title: 2017 in Australian music
text: # 2017 in Australian music
  
  The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2017 in music in Australia.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### May
  
  * 13 May – Australia's representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Isaiah Firebrace, finishes in ninth place with 173 points for the song "Don't Come Easy".
  
  ### July
  
  * 21–23 July – Splendour in the Grass 2017 is held at North Byron Parklands in Yelgun, New South Wales, headlined by The xx, Queens of the Stone Age and LCD Soundsystem.
  
  ## Releases
  
  ### Albums
  
  **February**
  
  | Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 10 | Everyone We Know | Thundamentals | Hip hop |
  
  **April**
  
  | Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 21 | Speeding | Allday | Hip hop |
  | 28 | Off the Grid | Bliss n Eso | Hip hop |
  
  **August**
  
  | Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 18 | Go Farther in Lightness | Gang of Youths | Indie rockAlternative rock |
  | 25 | Belly of the Beast | Citizen Kay | Hip hop |
  
  **November**
  
  | Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 10 | Changa | Pnau | Electronicwonky pop |
  | 10 | Engraved in the Game | Kerser | Hip hop |
  
  **December**
  
  | Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | ClassicILL | Downsyde | Hip hop |
  
  ### Singles
  
  * 10 February – What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out? by Gang of Youths
  * 9 March – Big Night Out by Butterfingers
  * 17 March – In Motion by Allday
  * 23 March – Feel Good by Kwame
  * 23 March – Friends by Kwame
  * 27 March – No Time by B-Nasty
  * 28 March – Moments by Bliss n Eso
  * 14 April – Blue by Bliss n Eso
  * 28 April – Believe by Bliss n Eso
  * 4 May – Here by Briggs
  * 5 May – Hyperreal by Flume
  * 10 May – Cloud 9 by Baker Boy
  * 18 May – Richman by Downsyde
  * 26 May – Let Me Down Easy by Gang of Youths
  * 16 June – Drunk Together by Jai Waetford
  * 22 June – Late Nights by Carmouflage Rose
  * 9 August – The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows by Gang of Youths
  * 17 August – Champagne by Jai Waetford
  * 1 September – A Dark Machine by ShockOne
  * 22 September – Yesterday by 360
  * 6 October – Marryuna by Baker Boy
  * 20 October – Girl with a Suntan by Jai Waetford
  * 27 October – Way Out by 360
  * 27 October – Go Bang by Pnau
  * 10 November – Back in the Game by Downsyde
  * 14 December – We Don't Have To by Jai Waetford
  * 29 November – The Heart Is a Muscle by Gang of Youths
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 2 January – Auriel Andrew, 69, singer
  * 22 January – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 46, musician
  * 13 February – Carol Lloyd, 68, singer, songwriter, composer
  * 19 July – Graham Wood, 45, musician
  * 2 August – Tony Cohen, 60, record producer, sound engineer
  * 16 October – Iain Shedden, 60, drummer
  * 22 October – George Young, 70, musician, songwriter, record producer
  * 18 November – Malcolm Young, 64, musician, guitarist, songwriter, producer
  