Aotearoa Music Awards for Highest Selling New Zealand Artist

The Highest Selling New Zealand Artist is an Aotearoa Music Awards award which is presented annually to the New Zealand artist with the highest sales in the awards period. The awards are presented annually by Recorded Music NZ at the annual New Zealand Music Awards. Nominations are not normally announced in this category.[1] Before 2018, the Highest Selling New Zealand Album and Highest Selling New Zealand Single awards were presented.

Highest Selling New Zealand Album

Year Winner Album Ref.
2003 Bic Runga Beautiful Collision [2]
2004 Hayley Westenra Pure [3]
2005 Yulia Into the West [4]
2006 Fat Freddy's Drop Based on a True Story [5]
2007 Brooke Fraser Albertine [6]
2008 Opshop Second Hand Planet [7]
2009 The Feelers The Best of: '98–'08 [8]
2010 Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke [9]
2011 Brooke Fraser Flags [10]
2012 Six60 Six60 [11]
2013 Peter Posa White Rabbit: The Very Best of Peter Posa [12]
2014 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio [13]
2015 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio [14]
2016 Sol3 Mio On Another Note [15]
  • While nominees are not normally announced for this category, in 2015 nominees were included. The non-winning nominees for 2015 were: Broods – Evergreen, Devilskin – We Rise, Lorde – Pure Heroine and Six60 – Six60.

Highest Selling New Zealand Single

Year Winner Album Ref.
2003 Katchafire "Giddy Up" [16]
2004 Ben Lummis "They Can't Take That Away" [17]
2005 Dei Hamo "We Gon' Ride" [18]
2006 Rosita Vai "All I Ask" [19]
2007 Atlas "Crawl" [20]
2008 Opshop "One Day" [21]
2009 Smashproof featuring Gin Wigmore "Brother" [22]
2010 Stan Walker "Black Box" [23]
2011 Brooke Fraser "Something in the Water" [24]
2012 Six60 "Don't Forget Your Roots" [25]
2013 Flight of the Conchords "Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)" [26]
2014 Lorde "Royals" [27]
2015 Savage and Timmy Trumpet "Freaks" [28]
2016 Six60 "White Lines" [29]

References

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