Music Videos & New Recordings & Radio Hits Decisions From NZ On Air’s August 2005 Meeting

19th August 2005

Music Videos

In this first round for the 2005/2006 funding year, NZ On Air received 132 applications. This funding year, they have increased the budget for music videos and instead of doing the 140 that were budgeted for last year, they have the budget to do 160 projects this year.

In the current round, 59 projects made it to the first shortlist i.e. 59 contenders for one of the 26-27 grants available.

Each project will get $5,000 towards making a music video. Decisions are based on airplay potential after testing the songs with music video broadcasters and taking into account current radio priorities.

Central Records/OG featuring Ladi6/Change For The Better
Elite Recordings/Dukes/Rather Be With You
EMI Music/Breaks Co-Op/A Place For You
EMI Music/The Finn Brothers/Disembodied Voices
EMI Music/Greg Johnson/Don’t Be The One
EMI Music/Steriogram/Tsunami
Festival Mushroom Records/Goodnight Nurse/Our Song
Festival Mushroom/Phoenix Foundation/Slightest Shift In The Weather
Festival Mushroom Records/Sola Rosa/What If
Festival Mushroom Records/Dave Yetton/Honey Don’t Go
Hark Entertainment/Sarah Brown/Hands
Kimbra Johnson/Kimbra/Deep For You
Liberation Music/betchadupa/Weekend
Loop Recordings/Recloose/Dust
Move The Crowd Records/Tyree featuring Young Sid & Deach/Oh No
My Life Story/My Life Story/Fairytale Life
Pie Club Records/The Checks/Butter Boys
R Crew/Chong Nee/Scenarios
Siren Records/Goldenhorse/Four Minute Drive
Slow Rodriquez Records/Pluto/Baby Cruel
Sony-BMG/Amber Claire/On & On
Sony-BMG/Bic Runga/If I Had You
The Rabble/The Rabble/Carry On
Universal Music/Elemeno P/Pardon Me
Warner Music/the feelers/Playground Battle
Warner Music/Anika Moa/Wrestled With Your Angels

New Recordings

In this first round for the 2005/2006 funding year, NZ On Air received a big haul of 223 applications.

The first shortlisting produced 31 songs; the second resulted in 21 of those 31 going through to the third round. Of those 21, 10 of those projects will be done.

Each project will get $5,000 to record a song for radio. Decisions are based on commercial radio airplay potential, using commercial radio expertise and experience and testing the songs with commercial radio programmers.

All I Wanted by Ammp
You Know by Beatrootz
Wrapped In Plastic by Cobra Khan
There Goes Tane by Connan & The Mockasins
Made Of Love by Friends From Sweden
Spoken by Losing Face
Not Good For Me by Kat McDowell
Jim Jam by Mo’Reece
Spectacular Little Death by Motocade
That’s Us by Shore Syndicate

Radio Hits

[based on airplay in the April/June 2005 quarter]

Another 5 Radio Hits rebates for songs that have picked up significant airplay on commercial radio in the second quarter of 2005. Each project will get $5,000 (or the actual cost of recording and releasing the single, whichever is the lesser).

Decisions are based on analysing the RadioScope airplay charts, which are in turn based on airplay returns from 146 radio stations around the country.

Songs that have picked up significant airplay in this quarter but have already been funded via the Phase Four Album or New Recording schemes are not eligible for Radio Hits funding as well.