Rob Ruha, Troy Kingi, Reb Fountain and Aldous Harding have been named as finalists in the 2022 Silver Scroll Awards.
The top 20 songs and top 5 Māori songs were unveiled on Thursday, along with the news of the return of a glitzy award event.
For the first time in three years, there will be a full-scale event at Auckland's Spark Arena on Tuesday October 18 to celebrate Aotearoa music, waiata, and composition.
Over 300 entries were assessed by the panel, before being whittled down to just 25 finalists.
APRA members are now being asked to vote for their top songs, which will determine the Silver Scroll Top 5 and Maioha Top 3 including the overall winners.
2022 APRA Silver Scroll Award | Kaitito Kaiaka and APRA Maioha Award finalists
2022 APRA Silver Scroll Top 20
· 35 written by Rob Ruha, Kaea Hills, Te Amorutu Broughton, Ainsley Tai, Dan Martin, Whenua Patuwai, performed by Ka Hao and Rob Ruha
· Aho/Beams written by Anna Coddington*, Steph Brown, James Ikner, performed by Anna Coddington* and Louis Baker (*published by Mushroom)
· Andy written and performed by Emily C. Browning
· Ankle Deep written and performed by Christabel
· Best Behaviour written by Chelsea Jade and Tyler Spry*, performed by Chelsea Jade (*ASCAP)
· Beyond the Stars written by Tami Neilson and Delaney Davidson performed by Tami Neilson and Willie Nelson (published by Native Tongue)
· Bit Part written by Nicholas Cunningham and Dorian Noval, performed by TOOMS
· Find Me written by Muroki Mbote Wa Githinji and Josh Fountain* performed by Muroki (*Universal Music Publishing PTY LTD)
· Garden of Eden written and performed by Ny Oh
· Girl At Night written by Natalie Hutton, Minnie Robberds, Joel Becker, Angus Murray, performed by There's A Tuesday (published by Native Tongue)
· He Ōrite written by Troy Kingi*, Iraia Whakamoe, Ryan Prebble, James Coyle, performed by Troy Kingi and The Nudge (*published by LOOP/Kobalt Music Publishing)
· I Got You written by Georgia Lines, Jason Schoushkoff performed by Georgia Lines
· I'm A Bit Out Of Shape written and performed by Luke Buda (published by Native Tongue)
· Iris written and performed by Reb Fountain (published by Native Tongue)
· Lawn written and performed by Aldous Harding
· My Boy written and performed by Marlon Williams (published by Native Tongue)
· My Heart Never Sleeps written by Diggy Dupé, P. Smith aka Troy Kingi*, Choice Vaughan, performed by Diggy Dupé and Troy Kingi (*Published by LOOP/Kobalt Music Publishing)
· Not Today written by Steph Brown and James Ikner, performed by Lips
· Peacetime Orders written by Anthonie Tonnon and Jonathan Pearce performed by Anthonie Tonnon
· Taku Raumiri written by Herea Winitana, Turanga Merito, performed by Uru Whetu, Torere, Te Aroha
2022 APRA Maioha Award Top 5 finalists
· Te Aroha Mauroa written and performed by MOHI
· Rangatira/Owner written and performed by Ria Hall (published by LOOP/Kobalt Music Publishing)
· E Hine Ē written by Em-Haley Walker, performed by TE KAAHU
· Te Iho written by Aja Ropata, Byllie-Jean, Chris Wethey performed by AJA & Byllie-Jean
· Taera written by Rob Ruha, Rory Noble*, performed by Rob Ruha (*published by Universal Music Publishing)
