This year's Golden Guitar winners Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning, the Adam Eckersley Band and The McClymonts are all ARPA Music Awards finalists.

Chambers, who picked up two golden gongs last month, is a finalist in Song of the Year with Bernard Fanning for their collaboration, Bittersweet, in Song of the Year and Adam Eckersley Band and The McClymonts are finalists in Country Work of the Year. The McClymonts are finalists twice in this category.

SONG OF THE YEAR

Bittersweet - Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning

Chandelier - Sia and Jesse Shatkin

Geronimo - Sheppard

Kimberley Calling - Dan Sultan

You Ruin Me - The Veronicas

BREAKTHROUGH SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Chet Faker

The Preatures - Isabella Manfredi, Jack Moffitt, Gideon Bensen, Thomas Champion and Luke Davison

Sheppard - Jason Bovino, Amy Sheppard and George Sheppard

M-Phazes

5 Seconds of Summer - Michael Clifford, Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood and Ashton Irwin

Troye Sivan

MOST PLAYED AUSTRALIAN WORK

Chandelier - Sia

Geronimo - Sheppard

Like A Drum - Guy Sebastian

She Looks So Perfect - 5 Seconds of Summer

Swing (Joel Fletcher Remix) - Joel Fletcher featuring Savage

BLUES & ROOTS WORK OF THE YEAR

Dulcify - Halfway

Get Home - Angus & Julia Stone

Heart Beats Slow - Angus & Julia Stone

Livin' In The City - John Butler Trio

Window To The Sky - Kim Churchill

COUNTRY WORK OF THE YEAR

Freedom Rebels - Adam Brand

Give Her The World - Adam Eckersley Band

Going Under (Didn't Have To) - The McClymonts

Here's To You And I - The McClymonts

One Eye For An Eye - Morgan Evans

DANCE WORK OF THE YEAR

Braveheart - Neon Jungle

Drop The Game - Flume & Chet Faker

High - Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar

Swing (Joel Fletcher Remix) - Joel Fletcher featuring Savage

Tear It Down - The Aston Shuffle

POP WORK OF THE YEAR

Borrow My Heart - Taylor Henderson

Chandelier - Sia

Geronimo - Sheppard

Like A Drum - Guy Sebastian

She Looks So Perfect - 5 Seconds of Summer

ROCK WORK OF THE YEAR

Love You Deserve - Stonefield

Suckerpunch - Kingswood

The End - The Jezebels

The Same Man - Dan Sultan

Under Your Skin - Dan Sultan

URBAN WORK OF THE YEAR

Live It Up - 360 featuring Pez

My Life - Bliss n Eso featuring Ceekay Jones

Price of Fame - 360 featuring Gossling

Tightrope - Illy featuring Scarlett Stevens

Won't Let You Down - The Hilltop Hoods featuring Maverick Sabre

INTERNATIONAL WORK OF THE YEAR

Happy - Pharrell Williams

Rather Be - Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne

Rude - Magic!

Stay With Me - Sam Smith

The Monster - Eminem featuring Rihanna

The APRA music Awards will be announced in Sydney at Carriageworks on March 24.