Finalists Announced for the 2014 Silver Scroll Awards

The top 20 New Zealand songs in line for the country’s most prestigious songwriting accolade have been announced.

The APRA Silver Scroll Award celebrates the creative excellence of music released in the past year. Previous winners include Lorde with 'Royals’, Lips with ‘Everything to Me', and The Naked and Famous with ‘Young Blood’.

A panel of APRA writer members selected this year’s 20 finalists from a long list, and now it’s over to the country’s 10,000 plus songwriters in the APRA community to whittle it down to the final five and determine the overall winner.

The 2014 APRA Silver Scroll Awards will be held at Wellington’s TSB Arena on Thursday 30 October. Alongside the Silver Scroll, awards presented will include the APRA Maioha Award for contemporary Maori Music, the SOUNZ Contemporary Award for contemporary Classical Music, the Most Performed Work in New Zealand and Overseas, as well as two new awards – the APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award and the APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award. The night will also include an induction into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.

This year’s top 20 songs are:

- '10,000 Things' performed by School for Birds

- 'Back On My Feet' performed by Louis Baker

- 'Bob Lennon, John Dylan' performed by The Phoenix Foundation

- 'Bridges' performed by Broods

- 'Celeste' performed by Ezra Vine

- 'Cry If You Want To' performed by Mulholland

- 'Duckies Lament' performed by Jonathan Bree

- 'Glare' performed by Sheep, Dog & Wolf

- 'Good Keen Man' performed by Lake South

- 'Gravity' performed by @peace

- 'Her Heart Breaks Like A Wave' performed by Dictaphone Blues

- 'I'm The Man That Will Find You' performed by Connan Mockasin

- 'Levels' performed by She's So Rad

- 'Make You Mine' performed by Anna Coddington

- 'Me At The Museum, You In The Wintergardens' performed by Tiny Ruins

- 'Runnin' performed by David Dallas

- 'Simplicity' performed by Mark Vanilau

- 'Speakers Blown' performed by Sid Diamond

- 'Sunshine On The Water' performed by Tama Waipara

- 'Walk (Back To Your Arms)' performed by Tami Neilson