FUNKY KIDS RADIO GLOBAL AWARDS

The Funky Kids Radio Global Children's Entertainment Awards are an annual online event that launched in 2020, which honours children's entertainers, storytellers, artists and authors, who create music, videos and stories suitable for families and children - from tiny tots to tweens

NOMINATIONS for the 2024 open 1st November '24

 

2024 CATEGORIES: Song, Kindie Song, Music Video, Animated Video,  Audio Story, Youth Radio Show or Podcast and Children's Picture Book of the Year 2023

PLUS THE PRESIDENTS AWARD (chosen from across all categories)

& ALBUM OF THE DECADE

PEOPLE'S CHOICE CATEGORIES: Artist, Song, Album, Music Video & Animated Video of the Year 2024

 

The Funky Kids Radio Global Children’s Entertainment Awards were launched at the end of 2020 in celebration of FKR’s 10th Anniversary, as well as to acknowledge children’s entertainers all over the world who were so deeply impacted by the global events of 202/21. These awards were an instant success with over 280 nominations received from 11 countries, and they are now an annual event on the Funky Kids Radio calendar, with nominations opening on 1 November each year. Finalists are chosen in January by a combination of People’s Choice voting and a Selection Committee and then the category finalists are assessed by an International Panel of Judges comprised per category of 2 industry professionals and 3 children/teenagers from around the world. Winners are announced in February each year.  If you are interested in being a judge for the 2024 Global Children’s Entertainment Awards please email awards @ funkykidsradio.com

New categories launched for the 2023 Awards

~ Youth Radio Show or Podcast of the Year and Kindie Song of the Decade ~

New categories launched for the 2022 Awards

~ Picture Book of the Year and Audio Story of the Decade ~

HALL OF FAME – CATEGORIES & WINNERS

GLOBAL AWARD CATEGORIES

  • Song of the Year
  • Winner 2023 -  'If I Tell Myself I Can' Remix by Ashley Mills Monaghan & Uncle Dox, USA
  • Winner 2022 - 3 Join Winners, all gaining exact equal score from the judges! 'Tuko Pamoja' by I CAN Children, Uganda / 'Let's Make Lemonade' by Loopy Tunes, New Zealand / 'I Am' by Team T&J, Canada
  • Winner 2021 – ‘No Such Thing as Waste’ by Formidable Vegetable, Australia
  • Winner 2020 – ‘Quietly’ by Heleina Zara, Australia
  • Album of the year (added 2021)
  • Winner 2023 - Accents of Love by Vivian Fang Liu, USA
  • Winner 2022 – ‘Minor Third’ by The Relative Minors, Canada
  • Winner 2021 – ‘Garbage Guts’ by Formidable Vegetable, Australia
  • Music Video of the Year
  • Winner 2023 - 'I is Love' by Vivian Fang Liu, USA
  • Winner 2022 – ‘Belong’ by Vivian Fang Liu, USA
  • Winner 2021 –  'Guardians of Papatūānuku' by Loopy Tunes, New Zealand
  • Winner 2020 – ‘Change the World’ by Mr. T and Friends, USA
  • Animated Video of the Year
  • Winner 2023 - 'Singalong' by Jeremy Redmore, New Zealand
  • Winner 2022 –  'Eleanor Feels Again' by Marshmellow, New Zealand
  • Winner 2021 – ‘Words’ by Danny Weinkauf, USA
  • Winner 2020 – ‘My Name is Juno’ by Claudia Robin Gunn, New Zealand
  • President's Award (added 2021)
  • Winner 2023 - 'The Just Like Me Game' picture book by Karen Desmules, Canada
  • Winner 2022 - 'Winthali' picture book by Joe Willigan Ross and Stacey Bush, Australia
  • Winner 2021 - 'Kia Ora Are Such Beautiful Words' animated video by Chris Sanders New Zealand
  • Special Commendation Award (a special non-annual award for service to the community - added 2021)
  • Winner 2021 - I Can South Sudan Children's Choir Uganda / South Sudan
  • Children's Picture Book of the Year (added 2022)
  • Winner 2023 - 'Who's Afraid of the Light?' by Anna McGregor, Australia
  • Winner 2022 - 'The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist' written by Juliette MacIver, New Zealand & illustrated by Sara Davis, Australia
  • Children's Audio Story of the Year (added 2022)
  • Winner 2023 - 'The Legend of Okatia' by The Kars, New Zealand
  • Children's Audio Story of the Decade (added 2022)
  • Winner 2022 - 'Okee Dokee Goatee' by Chris Sanders, New Zealand
  • Youth Radio Show of Podcast of the Year (added 2023)
  • Winner 2023 - 'Shipwreck Sunday' by Captain Festus McBoyle, New Zealand
  • Kindie Song of the Decade (added 2023)
  • Winner 2023 - 'Tuko Pamoja' by I Can South Sudan Children's Choir Uganda / South Sudan

 

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD CATEGORIES