Music News - NZ On Air Music News and Funding Decisions - June 2012
16 June 2012 - 0 Comments
NZ Music On The Radio
The official March quarter local content figures are in. New Zealand music content on commercial radio in the 3 months to 31 March was 18.65%, fractionally up on the December 2011 quarter (18.52%). The March quarter counts Kiwi FM at 100% New Zealand music for two months and at 60% for one month, following the station's change in format. It counts two familiar stations - Radio Hauraki and George FM - for the first time. The songs that contributed most to the 18.65% in the March quarter was Six60's Only To Be, Annah Mac's Girl In Stilettos and The Babysitters Circus with their debut single, Everything's Gonna Be Alright, all supported by NZ On Air.
NZ Music Online
At the end of May, a new New Zealand music website called www.theaudience.co.nz launched. theaudience is a partnership between NZ On Air and Amplifier - New Zealand's longest established online New Zealand music site.
theaudience is a new music discovery site. It will enable new artists to build the audience for their work and generate the kind of "buzz" that will help them qualify for Making Tracks funding and go on to bigger and better things.
We see theaudience as a feeder for the Making Tracks funding scheme and a vehicle for supporting new and unreleased artists. This helps us to fulfill one of the important goals of the New Zealand music reforms to "balance support for established artists with support for new artists".
Check it out and find some great new music now.
Making More Tracks
We have now completed nine of the 10 Making Tracks funding rounds for the inaugural Making Tracks year. So far, we have taken in 1,087 applications and we have made 293 grants. Of those 293 projects, 118 or 40% are new artists or "first-timers". At the time that the Making Tracks scheme was launched last year, we said we would do a review at the end of the first year and fine-tune in the light of our experience in the field. The review will be done in two parts. Through June we will review the eligibility criteria, the applications process and the decision-making process so that we are able to fine-tune in time for the first intake of applications for the new funding year in July. Through July, once we have a complete year of grants, we will review the broadcast outcomes and impacts to check that Making Tracks is delivering the airplay results and diversity results that we are looking for.
Congratulations to NZ On Air Funded Artists
Brooke Fraser for winning the NZ On Air Radio Airplay Award at the 2012 Pacific Music Awards for her song,Betty, the most-played song by a Pacific artist in the awards qualifying year;
Adeaze for three Pacific Music Awards;
The Naked and Famous for a Gold single in the US (that's 500,000+ sales);
Home Brew for a #1 debut album in New Zealand;
Kimbra for a Top 20 US debut for herVows album and 26+million You Tube hits on her videos (and that doesn't count Somebody That I Used To Know and her amazing SXSW solo);
and to The Babysitters Circus and Avalanche City for TMN Hot 100 radio airplay songs in Australia in the last 12 months.
Funding Decisions
NZ Music International
Kids Of 88
Opossom
The Babysitters Circus
Tom Lark
Ruby Frost
Making Tracks
1814
Aaradhna
Ahoribuzz
Alizarin Lizard
Annah Mac
Artisan Guns
Badd Energy
Bailterspace
Bang Bang Eche
Beach Pigs
Beastwars
Beat Kamp
Black City Lights
Black River Drive
Blacklist
Brooke
Bury Me Low
Cavell
Clap Clap Riot
Cobra Khan
Collapsing Cities
Cool Rainbows
Dam Native
Decortica
Delaney Davidson
Dictaphone Blues
Die! Die! Die!
Doug Jerebine
Drew
Dukes
Earthworm
Five Mile Town
Glass Owls
Heart Attack Alley
Jamie McDell
Jason Eli Feat. Imagine
Kids Of 88
King Cannons
Late Nyte Hype
Lips
Loui The Zu with Leroy Clampitt
Luckless
Maisey Rika
Maitreya
Massad
MayaVanya and P Money
Mel Parsons
Mixt Frequencies
Mother Motor
Myele Manzanza Feat. Rachel Fraser
N.O.X Feat. Tyson Tyler
Opossom
Paper Plane
Pieter T
Popstrangers
Rackets
RIA
Ria Hall
Rival State
School For Birds
Sherpa
Sidney Diamond
Sir T
Skallander
Steve Abel
Sun And The Wolf
The Black Seeds
The Checks
The Datsuns
The Disco Three
The Drab Doo Riffs
The Eversons
The Good Fun
The Kumpnee
The Wild
Thought Creature
Tom Lark
Tommy Ill
Tono & The Finance Company
Toy Love
Transistors
Two Cartoons
Tyson Tyler
Urbantramper
Victoria Girling-Butcher
Villainy
Young Lyre
Zionhill
Zowie
Most Viewed Artists
Latest Galleries
NZ Top 10 Singles
- APT.
ROSÉ And Bruno Mars - DIE WITH A SMILE
Lady Gaga And Bruno Mars - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Billie Eilish - TASTE
Sabrina Carpenter - I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY
Gracie Abrams - ESPRESSO
Sabrina Carpenter - SAILOR SONG
Gigi Perez - LOSE CONTROL
Teddy Swims - A BAR SONG (TIPSY)
Shaboozey - GOOD LUCK, BABE!
Chappell Roan
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