Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition

Its parent album placed second in the triple j album of the year listeners poll in 2019, was shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Music Prize, and scored the Brisbane-based artist six ARIA Award nominations, winning for best cover art. “Feeling so honored that ‘Better in Blak’ has won the Vanda & Young competition,” she wrote on social media after her name was called out. Plum also gave “heartfelt thanks” to her co-writers Alex Burnett and Oli Horton “for their creativity and to everyone who connected to a song that is deeply personal, written when I was feeling very alone. I don’t feel alone today.” Baker Boy, the one-time young Australian of the year, takes second spot with “Meditjin” and is the first prize recipient to include lyrics in a language other than English. A Yolngu ...