Sia made history last night, March 24, at the APRA Music Awards. The "Elastic Heart" singer breaks a record by winning Songwriter of the Year for the third straight time. Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy accepted the award on her behalf.
The APRA AMCOS -- Australasian Performing Rights Association -- is the organization that hosts the annual music awards. The organization declared on its site: "We're here for the music. We help music creators get paid for their work and give music users easy ways to legally play and copy what they like. Royalties keep the music coming and ensure the industry's future. And that's what we all want to hear."
APRA AMCOS CEO Brett Cottle released a statement regarding Sia's history-breaking night on the organization's website.
"Sia is the first songwriter in the history of the APRA Music Awards to win the Songwriter of the Year three years in a row," Cottle said. "This is an unprecedented, and very likely, a never-to-be-repeated achievement by one of our most talented songwriters. Sia has been an APRA member since 1996 and was a co-winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year Award in 2002. Since then she has become one of the most successful and acclaimed songwriters of her era. We're incredibly proud of her achievements and honoured to represent her."
Billboard reported that the Australian singer also took home the peer-voted APRA Song of the Year Award for "Chandelier," giving her a total of six APRAs.
In Sia fashion, the singer had Wentz deliver the acceptance speech on her behalf -- sporting a platinum wig and all.
"Thank you, I never knew that I would write such an epic song about chandeliers and I actually think that the song is not about chandliers -- it has a deeper message than that but when I listen to it I just can't imagine that my voice could go higher than it does," Wentz said in his acceptance speech.
He later added, "I feel more powerful with this wig on."
Check out Wentz's acceptance video via YouTube below.
