Aotearoa Music Awards for Highest Selling New Zealand Artist
# Aotearoa Music Awards for Highest Selling New Zealand Artist

The Highest Selling New Zealand Artist is an Aotearoa Music Awards award which is presented annually to the New Zealand artist with the highest sales in the awards period. The awards are presented annually by Recorded Music NZ at the annual New Zealand Music Awards. Nominations are not normally announced in this category. Before 2018, the Highest Selling New Zealand Album and Highest Selling New Zealand Single awards were presented.

## Highest Selling New Zealand Album

| Year | Winner | Album |
| - | - | - |
| 2003 | Bic Runga | Beautiful Collision |
| 2004 | Hayley Westenra | Pure |
| 2005 | Yulia | Into the West |
| 2006 | Fat Freddy's Drop | Based on a True Story |
| 2007 | Brooke Fraser | Albertine |
| 2008 | Opshop | Second Hand Planet |
| 2009 | The Feelers | The Best of: '98–'08 |
| 2010 | Gin Wigmore | Holy Smoke |
| 2011 | Brooke Fraser | Flags |
| 2012 | Six60 | Six60 |
| 2013 | Peter Posa | White Rabbit: The Very Best of Peter Posa |
| 2014 | Sol3 Mio | Sol3 Mio |
| 2015 | Sol3 Mio | Sol3 Mio |
| 2016 | Sol3 Mio | On Another Note |

* While nominees are not normally announced for this category, in 2015 nominees were included. The non-winning nominees for 2015 were: Broods – Evergreen, Devilskin – We Rise, Lorde – Pure Heroine and Six60 – Six60.

## Highest Selling New Zealand Single

| Year | Winner | Album |
| - | - | - |
| 2003 | Katchafire | "Giddy Up" |
| 2004 | Ben Lummis | "They Can't Take That Away" |
| 2005 | Dei Hamo | "We Gon' Ride" |
| 2006 | Rosita Vai | "All I Ask" |
| 2007 | Atlas | "Crawl" |
| 2008 | Opshop | "One Day" |
| 2009 | Smashproof featuring Gin Wigmore | "Brother" |
| 2010 | Stan Walker | "Black Box" |
| 2011 | Brooke Fraser | "Something in the Water" |
| 2012 | Six60 | "Don't Forget Your Roots" |
| 2013 | Flight of the Conchords | "Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)" |
| 2014 | Lorde | "Royals" |
| 2015 | Savage and Timmy Trumpet | "Freaks" |
| 2016 | Six60 | "White Lines" |

* While nominees are not normally announced for this category, in 2015 nominees were included. The non-winning nominees for 2015 were: Broods – "Mother & Father", Lorde – "Yellow Flicker Beat", Six60 – "Special" and Six60 – "So High".
