The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Cristiana Linthwaite-Gibbins

Album Of The Year

1. Alex Lahey — I Love You Like A Brother
2. Seraphic — Journey To Illumination
3. Vera Blue — Perennial
4. Gang Of Youths — Go Farther In Lightness
5. The Stranger — The Stranger

Song Of The Year

1. Alex Lahey — Every Day's The Weekend
2. Seraphic — The Reckoning
3. Tonight Alive — Temple
4. Gang Of Youths — Atlas Drowned
5. Amy Shark — Blood Brothers

Artist Of The Year

1. Alex Lahey
2. Amy Shark
3. Vera Blue
4. AB Original
5. Gang Of Youths

International Performance Of The Year

1. Adele
2. Against The Current
3. A Day To Remember
4. All Time Low
5. Guns N' Roses

Australian Performance Of The Year

1. Alex Lahey
2. Amy Shark
3. Tonight Alive
4. The Amity Affliction
5. Seraphic

Top TV Show

1. Outlander
2. Game Of Thrones
3. Grey's Anatomy

Top Movie

1. Wonder Woman
2. The Fate Of The Furious
3. It

Highlight Of The Year

Tonight Alive performing My Favourite Thing from their 2010 EP on their Back To Beginnings Tour. It's in the top three songs I want to hear/see performed live before I die. 

Prediction For 2018

Women across genres taking a stronger position on the frontline of Australian popular music in domestic and international markets.