AMA 2025 People's Choice Terms & Conditions

Aotearoa Music Awards 2025 JD Sports Tā Te Iwi | People’s Choice Award

Artist Eligibility Criteria and Terms & Conditions of Voting

Eligibility Criteria

All artists who have been selected as AMA finalists in the General, Māori, Genre and Breakthrough Artist | Te Iti Rearea o te Tau Award categories (as defined in the AMA Terms and Conditions of Entry) are eligible for the JD Sports Tā Te Iwi | People’s Choice Award (Award). Artists may choose to opt out of consideration for the Award if they wish.

Voting Rules & How to Vote

Voting for the Award: will commence on or about 05.00 (NZT) on Tuesday 20 May 2025. Voting will close at 17.00 (NZT) on Tuesday 27 May 2025 (the Voting Window). For the avoidance of doubt, Recorded Music NZ may in its sole discretion extend the Voting Window by giving notice on the Aotearoa Music Awards social channels (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok etc.).

Voting is open worldwide during the Voting Window and any person with an email address can vote via the process set out on the Aotearoa Music Awards JD Sports Tā te Iwi | People’s Choice site here: peopleschoice.aotearoamusicawards.co.nz

Only one vote per email address will be counted and the two-step authentication process must be completed for votes to count.

Any votes registered outside of the Voting Window will not count and Recorded Music NZ is entitled to disregard any such vote.

It is not possible to vote via any method not stated in these Terms and Conditions.

The artist who receives the most votes during the Voting Window (as verified by an independent scrutineer) will win the Award. The winner will be revealed at the AMA Event on 29 May 2025.

Recorded Music NZ reserves the right to discount votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting or voting which is designed to unfairly influence the outcome of the vote has occurred (including certain bulk voting) and to discount votes which are not submitted in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. If users are found to be using multiple email addresses to vote, their votes may be discounted.

Where circumstances outside the reasonable control of Recorded Music NZ make it unavoidable, we may suspend, withdraw or reset voting in our sole discretion and without notice at any time. Recorded Music NZ may also without notice in its sole discretion at any time amend these Terms and Conditions and/or change the rules for participating in the vote and/or the availability of the voting service. Any updates to the rules or method of voting will be announced at aotearoamusicawards.co.nz

Recorded Music NZ, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies, including the Award Sponsor JD Sports, do not accept any responsibility or liability whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote being lost or not properly registered or recorded.

Your vote, which may contain personal data relating to you (e.g. your name and email address), may be processed by us and selected third parties for the purposes of determining the winner of the Award and related vote analysis only, and will be processed in accordance with the Recorded Music NZ Privacy Policy set out here: aotearoamusicawards.co.nz/pages/privacy-policy

If you have any problems with voting or any query or complaint, you may email us at ama@recordedmusic.co.nz