{"id":871681,"date":"2026-08-26T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:50:12","slug":"youth-music-awards-2026-nominations-announced-see-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871681\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Music Awards 2026 Nominations Announced: See Full List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Youth Music Awards<\/a> are hitting the road. Nominations for the 2026 ceremony have been unveiled, with this year\u2019s event moving from London to Liverpool for the first time since its launch in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTaking place at St George\u2019s Hall on Oct. 28, the event shines a spotlight on the emerging artists and community projects helping shape the future of British music. The 2026 shortlist spans 11 categories, recognising talent both onstage and behind the scenes, as well as the young leaders working to make the U.K. music industry more accessible.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 60 judges from across the sector will select this year\u2019s winners, representing companies including Apple, Meta, Sony Music, Spotify, Universal Music Group and YouTube. Artist judges include BRIT Award winner Myles Smith, DJ duo Bicep, heavy rockers ALT BLK ERA, Faithless\u2019 Sister Bliss and BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Introducing presenters Snoochie Shy and Jess Izsatt.<\/p>\n

Among this year\u2019s nominees are several Liverpudlian acts, spanning singer-songwriters Livvy K, Bethane and Astles to rapper KOJ, giving the host city a strong presence across the shortlist.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rising star award (artist) features bilingual rapper Hulton, Livvy K, Marz Fay, Righteous Reck and Roukaya B. The lyricist award shortlist includes Astles, KOJ, M. Yesekaon, and Sunkissed Child, while the music video award features Dayzy, Hillarynx and Simon A. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs per a press release, the event\u2019s relocation to Liverpool will create 23 paid opportunities for young people in the city and across the North West region, with roles including photographers, PR assistants, content creators and event runners. The Youth Music Awards Access Fund, funded by Sony Music, will also support nominees with travel costs to and from the event.<\/p>\n

Three recent Mercury Prize winners have been previously supported by Youth Music-backed projects: Sam Fender (2025) received early funding through the Newcastle-based organisation Generator, English Teacher (2024) won the Youth Music Awards\u2019 rising star award in 2022. Ezra Collective (2023) developed through London youth groups Tomorrow\u2019s Warriors and Kinetika Bloco.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Carol Reid, interim co-CEO at Youth Music said: \u201cWe\u2019re so excited to announce this year\u2019s Youth Music Awards nominees. It\u2019s an inspiring snapshot of what a more diverse and creative music industry could look like, if we support grassroots music. These are the future changemakers of our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the full list of nominees below.<\/p>\n

\t\tRising star award (industry)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHoney Keenan
Jed Wright
Rianne Lewis <\/p>\n

\t\tRising star award (artist)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHulton
Livvy K
Marz Fay
Righteous Reck
Roukaya B <\/p>\n

\t\tLyricist award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAstles
KOJ
M. Yesekaon
Simon A
Sunkissed Child <\/p>\n

\t\tMusic video award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDayzy
Hillarynx
IMVN
Simon A <\/p>\n

\t\tMusic producer award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCherry Seraph
IMVN
Jelia
Melba <\/p>\n

\t\tOriginal track award (group)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tC4Truth & RHIA
Ronn & Zuko Rosemeid
TRACKS COLLECTIVE <\/p>\n

\t\tOriginal track award (solo)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBEASTIE
Bethane
Hana
Shiloh
ONYINY\u00c9
YV Shells <\/p>\n

\t\tOutstanding project\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBlue Cabin, This is the Place (North East)
Carousel, The Rock House (South East)
Conscious Youth CIC, Elevation Music (Yorkshire & The Humber)
Jack Drum Arts, Growing Green Music (North East)
Jubacana, Music Futures (North West)<\/p>\n

\t\tSocial action award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCompass Collective (London)
Ros Hawley, Songbirds Music UK CIC (North West)
Thrive Project (North East)
TiPP (North East)<\/p>\n

\t\tYoung leader award\t<\/p>\n

\n\tFinn Simpson Murphy (Young Producers)
Josh Dickinson (NextGen Fund)
Ria Leah (The Spit Game U.K.)<\/p>\n

\t\tInspirational music leader\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAbi Johnson (The Music Works)
Holly Prest (Jubacana Music Futures)
Souria Boudina (New Sounds of Crawley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Youth Music Awards are hitting the road. Nominations for the 2026 ceremony have been unveiled, with this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3042,35979,49,48,75,341,15111,44,262161],"class_list":["post-871681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-billboard-uk","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-news","tag-uk-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}