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.
11th Annual ARIA Awards (1997)
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 - Savage Garden
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

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

1997 ARIA AWARDS - 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

1998 ARIA AWARDS - Australian Radio Awards
Take 40 Australia Award

Monaco World Music Awards 1998
Highest Selling Australian Act

1998 Billboard Music Awards
Adult Contemporary Single of the Year - Truly
Madly Deeply
Hot 100 Airplay of the Year - Truly Madly Deeply

FONO Magazine - Euro Hit 100 Charts
Number One Single - Truly Madly Deeply

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

At the 11th Annual ARIA awards (1997) we witnessed history when Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones took home an amazing 10 awards - a feat never before achieved. Here's the full list:
Best Group
Best Album - "Savage Garden"
Best Single - "Truly Madly Deeply"
Best Debut Album - "Savage Garden"
Song of the Year - "To The Moon & Back""
Best Independent Release - "Savage Garden"
Best Pop Release - "To The Moon & Back"
Highest Selling Single - "Truly Madly Deeply"
Australian Producer of the Year - Charles Fisher
Australian Engineer of the Year - Charles Fisher
At the 12th Annual ARIA Awards (1998), the guys managed to pick up Highest Selling Australian Album and the 1998 Outstanding Achievement Award for sales in excess of 8 million copies.

* Other awards recieved by Savage Garden are:
- Best International Debut Single - I Want You, at the Channel [V] Awards in India
- Band most likely to succeed in 1998 at the Ugly Awards (Austereo Radio Network) Australia.
- World's Best Selling Australian Group at the 1998 World Music Awards.
- Songwriters of the Year and Most Peformed Australia Work Overseas for "I Want You" at the Australasian Performing Rights Association Music Awards on the 11th May 1998

* Their debut album, Savage Garden, has achieved over 2 million sales worldwide - Australia alone has notched up sales awards of over 9 times platinum. The story continues in Canada, (3 times platinum) America (quadruple platinum) and a top 10 hit throughout most of Europe.

* Their debut album which was released on 24th March 1997 debuted at number one on the national ARIA chart (where it spent 19 weeks - 16 of those consecutively). In total, it has spent 36 weeks in the national Top 5. To date the album has sold over 9 times platinum (670,000) in Australia alone.

* Their debut single I Want You was commercially released in Australia in June 1996. It went platinum and became the biggest selling Australian single for 1996, peaking at number 3 on the national AMR charts and earning them an ARIA nomination for Best Debut Single in 1996.

* I Want You debuted at number 31 on the Billboard charts (the highest chart entry ever for a debut single from an Australian artist). It scaled the charts to reach the number 4 position, and also became a Number 1 hit in countries as diverse as Canada, Turkey and Israel.

* Their second release To The Moon & Back quickly became a number one single in Australia and has to date sold in excess of 135,000 copies domestically.

* Their second single release To The Moon & Back was a Top 30 hit in America and is still charting and doing incredibly well all over Europe - going Top 10 and Top 20 in most countries.

* Their third single release, and by far their biggest hit to date, Truly Madly Deeply scaled the Australian charts to reach the number one spot where it stayed for eight weeks (concurrently with their debut album). Truly Madly Deeply has sold in excess of 160,000 copies in Australia.

* Truly Madly Deeply, after having received staggering radio airplay in America, debuted at number 25 on the Billboard charts on 27th November 1997. Soon this hit song had hit number 1 on the Billboard Charts, knocking Elton John's Candle in the Wind off the top spot.

* Break Me Shake Me (released 16th June 1997, their fourth single release in Australia, reached number seven on the ARIA charts. It has sold 48,000 copies to date.

* Universe, released on 20th October 1997, is the current Australian single. It reached number 32 on the ARIA charts and has sold 16,500 copies to date.