Voting For The 2025 Queensland Music Awards Is Open

It’s time: the voting for the 2025 Queensland Music Awards is open for the People’s Choice Awards. And, for the first time ever, a new category has been added for the general public to vote on - the Album of the Year.

A whopping 35 albums have been nominated, spanning pop, rock, country, soul, folk, and heavy. Notable acts include The Dreggs’ award-winning Caught In A Reverie, Confidence Man’s party-ridden 3AM (LA LA LA) and 3%’s barrier-breaking KILL THE DEAD. The full list of nominees can be found below.

As usual, voters are also encouraged to take their pick for Festival of the Year, Regional Venue of the Year, and Metropolitan Venue of the Year. Once voting closes at 11:59pm AEST on February 16, the votes will be combined with industry judging to determine the finalists and subsequent winner. You can find the voting portal here.

The QMAs are set to be held on March 25, at the Fortitude Music Hall. 

Cub Sport were the big winners at last year’s awards, taking out the Electronic category with Songs About It and Album Of The Year with Jesus At The Gay Bar. Also taking home two awards were Jem Cassar-Daley (who won the Pop and Song Of The Year awards with King Of Disappointment) and Bluey composer Joff Bush (who won the Music For Screen and Children’s Music awards with Cricket and Dance Mode, respectively).

Accolades and acceptance speeches were split between performances from Queensland icons. Emerging Artist of the Year winner Jude York performed Mr Porcelain, with his breathy voice transporting the audience to another dimension entirely. Felony, who won the Rock Award for Everyone I Like Wants To Kill Themselves, performed their award-winning single, much to the head-banging delight of everyone in the room. Taitu’uga performed his song Falealili Manusamoa, which won the World Award, and rapper and poet Sachém brought the energy as he masterfully performed My City.

Another standout performance of the night was a historic collaboration between the Country Award nominees: Hayley Marsten, Melody Moko, and Tori Forsyth. In a beautiful tribute to Lifetime Achievement Award winner James Blundell, the artists came together for a rendition of Way Out West.

QMAs 2025 PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD NOMINEES

METRO VENUE OF THE YEAR

Black Bear Lodge

Eatons Hill Hotel

Greaser

Lefty's Music Hall

OASIS Brisbane

Riverstage

The Brightside

The Cave Inn

The Fortitude Music Hall

The Junk Bar

The Princess Theatre

The Tivoli

The Triffid

REGIONAL VENUE OF THE YEAR

Banshees Bar & Artspace

Den Devine

Kings Beach Tavern

Kingston Butter Factory Cultural Precinct

Mo's Desert Clubhouse

Norton Music Factory

Sandstone Point Hotel

Solbar

Tanks Arts Centre

The Station SC

Wallaby Hotel

FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR

Airlie Beach Festival of Music

Big Pineapple Festival

Clairvaux MacKillop College's Battle of the Rock Bands

Feast of the Senses

Gympie Music Muster

Lasso Country Music Festival

The Long Sunset

Undertone Festival

Whitsundays Songwriter Festival

ALBUM OF THE YEAR *NEW*

3AM (LA LA LA) - Confidence Man

Años Migraños - Ghost Mutt

Between the Fires - Troy Cassar-Daley

Burnt Tapes - Eves Karydas

Call A Doctor - Girl and Girl

Caught in a Reverie - The Dreggs

Dopamine - AYLA

Ego Ride - Asha Jeffries

Gothic Summer - The Veronicas

Heartwood (solo) - Karl S. Williams

Homes and Hearts - Asleep at the Reel

Homesick - Buttered

I'm Sorry, Now Say it Back - Thelma Plum

If I get in, Where Would I Go? - Greta Stanley

If It Sucks, Turn It Up - Dune Rats

Keep The Faith - High Tropics

Kill The Dead – 3%

Legal Speed - Radium Dolls

Lifeline - Karen Law

Lost in Heaven - Chase Atlantic

Megaflower - Full Flower Moon Band

Modern Mending (of the Heart) - Eimhin

Nothing to Lose - Hollow Coves

Old Enough To Know Better - Lily Grace

Peregian - Andrew Butt Trio

Problem Child - Jude York

Searching For Life Beyond Tragedy - Wildheart

State of Love - WĪLMA LĀ

Still Water - Cigány Weaver

Sunday Sadness – Amy Shark

The Slipstream - Karen Jacobsen

This is how I remember it. - Beckah Amani

Yirinda - Fred Leone & Samuel Pankhurst

Zora – Sheppard

Zorb - Sycco

Voting is open now. Find more information here.