Decisions From NZ On Air's October 2006 Meeting

12th October 2006

[Note: there were no New Recording Artist decisions from this meeting. The next New Recording Artists funding round is the December round.]

Music Videos

This is the second funding round for the 2006/2007 funding year. This year, NZ On Air has increased the budget for music videos and budgeting on funding 170 music videos this year - up from 160 in last year's budget.

In this second round for the year, 102 applications were received. Of the 102 applications, 42 projects made it to the first shortlist. That's 38 contenders for one of the 28-29 grants available.

29 projects will be done in this round, including the winner of the 2006 smokefreerockquest. The successful applications are listed below.

Each project will get $5,000 to make a music video. Decisions are based on the airplay potential of the song and the strategic value of the music video to the radio airplay campaign. Airplay potential is measured by first testing the songs with the music video broadcasters and then NZ On Air factors in current radio priorities.

· 1157 Records/Cobra Khan/Sleepless Lions

· Arch Hill Recordings/Don McGlashan/This Is London

· Bounce Records/Nesian Mystik/People

· Breakin' Wreckwordz/Cyphanetik/Rollin' With Punches

· Clientele Records/Ill Semantics/Goodbye

· Dawn Raid Entertainment/Deceptikonz/It's Alright

· Dirty Records/PNC/Who Better Than This

· Do It Management/5Star Fallout/Superhero

· Handmade Records/Chong Nee/Comfortable

· Kimbra Johnson/Kimbra/Simply On My Lips

· Liberation Music/Deja Voodoo/Fratnation

· Lil Chief Records/The Reduction Agents/The Pool

· Loop Recordings/Paul McLaney/Let Me Count The Ways

· Rockmelon Records/Exiles/The One

· Round Trip Mars/SJD/Bad Karma In Yokohama

· Short Stack Records/Steriogram/Talk About It

· Siren Records/Annabel Fay/Lovin' You Baby

· Smokefreerockquest/Neil Robinson/The Epic Battle Of Jude

· Solaa Productions/Solaa/Sylphlike

· Sony BMG Music/Brooke Fraser/Deciphering Me

· Speak'n'Spell/Shaky Hands/Expectations

· Tardus Music/Cassette/Ain't That Bad

· Tardus Music/Die! Die! Die!/155

· Tardus Music/Minuit/Fake

· The Chalk/The Chalk/Get Up

· The Have/The Have/Oh Oh My My

· Truetone/Shapeshifter/Electric Dream

· Universal Music/Elemeno P/SOS

· Universal Music/The Bleeders/Night Sky

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Radio Hits
[based on airplay in the July/September 2006 quarter]

In this Radio Hits funding round, NZ On Air will do the usual five projects.

The five that will be done this time are songs that have picked up significant airplay on commercial radio in the third quarter of 2006. 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.

· I Love You Too by Aaradhna (Dawn Raid Entertainment)

· Is This Real? by Atlas (Elements Music)

· Roady by Fat Freddy's Drop (The Drop)

· Lost In Translation by Frontline (Dirty Records)

· Cruizin' by Zero T (King Music)

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