VANCE Joy leads the nominations in the 2014 APRA Awards announced today.

Joy, the stage name for songwriter James Keogh, has four nominations including song of the year for Riptide. The other nominees for song of the year are The Drones, A Moat You Can Stand In, The Preatures, Is This How You Feel?, Birds of Tokyo, Lanterns, and Matt Corby, Resolutions. Vance Joy is also vying for breakthrough songwriter of the year alongside Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield of Jagwar Ma. Queenslanders Bernard Fanning, Sheppard and Busby Marou are also nominated for the Australian Performing Right Association awards, which are being presented in Brisbane for the first time on June 23.