2004 New Zealand Music Awards

2004 New Zealand Music Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in New Zealand music
Date	22 September 2004
Location	Aotea Centre, Auckland
Country	New Zealand
Host	Jaquie Brown Mikey Havoc
Official website	http://www.nzmusicawards.co.nz
Television/Radio coverage
Network	C4

The 2004 New Zealand Music Awards was the 39th holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical artists based in or originating from New Zealand. The awards were hosted by Jaquie Brown and Mikey Havoc at Aotea Centre on 22 September 2004. Eligible works were released between 1 January 2003 and 31 May 2004. The ceremony was screened on television channel C4 the following day.

Nominees and winners

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Key

 ‡  – Technical award

Album of the Year	Single of the Year
Scribe – The Crusader Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight Dimmer – You've Got to Hear the Music Goodshirt – Fiji Baby The Phoenix Foundation – Horsepower	Scribe – "Stand Up" Brooke Fraser – "Lifeline" Dimmer – "Getting What You Give" Goldenhorse – "Maybe Tomorrow" Goodshirt – "Buck It Up"
Best Group	Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Dimmer – You've Got To Hear The Music Elemeno P – Love & Disrespect Goodshirt – Fiji Baby	Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight Minuit – The 88 Adeaze – Always and for Real
Best Male Solo Artist	Best Female Solo Artist
Scribe – The Crusader Greg Johnson – Here Comes the Caviar Nathan Haines – Squire for Hire	Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight Bic Runga – Live in Concert with the Christchurch Symphony Hayley Westenra – Pure
Highest selling New Zealand Album	Highest selling New Zealand Single
Hayley Westenra – Pure At the time of the awards, Pure had been certified undecuple platinum.	Ben Lummis – "They Can't Take That Away" At the time of the awards, "They Can't Take That Away" had been certified quadruple platinum.
Songwriter of the Year	Best Music Video
Scribe, P-Money, Con Psy and Savage – "Not Many – The Remix!" Greg Johnson – "Save Yourself" Brooke Fraser – "Lifeline"	Chris Graham – "Stand Up" (Scribe) Gary Sullivan – "Getting What You Give" (Dimmer) Mark Trethewey and Shane Mason – "Fools Love" (Misfits of Science)
Best Rock Album	Best Urban/Hip Hop Album
Dimmer – You've Got to Hear the Music Elemeno P – Love & Disrespect Goodshirt – Fiji Baby	Scribe – The Crusader Mareko – White Sunday King Kapisi – 2nd Round Testament
Best Dance/Electronica Album	Best Māori Album
Salmonella Dub – One Drop East Concord Dawn – Uprising Shapeshifter – Riddim Wise LP	Ruia – Hawaiki Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunn and Aroha Yates-Smith – Te Hekenga-ā-rangi Whirimako Black – Tangihaku
Best Pacific Music Album	Best Jazz Album
Te Vaka – Tutuki Adeaze – Always and for Real The All Stars – Pele Ea	The Rodger Fox Big Band – A Rare Connection Charmaine Ford – Blues For Guppy The Frank Gibson Quartet – Rainbow Bridge
Best Classical Album	Best Gospel/Christian Album
John Psathas – Psathas : Fragments New Zealand String Quartet – Szekely /Dvorak NZSO – David Farquhar: Three Symphonies	Magnify – In Wonder Parachute Band – Glorious Peter Posa – My Pick
International Achievement	People's Choice Award
Hayley Westenra	Scribe Brooke Fraser Elemeno P Steriogram Zed Goodshirt
Radio Airplay Record of the Year	Lifetime Achievement Award
Goldenhorse – "Maybe Tomorrow"	Shaun Joyce
Best Producer‡	Best Engineer‡
P-Money – The Crusader (Scribe) Chris Van De Geer & Andrew McLaren – Passenger (Carly Binding) Murray Fisher – Fiji Baby (Goodshirt) Nic McGowan – The Taming Of The Wasps (Paselode) Paddy Free and Tiki Taane – One Drop East (Salmonella Dub)	Chris Van De Geer – Passenger – (Carly Binding) Clint Murphy – You Are Here (Opshop) Dr Lee Prebble – Horsepower (The Phoenix Foundation)
Best Album Cover‡
Ben Sciascia – Postage (Supergroove) Kelvin Soh, Simon Oosterdijk and Jay Sandler – You've Got to Hear the Music (Dimmer) Matt Barnes and Aaron McKirdy – Collider (Fur Patrol) Tana Mitchell – Horsepower (The Phoenix Foundation)