Congratulations to all of this year's finalists:
Aldous Harding – Party (Flying Nun Records)
Fazerdaze – Morningside (Flying Nun Records)
Grayson Gilmour – Otherness (Flying Nun Records)
Kane Strang – Two Hearts and No Brain (Dead Oceans)
Mermaidens – Perfect Body (Flying Nun Records)
Nadia Reid – Preservation (SPUNK!)
TEEKS – The Grapefruit Skies (TEEKS)
The Bads – Losing Heroes (The Bads)
Previous Taite Music Prize winners:
2010 – Lawrence Arabia ‘Chant Darling’ (Honorary Bedouin Records)
2011 – Ladi6 – ‘The Liberation Of’ (Question? Music)
2012 – Unknown Mortal Orchestra – ‘Unknown Mortal Orchestra’ (Seeing Records)
2013 – SJD – ‘Elastic Wasteland’ (Round Trip Mars)
2014 - Lorde - 'Pure Heroine' (Universal)
2015 - Jakob - 'Sines' (Shoot The Freak)
2016 - Silicon - 'Personal Computer' (Weird World Recording Co / Universal Music NZ)
2017 – Street Chant – Hauora (Arch Hill Recordings)
NZ On Air spends $10,000 a year on supporting the Taite Music Prize.