Overseas voters also opted for a different top tune. The emotional and bittersweet ballad \u2018Don\u2019t Dream It\u2019s Over\u2019 by Crowded House took pole position for expat New Zealanders who are perhaps cultivating resilience in the face of homesickness.<\/p>\n
How the cities and regions voted<\/p>\n
Perhaps unsurprisingly, urban Auckland is full of hip-hop and R&B heads. <\/p>\n
Songs by DLT, Che Fu, Ardijah, Adeaze and Scribe all ranked higher than in the national tally. However, the biggest mover was King Kapisi\u2019s \u2018Screems From Tha Old Plantation,\u2019 which came in at No 47 in Auckland, 43 places higher than the slot it filled on the national tally.<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s metal artists, such as Devilskin and Alien Weaponry, did better outside of New Zealand\u2019s cities. <\/p>\n
For example, Devilskin\u2019s \u2018Start A Revolution\u2019 came in at No 34 for the Waikato and No 15 for Bay of Plenty voters. The 2014 song came in at No 122 for national voters.<\/p>\n
Reggae and dub, a sub-genre of reggae, did well in the warmer climates of Northland and the Gisborne region. <\/p>\n
L.A.B\u2019s \u2018In the Air\u2019 sits at No 21 for Northland, up 60 places from the national tally. Herbs, 1814, the Black Seeds and TrinityRoots all have songs that sit higher than their national position.<\/p>\n
Across the country, some of our biggest artists benefited from local love. <\/p>\n
Stan Walker\u2019s \u2018Aotearoa\u2019 and \u2018M\u0101ori Ki Te Ao\u2019 both jumped into the top 50 in the Bay of Plenty, where he was raised. <\/p>\n
\u2018Tally Ho!\u2019 by The Clean, an indie-rock band from Dunedin, jumped 80 places to No 42 for deep south voters. The Chills and Straitjacket Fits, who also have Dunedin roots, were well-loved in the region. <\/p>\n
The Phoenix Foundation cracked the top 50 in their home of Wellington, a jump of 54 spots from the national tally.<\/p>\n
Songs with place names proved to be local anthems in some cases, with \u2018Parihaka\u2019 by Tim Finn and the Herbs coming in at No 23 for Taranaki voters. <\/p>\n
However, the 1984 song didn\u2019t break the top 100 in the national votes. <\/p>\n
\u2018Victoria\u2019 by Dance Exponents cracked the top 20 in Wellington, and \u2018April Sun in Cuba\u2019 by Dragon climbed five places with overseas voters (although we cannot confirm how many New Zealanders voted from Cuba).<\/p>\n
How the generations voted<\/p>\n
The 18 to 25-year-old category, made entirely of Gen Z voters, leaned heavily towards female artists from the 2000s onwards. Lorde, The Beths, Devilskin, Goldenhorse and Ladyhawke all jumped dozens of places for that age group compared to the national tally. <\/p>\n
Lorde\u2019s \u2018Ribs\u2019 came out ahead of her breakthrough song \u2018Royals\u2019 for Gen Z. BENEE also did well among Gen Z voters with three of her songs \u2013 \u2018Glitter,\u2019 \u2018Supalonely\u2019 and \u2018Soaked\u2019 \u2013 breaking into the top 50.<\/p>\n
\u2018Poi E\u2019 did well across all age groups, coming in at No 1 for Gen Z and those aged 45-54, which is part of Gen X. <\/p>\n
However, those aged 25 to 34 (so older Gen Z and younger Millennials) crowned \u2018Sway\u2019 by Bic Runga with their No 1 spot. <\/p>\n
Older millennials went with \u2018Slice of Heaven\u2019 by Dave Dobbyn and the Herbs. The 55 to 64-year-olds, made up of older Gen Xers and younger baby boomers, opted for indie rock song \u2018Not Given Lightly\u2019 by Chris Knox as their favourite.<\/p>\n
Across the genres<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not surprising that self-declared metalhead voters went with metal and hard rock artists. Blindspott, Shihad, and Devilskin all did well with this group. Metal fans showed some love to bands that landed outside the national top 100, with Wellington\u2019s Beastwars nabbing spot 34 with \u2018Damn the Sky\u2019. \u2018Comfortably Shagged\u2019 by Head Like a Hole came in at 38 and the Datsuns took spot 50 with \u2018Harmonic Generator\u2019.<\/p>\n
Punk and avant garde\/experimental music fans leaned heavily towards the Dunedin Sound, the music movement of the 1980s that came out of the region. For example, \u2018Not Given Lightly\u2019 by Chris Knox came in at No 1 for punk fans and \u2018Pink Frost\u2019 by the Chills for the experimenters. <\/p>\n
Aldous Harding, the Mint Chicks, Headless Chickens and Straitjacket Fits also did well for fans of this genre.<\/p>\n
Waiata M\u0101ori followers added a few fresh faces to their top 50, including Hirini Melbourne\u2019s \u2018Purea Nui,\u2019 35 by Ka Hao and \u2018Blue Eyed M\u0101ori\u2019 by Corrella. Waiata Anthem, a music project where artists sing and re-record popular songs in te reo M\u0101ori, did well with versions of existing songs.<\/p>\n
The hip-hop heads put \u2018Poi E\u2019 on top. After all, the music video features breakdancing on a waka. Other favourites for fans of this genre were \u2018Not Many\u2019 by Scribe, \u2018Misty Frequencies\u2019 from Che Fu and \u2018Chains\u2019 by DLT featuring Che Fu.<\/p>\n
The first fully New Zealand-recorded song, \u2018Blue Smoke,\u2019 rose to No 24 for classical fans. Blues and country voters also gave the 1949 release some love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overseas voters also opted for a different top tune. The emotional and bittersweet ballad \u2018Don\u2019t Dream It\u2019s Over\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53396,3548,2841,50420,111,43,139,69,5270,53478,381,4514,223,94437,14036],"class_list":["post-523121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-53396","tag-3548","tag-country","tag-except","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-picked","tag-region","tag-same","tag-the","tag-waiata","tag-whole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}