From household names Keith Urban, The Veronicas and Amy Shark to emerging artists like Jem Cassar-Daley, Jesswar and Hope D, the Queensland Music Awards is an annual celebration of the state's best music.
Song, video, venue and festival nominations are now closed.
Album nominations close 21 November, 11:59PM AEST.
Pop Award
Heavy Award
Blues / Roots Award
Soul / Funk / R’n’B Award
Country Award
Hip Hop Award
Electronic Award
Jazz Award
World Award
Rock Award
Indigenous Award
Stage + Contemporary Classical Award
Children's Music Award
Youth Award (Ages 10 - 17)
Folk Award
Music for Screen Award
Video Award
Nominations close Thursday 14 November
Festival of the Year
Metro Venue of the Year
Regional Venue of the Year
Accessible Venue of the Year
Nominations close Thursday 14 November
Album of the Year
Song of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
Emerging Artist of the Year Award
Highest Selling Album
Highest Selling Single
Nominate your song/s to make Queensland music history in 2025! Judged by more than 100 top music industry professionals, the QMAs acknowledges and celebrates emerging and established artists across a diverse range of genres and categories.
Nominations for this category are now closed.
Filmmakers! Enter your music video to win the 2025 Video of the Year and join the ranks of the winning teams behind videos from WAAX, Eves Karydas, The Kite String Tangle, Lastlings and more.
Nominations for this category are now closed.
The 2025 Queensland Music Awards is proud to welcome back the People’s Choice Awards. Queensland's best regional and metro venues and festival will be decided by public vote, as well as judging by an expert industry panel, weighted at 60:40 respectively.
Are you Queensland's best venue? Nominate your Queensland-based venue to be decided by public vote, as well as judging by an expert industry panel.
When nominating for this award, you will be able to opt-in for the Accessible Venue of the Year category.
Nominations for this category are now closed.
Are you Queensland's best festival? Nominate your Queensland-based festival to be decided by public vote, as well as judging by an expert industry panel.
Nominations for this category are now closed.
Full-length albums released between December 2023 and November 2024 are eligible for this category.
Nominations for this category are collated by submissions by a QMAs panel of 100+ judges, album release lists (collated by established industry bodies) and additional nominations industry professionals and the public.
The Album of the Year is judged on production, songwriting and commercial success. If you wish to nominate an album, please complete this form.
