie J, One Direction, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Florence and the Machine, Birdy, Calvin Harris, James Bay, Mark Ronson, Sam Smith, Harry Styles, The Rolling Stones, George Ezra, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi, 21 Savage, Charli XCX | |||
| 17 | Michael Bublé, Drake, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Shawn Mendes, Tate McRae | |||
| 6 | 2012 | 2016 | One Direction, Hozier | |
| 2 | 2014 | 2017 | Lorde | |
| 2022 | Avicii, ABBA | |||
| 1 | 2011 | Rihanna | ||
| 2018 | Camila Cabello | |||
| 2012 | David Guetta | |||
| 2013 | Of Monsters and Men | |||
| 2018 | Camila Cabello | |||
| 2023 | Nicki Minaj | |||