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The years 2004–2005 are often seen as a high-water mark for the popularity of hip hop music in New Zealand, and a book on the subject, Hip Hop Music In Aotearoa, won a national book award. [ 6 ] Smashproof's single "Brother", featuring singer Gin Wigmore , reached the top of the New Zealand charts in 2009.
As of July 2018, the song has amassed over 8 million streams between Spotify and YouTube. Midnight Youth's debut album, The Brave Don't Run, was released in New Zealand on 27 April 2009, and peaked at number two on the New Zealand Album Chart. The album was certified platinum in New Zealand in December 2009.
Ka Hao is a New Zealand youth choir that formed in 2019. Coming from the Gisborne District, the group performs music in the Māori language.In 2020 the group won the Mana Reo Award at the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards, as a part of the supergroup Mōhau.
TVNZ U, more known as U, was an interactive youth-oriented New Zealand television channel, owned and operated by TVNZ. The channel launched on 13 March 2011, and featured reality programming, as well as an interactive live show and music content. It replaced the now defunct TVNZ 6. Leading up to the launch of U, there were 13 days' worth of ...
In the same issue Bradbury, who was at the time editor of Rip it Up, cited the need for a station such as channel Z to support the New Zealand music industry. He claimed "Channel Z served an important role between the Student Radio Network and the commercial stations" and that with it gone "New Zealand music is going to find it a much harder ...
In October 2009, the band released their self-titled debut album, and spent the next few years extensively touring New Zealand and Australia. [2] The band's singles "Good Love" (2012) and "Tell Her" (2013) received major radio airplay in New Zealand, [ 2 ] becoming their first songs to chart in New Zealand.
In 2015, Winston Peters released a statement that the NZ First youth wing did not exist and that Rolinson had been “told countless times never to call himself the president or leader of a youth wing.” Despite this, Young New Zealand First formally became part of the party, with a role set by the party's constitution, after a remit passed at ...
The song, performed primarily in Māori, was a sleeper hit, first entering the New Zealand Singles Chart in Te Wiki o te Reo Māori in September 2021 and peaking at number 12 in November. "35", alongside New Zealand band Six60's song "Pepeha" (also released in 2021), are the best performing songs sung in Māori since Stan Walker's "Aotearoa ...