Tame Impala and Courtney Barnett have taken out the top awards at this year's APRA Music Awards.

Courtney Barnett was named Songwriter of the Year by the Australasian Performing Right Association at Carriageworks in Sydney overnight.

The win is part of a string of top gongs for the Melbourne singer-songwriter, who took out four ARIA awards last year and was awarded $30,000 for winning the Australian Music Prize.

Barnett's award ended Sia's history-making winning streak, after she was named Songwriter of the Year for three consecutive years from 2013-2015.

But Sia did not walk away empty handed, picking up the Most Played Australian Work Overseas award for Chandelier and ending Goyte's three-year winning streak for Somebody That I Used To Know.

Perth band Tame Impala won Song of the Year for their track Let It Happen, written by band frontman Kevin Parker.

This is Tame Impala's second Song of the Year win, after they won in 2013, and Parker said it was a relief.

"When you do something good and people commend you for it, you worry that it's the last time you're going to do something great," he said.

"It's such a relief that it's not the last time."

The band netted five awards at the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards last year, including Best Group and Album of the Year for their 2015 album Currents.

Peking Duk won Most Played Australian Work and Dance Work of the Year for Take Me Over ft. SAFIA.

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Hilltop Hoods took out the Urban Work of the Year award for their hit Cosby Sweater.

Jarryd James, Lee Kernaghan and Birds of Tokyo also walked away with awards.

International Work of the Year was awarded to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars for Uptown Funk.