2025 PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS VOTING NOW OPEN
Presented by Oztix and 4ZZZ
#Queensland music lovers, voting for the 2025 QMA People’s Choice Awards is now open!
It's time to cast your vote for Queensland’s best festival, live music venues, and — for the first time — Album of the Year!
Presented by Oztix and 4ZZZ, the People’s Choice Awards are your moment to champion the artists and spaces that make our music scene thrive, including Festival, Metropolitan and Regional Venue of the Year - currently held by Gympie Music Muster, The Fortitude Music Hall and King's Beach Tavern, respectively.
The introduction of Album of the Year sees an extended list of 35 artists nominated, spanning pop, rock, country, soul, folk, heavy, and showcasing Queensland's best and brightest artists, from rising acts to household names.
The polls for the People's Choice Awards open Monday 3 February, at 11am AEST, and will close Sunday 16 February, 11:59pm AEST. From there the votes will be combined with industry judging to determine the finalists, with the winner to be announced at the Queensland Music Awards on 25 March.
Plus, every vote goes in the draw to win a BIGSOUND Festival pass for you and a mate!
#2025 People's Choice Awards 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
#Save the date
The 2025 Queensland Music Awards are returning to The Fortitude Music Hall on Tuesday, 25 March.
The finalists announcement is just around the corner, and tickets go on sale in mid February, with presale and discount opportunities available to QMusic members.
To become a QMusic member and access your QMA ticket discount as well as other member benefits, visit the QMusic website.
