New Zealand Music Award for Best Group

Best Group is a New Zealand Music Award that honours New Zealand groups that have release an outstanding album in the previous year. For the purposes of the award, a group consists of two or more people.^[1] The award winner is determined by the Voting Academy, along with a 30% sales performance weighting.^[2]

The award was first presented annually since 1970 as the Group Award as part of the Loxene Golden Disc awards, then as Recording Artist/Group of the Year as part of the Recording Arts Talent Awards. From 1978, the award has been presented as part of the New Zealand Music Awards, first named Top Group, then Best Group. Shihad has won the award twice and been nominated eight other times, The Chills have also won twice and been nominated one other time, while DD Smash and The Naked and Famous have each won twice.

Recipients

Loxene Golden Disc - Group Award (1970-1972)

Year	Winner	Album	Ref.
1970	Hogsnort Rupert	"Pretty Girl"	[3]
1971	Chapta	"Say a Prayer"	[4]
1972	Creation	"Carolina"	[5]

Recording Arts Talent Awards - Recording Artist/Group of the Year (1973-1977)

Year	Winner	Ref.
1973	Shona Laing	[6]
1974	Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band	[7]
1975	Mark Williams	[8]
1976	Dr Tree	[9]
1977	No awards held

New Zealand Music Awards (1978-present)

Year	Winner	Album	Other finalists	Ref.
Top Group
1978	Hello Sailor	N/A	N/A	[10]
1979	Th' Dudes			[11]
1980	The Crocodiles			[12]
1981	Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos		Newmatics Coup D'Etat	[13]
1982	DD Smash		Herbs The Narcs	[14]
1983	DD Smash		Herbs The Narcs	[15]
1984	Dance Exponents		The Mockers Patea Maori Club and Dalvanius Prime	[16]
Best Group
1985	Netherworld Dancing Toys	N/A	The Mockers Peking Man	[17]
1986	Peking Man		Patea Maori Club Satellite Spies	[18]
1987	The Chills		Ardijah Herbs	[19]
1988	Herbs		The Chills The Warratahs	[20]
1989	When the Cat's Away		The Warratahs Fan Club	[21]
1990	The Chills		Straitjacket Fits Fan Club	[22]
1991	No awards held
1992	Push Push	N/A	The Exponents Headless Chickens	[23]
1993	The Mutton Birds		Greg Johnson Set The Exponents	[24]
1994	Headless Chickens		Strawpeople Straitjacket Fits	[25]
1995	Supergroove		The Mutton Birds Headless Chickens	[26]
1996	Shihad		The Exponents The Mutton Birds Finn Brothers	[27]
1997	Garageland		Shihad The Mutton Birds	[28]
1998	Shihad		The Mutton Birds Dam Native	[29]
1999	The Feelers		Ardijah Shihad	[30]
2000	Stellar	Mix	Shihad – The General Electric Deep Obsession – Infinity	[31]
2001	Zed	Silencer	Tadpole – The Buddhafinger Shihad – Pacifier	[32]
2002	Salmonella Dub	Inside the Dub Plates	The Feelers – Communicate Zed – Silencer	[33]
2003	The Datsuns	The Datsuns	Goodshirt – "Sophie" Nesian Mystik – Polysaturated	[34]
2004	Dimmer	You've Got to Hear the Music	Elemeno P – Love & Disrespect Goodshirt – Fiji Baby	[35]
2005	Fat Freddy's Drop	Based on a True Story	Goldenhorse – Out of the Moon Shihad – Love Is the New Hate	[36]
2006	Elemeno P	Trouble In Paradise	Bleeders –As Sweet as Sin Fly My Pretties – The Return of... Fly My Pretties	[37]
2007	The Mint Chicks	Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!	Evermore – Real Life Opshop – Second Hand Planet	[38]
2008	Flight of the Conchords	Flight of the Conchords	Shihad – Beautiful Machine The Phoenix Foundation – Happy Ending	[39]
2009	Midnight Youth	The Brave Don't Run	Fat Freddy's Drop – Dr Boondigga and the Big BW The Mint Chicks – Screens (Mint Chicks album)	[40]
2010	The Phoenix Foundation	Buffalo	Shapeshifter – The System Is a Vampire The Checks – Alice by the Moon	[41]
2011	The Naked and Famous	Passive Me, Aggressive You	Shihad – Ignite Kids of 88 – Sugarpills	[42]
2012	Six60	Six60	Home Brew – Home Brew Opossom – Electric Hawaii	[43]
2013	Shapeshifter	Delta	Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird The Phoenix Foundation – Fandango	[44]
2014	The Naked and Famous	In Rolling Waves	Sole Mio – SOL3 MIO @Peace – @Peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony	[45]
2015	Broods	Evergreen	Shihad – FVEY Six60 – Six60 (2)	[46]
2016	Broods	Conscious	Fat Freddy's Drop – Bays Sole Mio – On Another Note The Phoenix Foundation – Give Up Your Dreams	[47]

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