THEY have conquered the world stage and now Australia's biggest musical exports, Sia, 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea and Chet Faker have been crowned homegrown heroes at the 2014 ARIA Awards. Australia's elegantly eccentric global star Sia was a no-show for her big wins at the awards held at The Star in Sydney but special guest Katy Perry stepped in for the chronically publicity shy pop princess to accept Best Female artist. One of the most influential hitmakers in the world right now, Sia's latest record 1000 Forms Of Fear also won Album Of The Year and best Pop release. Her viral clip for Chandelier, starring dancer Maddy Ziegler in Sia's signature platinum wig, has had more than 330 million views and was awarded the ARIA for Best Video. Our superstar pop rock band 5SOS kicked off the night opening the show with their performance of She Looks So Perfect. Eardrums were blasted when it was announced that the band of the moment, 5 Seconds of Summer, were the winners of Song Of The Year for their international smash hit She Looks So Perfect. This year's leading nominee Chet Faker, added Best Male Artist and Best Independent Release for his breakthrough No.1 debut album Built On Glass, to his three other artisan ARIA gongs. Triple J's Matt and Alex presented him with his first award and had dressed as Sia and Chet Faker with unforgiving leotards and facial merkin. Accepting his second award he said, "You guys are probably getting sick of me,." In the same week she beat Eminem to take out the American Music Award for best hip hop album, our first international rap superstar won the Breakthrough Artist gong at the ARIAs. Charli XCX, her co-star on the smash hit Fancy, collected the dangerously pointed trophy for Azalea. "I'm gonna drop it off to her and she'll enjoy it," her Fancy co-star Charli XCX said. Another Australian chart-topper to be rewarded for a watershed year was Geronimo hitmakers Sheppard, who were crowned the Best Group and apologised to the 5SOS fans for winning. "I am so sorry girls, I am incredibly sorry," frontman George Sheppard said. But it wasn't just the newcomers who proved popular ARIA winners last night, with perennial favourites winning their respective categories again this year. Sorry...Sheppard frontman George Sheppard apologised to 5SOS fans for taking out Best Group award. The undisputed kings - and now queen - of the kinds, The Wiggles made history to take out the Best Children's Award for the 12th time although the 2014 win is a first for the new line-up which features the first female Wiggle, Emma Watkins. They were earlier sought out for a selfie with fan Harry Styles. Kasey Chambers marked her return to the music scene after taking a couple of months to recover from vocal cord nodules with her seventh Best Country Album win, including two with former husband Shane Nicholson. Star attraction...Katy Perry on stage to present an award. International boy band megastars One Direction, who were greeted with cheers loud enough to rival an aeroplane received the fan-voted Best International Artist for the third year running. They performed their latest single Steal My Girl although they could have been singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the punters in the room would have still screamed throughout the entire song. Pleased the fans...The One Direction boys performing on stage during the ARIA Awards. Other performers included a sizzling Jessica Mauboy, who capped her spectacular year with latest hit single Can I Get A Moment. Got the crowd pumped...DJ Suffa of Hilltop Hoods performs at the ARIA Awards after winning Best Urban release for Walking Under Stars. Best Adult Contemporary Album winners, the legendary Neil Finn and Paul Kelly closed the night with a mash up of their enduring anthems Don't Stand So Close To The Window and Four Seasons In One Day. They scored a 5SOS worthy scream as they started playing Four Seasons, an enduring classic. Other winners include DZ Deathrays who picked up Hard Rock/heavy Metal album and we're very gentlemanly polite in their acceptance speech. Kasey Chambers presented the award for Best Blues and Roots Album to the John Butler Trio for Flesh and Blood, their sixth ARIA. The winner of Best Dance Release were the party lads from Peking Duk for their top 5 hit High. And while there were plenty of winners and grinners on the night Molly Meldrum reminded us all about the important things in life. Originally published as Who scooped up at the 2014 ARIAs