ARIA Awards go global featuring Iggy Azalea, 5SOS, Sia and Chet Faker New wave: Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer. The presence of megastars One Direction, Katy Perry and the new wave of global popularity for Australia's pop acts, including 5 Seconds of Summer, means Wednesday's Australia Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards will be the focus of global attention like never before. The red carpet and awards ceremony for Australian music's biggest night, covered by Channel Ten, will be beamed to an audience in the millions via Fox International. ARIA has also been asked to upload to YouTube the performances of megastar boy band One Direction and their heir apparents 5SOS - of whom it was recently revealed1D own a large stake. "This will be our first true international broadcast," says ARIA chief executive Dan Rosen. Millions outside of Australia will be watching. It looks like being the first year more people outside Australia than inside Australia will watch. One Direction will be at Wednesday's ARIA Awards. Last year 480,000 people watched the ARIAs nationally on Go! The biggest-ever audience was when Ten screened it back in 2002. "Australian music has been incredibly successful on the world stage so we want to make sure our ARIA awards reflect that success ... and now we have international artists wanting to be here to be part of that," Rosen says. That success has been led by Iggy Azalea, who penned the hit of the American summer, Fancy, 5SOS (whose eponymous debut album topped the US charts and has sold more than 500,000 copies) and Sia Furler (whose back-to-the-audience television performances of the brilliant single Chandelier have fascinated viewers). All are up for major awards at Wednesday's ARIA Awards. Katy Perry will be at the ARIAs. ARIA announced another international guest presenter on Sunday, British electro pop-punkster Charli XCX (who sang on Fancy). Charli will not perform and nor will the show's big female superstar guest, Perry. If fans are disappointed the American won't belt out one of her hits, such as Roar or Dark Horse, Rosen was unapologetic: "In a year that Australian music has been so strong we want to embrace as many Australian performers as possible on the ARIA stage." The other reason Perry won't sing is it's officially her day off. She is due to play concerts on Monday and Tuesday in Sydney then Thursday and Friday in Brisbane. Melbourne electronic artist Chet Faker has the most nominations, with nine, and is favoured to win the biggest award, Album of the Year for his No.1 record, Built on Glass. The publicly voted Song of the Year category looks the tightest race, with Fancy set to battle it out with Sheppard's Geronimo, Justice Crew's Que Sera, 5SOS's She Looks So Perfect and Sia's Chandelier. Azalea should beat Jessica Mauboy and Furler to the best female artist prize, while Faker should also win best male. The ARIA Awards will be held at The Star in Sydney on Wednesday, November 26. Go to smh.com.au/entertainment/arias for our live blog of the red carpet from 2pm and awards ceremony from 5pm. ARIA Awards essentials Red carpet: 2pm-4pm Awards ceremony 5pm Television coverage: from 7.30pm on Ten Host: Osher Günsberg Performers: One Direction, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Chet Faker, Dan Sultan, Hilltop Hoods, Jessica Mauboy, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Neil Finn with Paul Kelly, Sheppard. Hall of Fame inductee: Molly Meldrum. Song of the Year dark horses Sheppard are the hot tips to be the next Australian act to break overseas. Chet Faker to win album and male artist of the year awards. With two boy bands stalked by hundreds of shrieking fans on the red carpet, don't forget your earplugs.