In 2019, APRA AMCOS NZ announced a new award to be presented at the New Zealand Children’s Music Awards. In 2021, the Baysting Prize for Children’s Champion is going to What Now.

Aotearoa’s first annual music for screens ‘SYNC-POSIUM’ will bring together international music supervisors in film, gaming, TV and advertising together with musicians, songwriters and composers at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios on June 15th-18th 2021.

NZ Music T-Shirt Day returns this May to close NZ Music Month | Te Marama Puoro O Aotearoa with a nationwide celebration of local music and how it can make a positive difference in our lives.

The southern hemisphere’s biggest new music festival and industry gathering BIGSOUND is back for its 20th year in Brisbane from Tuesday the 7th to Thursday the 9th of September.

Tonight, the winner of the 2021 Taite Music Prize which highlights outstanding New Zealand albums released in the past year was awarded to Reb Fountain for her critically praised self-titled album released on Flying Nun Records.

The legacy of Pixie Williams, the evocative voice behind the number one 1949 hit Blue Smoke, continues with the reimagined album The New Blue. Containing 11 tracks of reworked gems, recorded by a collection of contemporary Kiwi vocalists, the album celebrates the enduring yet brief singing career of New Zealand’s first number one pop song vocalist and wāhine Māori artist.

This year, IMNZ pays respect to the Patea Māori Club for their groundbreaking single 'Poi E' released in 1983 on Maui Records.