16 December 2002 - 0 Comments

The unprecedented success of New Zealand music in 2002 has been hammered home again this week with the release of radio and recording industry magazine Median Strip's RadioScope end of year airplay charts, which see local songs sitting pretty in the top spots of most radio formats' airplay statistics for the year.

Anika Moa's "Falling In Love Again" takes top honours in the overall Airplay Top 200, narrowly pipping Bic Runga's "Get Some Sleep" to be the most played song on all New Zealand radio in 2002.

In the format-by-format breakdown, local tunes scored the highest number of plays on Urban radio (Katchafire's "Giddy Up"), Adult radio (Bic Runga's "Get Some Sleep") and Alternative radio (Rhombus' "Clav Dub").

In a year during which overall home grown content on New Zealand radio occasionally topped 20% over all formats (the radio industry's "voluntary code" target for way down the line in 2007, as set by Broadcasting Minister Marion Hobbs earlier this year), Alternative Radio once again showed itself to be the leader of the pack in local support stakes, with local tracks by Rhombus,

The Phoenix Foundation and Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie coming in at numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively, and Kiwi tracks taking 17 of the Top 20 spots and making up 60% of the Top 100 for 2002. You can check out all eight end-of-year RadioScope airplay charts by clicking on the link below.

Thanks to www.radioscope.co.nz for this story.

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