Savage Garden Achievements/Awards

Singles
1. I Want You (single) - Gold - 04/09/97
2. Truly Madly Deeply (single) - Gold - 12/22/97
3. I Knew I Loved You (single) - Gold - 1/27/00

Albums
1. Savage Garden (self titled album) - Gold - 06/18/97
2. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 1 times platinum 12/03/97
3. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 2 times platinum 2/18/98
4. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 3 times platinum 03/31/98
5. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 4 times platinum 05/20/98
6. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 5 times platinum 11/04/98
7. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 6 times platinum 02/02/00
8. Savage Garden (self titled album) - 7 times platinum 9/13/00
9. Affirmation (album) - Gold - 12/10/99
10. Affirmation (album) - Platinum - 12/10/99
11. Affirmation (album) - 2 Times Platinum 02/16/00
12. Affirmation (album) - 3 times Platinum 7/18/01

1997

1997 RAWARDS - Australian Radio Awards
Take 40 Australia Award (most popular Australian chart act on commercial radio)

Channel [V] Awards - India
Best International Debut Single - I Want You

11th Annual ARIA Awards
Best Album - Savage Garden
Best Single - 'Truly Madly Deeply'
Best Group - Savage Garden
Best Debut Album - 'Savage Garden'
Best Independent Release - 'Savage Garden'
Best Pop Release - 'To The Moon And Back'
Highest Selling Single - 'Truly Madly Deeply'
Song Of The Year - 'To The Moon And Back'
Producer of the Year - Charles Fisher
Engineer of the Year - Charles Fisher

Guiness Book Of Records- Pop
"The record for the greatest ever number of ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) Awards won by an artist in one year is 10 by Savage Garden in 1997. They were nominated in a record 13 out of 26 categories.

1998

UGLY Awards (Austereo Radio Network) Australia
Band Most Likely to Succeed in 1998

1998 RAWARDS - Australian Radio Awards
Take 40 Australia Award

Monaco World Music Awards 1998
Highest Selling Australian Act

IFPI Platinum Europe Award
In Recognition of European Sales In Excess Of 1,000,000
Savage Garden - Savage Garden - Sony Music Europe - 2 x Platinum

US Billboard Music Awards
Adult Contemporary Single Of The Year - 'Truly Madly Deeply'
Hot 100 Singles Airplay Of The Year - 'Truly Madly Deeply
"Truly Madly Deeply" reaches #1 on the US Billboard Chart
"Truly Madly Deeply" becomes the only one-sided single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart to spend a full year in the Top 30

"Truly Madly Deeply" is certified as the most played song on American radio for 1998

FONO Magazine Awards (BPI) - to commemorate "Truly Madly Deeply" hitting the #1 spot in the Euro Hit 100 Charts, which makes the song a #1 single throughout Europe

12th Annual ARIA Awards (1998)
Highest Selling Album - Savage Garden
Outstanding Achievement Award

APRA Awards (Australian Performing Rights Association):
Songwriters of the Year

Channel [V] Award, India

1999

13th Annual ARIA Awards
Best Pop Release - "The Animal Song"
Affirmation is certified as the 4th best selling album of the year (they acheived that even though was only out for eight weeks at the cut off date of the awards.

2000

MO Awards
Australian Performer Of The Year
Australian Show Business Ambassador Of The Year

IFPI Platinum Europe Award
In Recognition of European Sales In Excess Of 1,000,000
Savage Garden - Affirmation - Sony Music Europe - 1 x Platinum

APRA Awards (Australian Performing Rights Association):
Songwriters Of The Year
Most Performed Australian Work (local) - "The Animal Song"
Most Performed Australian Work (overseas) - "Truly Madly Deeply"

2000 World Music Award for the "World's Best Selling Australian Group"

"I Knew I Loved You" reaches #1 on the US Billboard Chart - making Savage Garden only the second Australian-based band to have two #1 singles in the USA

"Truly Madly Deeply" breaks the record on the Monitor/Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay Chart, for staying in the chart for 106 weeks - longer than any single by any artist or group in the history of the chart. Truly went on to stay on the chart until it reached 123 total weeks on the chart -- a run that ended in May 2000.

Billboard Awards 2000
Best AC Video - "I Knew I Loved You"
#1 AC Song of the year - "I Knew I Loved You"
#1 AC Artist of the year - Savage Garden

The most played artist on Australian radio in 2000

2001

2001 World Music Award for the "World's Best Selling Australian Group"

2001 APRA Awards (Australian Performing Rights Association):
Most Performed Australian Work Overseas - "I Knew I Loved You"

The 18th Annual ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Pop Music Awards: Song Of the Year! (The Most played song on American Radio in 2000) - "I Knew I Loved You" "Crash and Burn" was also listed as one of the most played songs.

2002

February 23, 2002, "I Knew I Loved You" breaks "Truly Madly Deeply"'s record on the Monitor/Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay Chart, for staying in the chart for 124 weeks - longer than any single by any artist or group in the history of the chart. Unfortunately IKILY dropped off the chart the following week. "Loved" spent 17 weeks at No 1, starting with the Dec. 25, 1999, issue.

US Airplay Monitor - AC Most Played Songs of 2001: IKILY was # 9 with 43098 detections for the year.

2003

2003 APRA Awards (Australian Performing Rights Association):
Most Performed Australian Work Overseas - "I Knew I Loved You"

Disclaimer: None of the photographs of Darren Hayes or Daniel Jones or the music group Savage Garden on this site belong to this site or site owner and are here for entertainment and informational purposes ONLY. NO claim has been made regarding these photos and no profit is being made from said photos being posted on this web site.
Copyright © 1999-2001 Cindy Greenleaf. All rights reserved.
Only I, as the author and creator of this work, am entitled to reproduce or distribute this material. Nobody may access my web site and copy my layout, text or graphics without my prior written permission, and only in the manner that I approve.