Cub Sport, Busby Marou Lead 2024 QMAs Nominations

With two nominations, Cub Sport and Busby Marou lead the way for the 2024 Queensland Music Awards (QMAs), set for Wednesday, April 17 at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.

Homegrown electro-pop favourites Cub Sport are in the hunt for the electronic award (“Songs About It”) and pop award (“Keep Me Safe”), both lifted from the ARIA No. 1 album Jesus At The Gay Bar (via Believe).

Cub Sport are in rare form. After Jesus hit the top last April, their first leader, the group scooped best independent dance/electronica or club single (with “Always Got the Love”) at the 2023 AIR Awards in Adelaide and landed a hattrick of nominations at the 2023 ARIA Awards in Sydney.

Meanwhile, multiple APRA Music Award-winners Busby Marou are nominated for the QMAs' blues and roots and indigenous categories, both for “Conversation.”

Jem Cassar-Daley will go head-to-head with Cub Sport in the pop category, with her 2023 single “King of Disappointment.”

"It is a true honour and privilege to be a finalist in the Queensland Music Awards for 2024,” Cassar-Daley comments in a statement.

“I look forward to this event every year, being able to celebrate the crazy amount of talent we have in our state and catch up with great friends while doing it! It makes me so incredibly proud to be a part of such an inclusive and supportive music community, one that is worth celebrating."

Jem Cassar-Daley

This year, 25 categories will be presented, with more than 70 artists in the mix, including The Jungle Giants, Hatchie, Jaguar Jonze, Tia Gostelow, DZ Deathrays, Ziggy Alberts, Kevin Borich and Sahara Beck.

A 100-strong music industry panel voted for the 2024 QMA finalists, which includes categories for the contemporary classical & music for stage, children’s music, jazz, music for screen, rock, soul/funk/RnB, world, youth, and video.

Voting for the People’s Choice Awards is now open to the public.

The QMAs were launched in 2006 (then known as QSong) to celebrated the “brightest emerging artists and established legends” from the Sunshine State.

Tickets for the 2024 edition are on sale at qmusic.com.au, the official website for QMusic, producers of the annual ceremony with support from the Queensland Government.