“Bluey” isn’t just one of the biggest TV shows in the world – it’s now an ARIA Award winner too.
The hugely popular animated series won Best Children’s Album for “Dance Mode!,” seeing off competition from Zinzi & the Zillionaires, The Wiggles, and more.
“Dance Mode!” is the second soundtrack album for “Bluey,” released in April 2023 by Demon Records. Most of the album’s music was composed and performed by Joff Bush and a team of accompanying musicians.
The ARIAs win isn’t the first award bestowed upon “Bluey.”
The series was named Best Children’s Program at the 2024 Logie Awards; Bush, the main composer for the show, won two categories at the 2024 Queensland Music Awards; and Bush broke a 15-year winning streak by composer Neil Sutherland when he collected Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas at the 2023 APRA Screen Music Awards.
That success has crossed over to the mainstream record sales charts. In January 2021, “Bluey The Album” became the first Australian children’s album to top the ARIA Albums Chart, when it opened at the summit.
The ARIAs win caps a major year for “Bluey”, which saw it become the most-watched show in the US.
As of September, “Bluey” was “now the No.1 most watched show (of all shows) in America for 2024,” according to “Bluey” executive producer Daley Pearson, director and co-founder of Queensland-based Ludo Studio. “How incredible,” Pearson added.
According to Nielsen Media Research data, the adventures of Bluey, the Aussie cattle dog, has racked up 35 billion minutes watched in 2024 alone.
Since its small screen debut on the ABC Kids in 2018, “Bluey” has connected with kids and their parents around the world, and has proven to be a smash hit on streaming platforms with the show ranking as the second most-streamed show of 2023 according to the Nielsen rankings, with 43.9 billion minutes viewed. Only “Suits” could outrun “Bluey,” with 57.7 billion minutes viewed.
Those full-year numbers were helped by the special episode “The Sign,” which, according to Disney+, the show’s streaming partner for the US, drew 10.4 million views globally in its first seven days of availability.