Features
Lorde Makes Silver Scroll Shortlist
Lorde’s U.S. Top 5 runaway hit “Royals” was among five New Zealand songs shortlisted for the Silver Scroll songwriting award.
Photo: Carlos Castillo
Organised by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) for the past 48 years, the award recognises the best local song from the past 12 months. The Top 5 was voted for by APRA’s 10,000 NZ members.
The other songs were “Bird In Hand” by former Duchess and Handsome Geoffrey singer Anna Coddington, the Nashville-recorded “Complicated Man” by guitarist-singer Cy Winstanley, “Thames Soup,” the ode to homesickness by Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation and “Wake Up” by R&B singer Aaradhna.
The winner will be unveiled Oct. 15 at Auckland’s
The night also announces the winner of most-performed works in New Zealand and overseas, best work by Maori and classical contemporary artists, and the latest induction to the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.