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The Pacific Music Awards Trust is dedicated to celebrating Pacific music and honouring our Pacific artists, with the annual Pacific Music Awards. The Pacific Music Awards Trust are proud to have reached the 21st anniversary and look forward to this year’s celebration and awards ceremony, which will be held on Thursday 21 August, at the Due Drop Events Centre, Manukau, Auckland.

Entries for the 2025 Pacific Music Awards are now open and our Trust is encouraging all our Pacific artists who released music in 2024, to submit nominations. All entries need to be submitted online through the official entry system here, with the deadline for entries being Tuesday 15 April 2025 at 5PM.

Local Pacific artists, i.e. New Zealand citizens/residents, can be nominated for all the entered award categories except for the Best International Pacific Artist Award, which is open to Pacific artists from overseas. The recordings eligible for entry, can be singles, EPs or albums that have been released during the 2024 calendar year, i.e. between 1 January – 31 December 2024.

For all the information about nominations for the 2025 Pacific Music Awards, including the 2025 PMA Terms & Conditions of Entry, please go to the Entries page on the awards website here. The entered categories for the 2025 Pacific Music Awards are confirmed as follows:

Best Pacific Female Artist, Best Pacific Male Artist, Best Pacific Group, Best Pacific Gospel Artist. Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist, Best Pacific Soul/RnB Artist, Best Pacific Roots/ Reggae Artist, Best Pacific Language, Best Pacific Song, Best Pacific Music Video, Best Producer, Best International Pacific Artist and Best Pacific Music Album (Aotearoa Music Award).

We are grateful for the opportunities and connections music provides us all. We are looking forward to the time ahead as we prepare for the upcoming awards. We hope you can share the collective celebration of Pacific music at the 2025 Pacific Music Awards, on Thursday 21 August.

For any questions about the Pacific Music Awards or the nomination process for entries, please contact the Trust on: pacificmusicawardstrust@gmail.com

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In 2004 the Pacific Music Awards Committee (PMAC) was formed to realise a vision and the inaugural Pacific Music Awards debuted at Pasifika Festival in March 2005. Encouraged by the success of the awards the PMAC set about developing an annual event as a significant highlight of the New Zealand music industry calendar. The awards committee formed a Charitable Trust to organise and host the awards, and are driven by a simple core objective: to create and manage an event that acknowledges the success of Pacific artists, celebrates and promotes excellence in Pacific music and encourages young Pacific musicians to aspire to a higher level of achievement.