2006 New Zealand Music Awards

• Bic Runga – Birds
  • Don McGlashan – Warm Hand
  • Dave Dobbyn – Available Light
  • Concord Dawn – Chaos By Design
  • Elemeno P – Trouble in Paradise

• Pluto – "Long White Cross"
  • Bic Runga – "Winning Arrow"
  • Goldenhorse – "Out of the Moon"
  • Mt Raskil Preservation Society feat. Hollie Smith – "Bathe in the River"
  • The Feelers – "Stand Up"

• Elemeno P – Trouble in Paradise
  • Bleeders - As Sweet As Sin
  • Fly My Pretties – The Return of Fly My Pretties

• Dave Dobbyn – Available Light
  • Don McGlashan - Warm Hand
  • Che Fu – Beneath The Radar

• Bic Runga – Birds
  • Aaradhna – I Love You
  • Anika Moa – Stolen Hill

• Bleeders – As Sweet As Sin
  • Aaradhna – I Love You
  • Frontline – Borrowed Time

Fat Freddy's Drop – Based on a True Story

Rosita Vai – "All I Ask"

The Feelers – "Stand Up"

• Bleeders – As Sweet As Sin
  • Blindspott – End The Silence
  • Elemeno P – Trouble in Paradise

• Frontline – Borrowed Time
  • Nesian Mystik – Fresh Men
  • Opensouls – Kaleidoscope

• Concord Dawn – Chaos By Design
  • Recloose – Hiatus on the Horizon
  • Sola Rosa – Moves On

• Fly My Pretties – The Return of Fly My Pretties
  • Anika Moa – Stolen Hill
  • Rhombus – Future Reference

• Mark Williams – "Wandering Eye" (Fat Freddy'S Drop)
  • Alyx Duncan -"Fuji" (Minuit)
  • Adam Jones – "Long White Cross" (Pluto)

• Fat Freddy's Drop
  • Pluto
  • Frontline
  • Elemeno P
  • Bic Runga
  • Goodnight Nurse

• Bic Runga – Birds
  • Don McGlashan, Sean Donnelly, Ed McWilliams – Warm Hand (Don McGlashan)
  • David Holmes & Paul McLaney – Like Stray Voltage (Gramsci)

• Andre Upston – Birds (Bic Runga)
  • Andrew Spraggon / Angus McNaughton – Moves On (Sola Rosa)
  • Lee Prebble – The Return of Fly My Pretties (Fly My Pretties)

• Chris Knox – As Sweet As Sin (Bleeders)
  • Joe Garlick – The Return of Fly My Pretties (Fly My Pretties)
  • Stephen Tolfrey – End The Silence (Blindspott)

• Tower Voices New Zealand – Spirit of the Land
  • Bridget Douglas and Rachel Thomson – Taurangi
  • The New Zealand Trio – Spark

• Te Reotakiwa Dunn – Te Reotakiwa Dunn
  • Mahara Tocker – Hurricane's Eye
  • Rodger Cunningham – Toto

• Juliagrace – Juliagrace
  • Mumsdollar – A Beautiful Life
  • Shooting Stars – Over The Water

• Shane Warner – Absolutely
  • Jacqui Watson -Uncut
  • Ron Mitchell – Low Down Country

• Mt Vaea Band – Mama
  • JXN & LavaBoyKila – First off the Plane
  • Annie Puletiuatoa – Childhood

• Lorina Harding – Clean Break
  • Chris Priestley – Uncovered: A Collection Of New Zealand Folk Songs
  • Sean Kelly & Friends – See The Light

• The Vaughn Roberts Big Band – Grrreat Stufff!
  • Colin Hemmingsen – The Rite of Swing
  • Paul Dyne – Shelter of the Ti Tree

David Innes