She may have missed out on the 2026 Grammys when those nominees were announced, but Taylor Swift won big at the 2025 ARIA Awards tonight (November 19th).
The US pop superstar was named Most Popular International Artist (one of the publicly-voted categories), despite being in a tough category containing Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Calvin Harris, and more.
New Zealand comedian Melanie Bracewell, who was presenting the award, collected on Swift’s behalf, because of course Swift wasn’t present at the ceremony.
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Australia’s biggest night in music opened with a bang courtesy of viral sensation Keli Holiday, capping off his biggest career year yet.
Joined by fellow Aussie artists such as Baker Boy, he performed his breakout hit “Dancing2”, which has taken off in a huge way on TikTok and beyond.
Following his performance, Holiday — better known as Adam Hyde — picked up the Best Video gong for “Dancing2”.
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In other Swift news, she recently shared the new trailer for her upcoming Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era, a six-part series focused on her ‘Eras Tour’.
“Honestly can’t think of a better way to celebrate my (almost) birthday than to relive the Eras Tour with you!” Swift said of the docuseries, which arrives with its first two episodes on December 12th. “This time we’re going backstage.”
“I came up with the idea for the Eras Tour about two years before the tour started,” Swift says in the trailer. “I wanted to overserve the fans in terms of the amount of songs they were going to hear and how far I was going to push myself. My main goal is to give something to the fans that they didn’t expect.”
The preview also features footage of Swift backstage rehearsing with many of the Eras Tour’s surprise guests — Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch, and more — as well as a look into her life with now-fiancé Travis Kelce.
“This show created a bonding experience for like 70,000 people all at once,” Swift says in the trailer. “There’s something very special about that.”
