NZ on Air Music Videos & New Recordings Decisions
26th June 2007



NZ on Air have released their Music Video and New Recordings funding decisions from their June 2007 Meeting and in the latest round the following Christchurch artists received funding.  Music video grants were given to Pine for 'Hosanna', Atlas for 'Magic 8' and Dukes for 'Lil' Brat', while Icelandic folk popster Hera gained a New Recording grant for 'Feels So Good'.

In terms of Music Videos, this is the last funding round for the 2006/2007 funding year (to 30 June).  Regarding New Recordings, this is the fourth funding round since the revamp of the New Recording Artists scheme in June last year and the final round for the funding year. This funding year, NZ On Air are trying something new with the New Recording Artists scheme. 

Instead of funding 40 projects at $5,000 each, they are funding 20 projects at $10,000 each - $5,000 to record a radio single and an additional (conditional) $5,000 for a music video to support the release of the song. That means that they are looking for just five projects in each of the four funding rounds in this funding year.
 
There were no Radio Hits decisions from this meeting.  The next Radio Hits decisions - based on airplay in the April/June 2007 quarter - will be announced after the next NZ On Air meeting in August.
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Music Videos

This funding year, NZ On Air budgeted on doing 170 music videos - up on the 160 projects that we did last year.

In this last round for the year, they received 118 applications, up a little on the 96 received in the last round in April.  Of the 118 applications, 46 projects made it to the first shortlist.

31 projects will be funded in this round to take them to the full complement of 170 for the year.  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 factor in current radio priorities.

· Age Pryor/Age Pryor/Shanks Pony
· Anji Sami/Anji Sami/El Dorado
· Arch Hill Recordings/Pine/Hosanna
· Badtown/Badtown/Jonny Rude
· Belle Starr/Dukes/Lil' Brat
· Breakin' Wreckwordz/Cyphanetik/Till My Death
· Brutally Frank/Brutally Frank/Unceasing
· Deadboy Records/False Start/This Is My Life
· Elements Music/Atlas/Magic 8
· EMI Music/Pluto/1963
· EMI Music/The Black Seeds/Cool Me Down
· Filthy Lucre Enterprises/The Rabble/Seeking
· Flying Nun Records/The Mint Chicks/Last Chance To Be Famous
· Kin'sland Records/Steve Abel & Kirsten Morell/Duet (Lonely I Be)
· Liberation Records/Liam Finn/Second Chance
· Loop Recordings/Adi Dick/Beautiful View
· Loop Recordings/Paul McLaney/Pick Up The Pieces
· Move The Crowd Records/Ethical/On My Throne
· Move The Crowd Records/Young Sid/I've Been Through
· My Life Story/My Life Story/Pride
· Neown Records/So So Modern/Skeleton Dance
· Round Trip Mars/SJD/I Wrote This Song For You
· Simple Day/Simple Day/Amit The Indian
· Sony BMG Music/The Electric Confectionaires/Piece Of My Heart
· Tardus Music/Fur Patrol/Long Distance Runner
· Tone Tonic/Solstate/Against & With
· Truetone/Shapeshifter/One
· Warner Music/Evermore/My Guiding Light
· Warner Music/the feelers/Trying To Get By
· Warner Music/The Phoenix Foundation/Bright Grey
· Worldfresh Records/Spacifix/Old School
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New Recordings

In this fourth funding round under the new rules, NZ On Air received 236 applications.  The first shortlisting produced 40 songs, the second came to 19 and the third gave them the final ten.  Each of the final ten was then invited to give NZ On Air more information about the project and their plans for the song.

The five projects with the best combination of commercial radio airplay potential and a convincing plan for the recording, release and promotion of the song get the new $10,000 new artist funding package.  The five successful projects from the June round are -

· Hold You Here by Anna Coddington
· Journal by Daniel Munro
· Feels So Good by Hera
· Fake by The Braxton Hicks
· The Letter by The Midnight Youth

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