Recorded Music NZ is Seeking Your Input & Feedback via an Online SurveySeptember 15, 2025

Recorded Music NZ exists to serve the collective interests of recording artists and rights holders across Aotearoa and we’d love to hear from you. We have published an online survey seeking input, feedback and ideas about the activities and focus of Recorded Music NZ into the future.

You can read on below for some more information, or click here to take the survey now.

Since 2022, Recorded Music NZ has been working through a 3-year strategic plan informed by feedback from our 2022 member survey.

We have re-focused our team and activities, with the goal of getting Recorded Music in great shape to serve our members into the future. You can read more about this work below.

With our new Board now in place, we are looking to the future and would hugely appreciate our members taking the time to complete our 2025 survey, to reflect on progress already made and underway and to help inform our next steps as an organisation. We would also value feedback from industry partners and the music community.

You have the option to complete the survey anonymously, however – if you don’t mind being attributed when the survey is discussed internally by the Recorded Music Board and team, or potentially being contacted by us about your feedback – please do include your contact details.

We may choose to publish headline results from the survey but we will not publicly attribute comments to any person unless that is specifically agreed.

If you would prefer to have a chat in person or by video call please email feedback@recordedmusic.co.nz and we will be in touch.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 3-YEAR PLAN

In 2022 Recorded Music introduced a 3-year plan to re-focus our team and activities with the goal of getting Recorded Music’s core business in great shape to serve our members into the future.

Highlights from the last three years include:

• Refocusing our core business. We have undertaken significant work to strengthen the systems, processes and policies needed to futureproof our organisation and preserve distribution for our members. We distributed over $37.5m to rights holders and recording artists during 2023, 2024 and 2025 and are currently part way through a two-year project to upgrade to a new system to manage data and distributions. The system has been developed for us by PPL, our equivalent collective management organisation in the UK, and is supported by services delivered by PPL. The new system will deliver a step change in our service to members and help to more effectively connect with the rest of the world.
• Refreshing and relaunching the Aotearoa Music Awards. The Aotearoa Music Awards was relaunched in 2024, after a pause in 2023 as we considered the outcomes of our 2022 review. We brought AMA back at a new venue, with a refreshed format and at a new time of year, closing out Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa | NZ Music Month in style. The new event has been accompanied by a shiny new website and social media presence – and in 2025 we were honoured to celebrate 60 years of the Music Awards in Aotearoa.
• Changes to the Official Charts. We have:
  • Renamed as the Official Aotearoa Music Charts, alongside the launch of a new and improved Charts website and updated te reo Chart titles
  • Taken steps in 2023 to freshen up the Charts by introducing a new suite of Catalogue Charts
  • Returned to publishing the Charts on Fridays, meaning the Aotearoa Charts are the first to be published in the world each week
  • Launched a new suite of social media assets and a strategy focused on supporting artists to engage with their fans
• Advocacy. We have advocated for the collective interests of recording artists and rights holders across Aotearoa, including:
  • Work that helped to secure the extension of copyright term for sound recordings in NZ
  • With APRA AMCOS and the NZ Music Commission, leading the development of an NZ Music Industry Manifesto | Te Pae Ahumahi Puoro O Aotearoa ahead of the 2023 General Election
  • With APRA AMCOS, calling on government to regulate AI and require AI companies to act responsibly