Savage honoured at Australian music awards

Savage has won an Australian music award for a dance reworking of his hit song Swing.

Kiwi hip-hop artist Savage has won a prestigious Australian songwriting award.

The South Auckland rapper was honoured alongside Joel Fletcher for a dance remix of Savage's hit Swing at the APRA songwriting awards in Australia overnight.

He and Fletcher won won the Dance Work of the Year award for the song, which has had more than two million views on YouTube.

The winner of the night's big award, the Songwriter of the Year APRA, was Sia.

It was the third year in a row that the singer-songwriter has won this particular award - the only artist to achieve such a feat.

Sia also won the APRA Song of the Year for her hit Chandelier, co-written by Jesse Shatkin, beating Sheppard (Geronimo), Dan Sultan (Kimberley Calling), The Veronicas and DNA (You Ruined Me) and Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning (Bittersweet).

Apra Music Award winners:

Song of the Year: Chandelier - Sia
Songwriter of the Year: Sia
Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year: 5 Seconds of Summer
Outstanding Services to Australian Music: Fifa Riccobono
Most Played Australian Work: Geronimo - Sheppard
Blues & Roots Work of the Year: Heart Beats Slow - Angus & Julia Stone
Country Work of the Year: Give Her the World
Dance Work of the Year: Swing (Joel Fletcher Remix) - Joel Fletcher feat. Savage
Pop Work of the Year: Geronimo - Sheppard
Rock Work of the Year: Love You Deserve - Stonefield
Urban Work of the Year: Tightrope - Illy feat. Scarlett Stevens
Most Played Australian Work Overseas: Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
International Work of the Year: Happy - Pharrell Williams

- nzherald.co.nz with AAP