ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Particulars: People’s Choice Awards: the work entered must be a singular song. Only one song can be entered per artist. Please note the ‘People’s Choice’ Award is subject to public voting and not industry voted. Any Artist or Band that engages in a negative campaign or incites hate speech or harassment to gain votes will be disqualified. Any obvious data corruption to gain votes will also be disqualified.  

• Best Studio: the studio must be located in South Australia and primarily used for recording music.
• Best Studio Engineer / Producer: the engineer or producer must reside in South Australia. Only those working in a studio environment either engineering or producing music are considered eligible.
• Best Live Engineer: the technician must have been residing in South Australia within the eligible date period. For the purpose of this award, the term technician refers to professionals working in live music in the areas of sound, lighting, stage, instrument and backline. Only those working in the live music sector are considered eligible.
• Best Small Festival or Music Event (under 1,000 capacity): the event must have taken place during the eligible period and must contain a line-up of at least 10% South Australian music. The presenter / promoter is either South Australian based OR must be promoting shows with a minimum involvement of 10% South Australian Music.
• Best Major Festival or Music Event (over 1,000 capacity): the event must have taken place during the eligible period. The presenter / promoter is either South Australian based OR must be promoting shows with a minimum involvement of 10% South Australian Music.
• Best Manager: the manager must have been active during the eligible period and have a current management contract in place.
• Best Live Music Venue: the venue must offer live original music for at least 80% of its entertainment.
• Best Regional Live Music Venue or Live Music Activation: the venue must reside in regional South Australia. The music activation must have taken place in regional South Australia.  
• Best Cover Art: the designer/artist/photographer must reside in South Australia, but the musical artist can be from anywhere in the world.
• Best Music Video: the director must reside in South Australia, but the musical artist can be from anywhere in the world.
• Best Innovation in Contemporary Music: the applicant must reside in South Australia and the innovation must have been publicly recognised in the eligibility period. Innovation ideas can include but are not limited to live streaming from a single source, media outlets, new technology and supportive services for original music.
• Best Music Educator: the applicant must reside in South Australia and must be actively teaching within the music education sector in the eligibility period. Music Educators includes lecturers, secondary education teachers and instrumental teachers.
• Best Song: the work entered must be a singular song and will be the selected track for the award.
• Best New Artist: the work entered must be the first single or a subsequent single lifted from the artist’s first EP/album.
• Best Regional Artist: the work entered must be a singular song and will be the selected track for the award. The recipient must reside in regional South Australia
• Best Solo Artist and Best Group: the work entered must contain at least 2 original different tracks.
• Best Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Artist: the applicant must have been active and released work during the eligible period and have at least 50% of its members identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
• Best Release (EP/Album): the work entered must be an official release, commercially recognised as either an EP or Album, with 3 songs or more.