2005 New Zealand Music Awards

• Fat Freddy's Drop – Based on a True Story
  • Breaks Co-Op – The Sound Inside
  • Finn Brothers – Everyone Is Here
  • Shihad – Love Is The New Hate
  • The Phoenix Foundation – Pegasus

• Breaks Co-Op – "The Otherside"
  • Brooke Fraser – "Arithmetic"
  • Dave Dobbyn – "Welcome Home"
  • Finn Brothers – "Won't Give In"
  • P-Money – "Stop The Music"

• Fat Freddy's Drop – Based on a True Story
  • Goldenhorse – Out of the Moon
  • Shihad – Love Is The New Hate

• P-Money – Magic City
  • Savage – Moonshine
  • SJD – Southern Lights

• Yulia – Into the West
  • Debbie Harwood – Soothe Me
  • Jordan Reyne – Passenger

• The Checks – What You Heard
  • Dei Hamo – First Edition
  • Tha Feelstyle – Break It to Pieces

• Yulia – Into the West

• Dei Hamo – We Gon Ride

• Dave Dobbyn – "Welcome Home"
  • Andy Lovegrove, Zane Lowe & Hamish Clark – "The Other Side" (Breaks Co-Op)
  • Brooke Fraser – "Arithmetic"

• Shihad – Love is the New Hate
  • Pluto – Pipeline Under The Ocean
  • The D4 – Out of My Head

• P-Money – Magic City
  • Savage – Moonshine
  • Tha Feelstyle – Break It To Pieces

• Del Rey System – Del Rey System
  • Audiosauce – Contimental Drift
  • Baitercell & Schumacher – The Wall of Bass Technique
  • Mark de Clive-Lowe – Tide's Arising

• Fat Freddy's Drop – Based on a True Story
  • Katchafire – Slow Burning
  • TrinityRoots – Home, Land & Sea

• Chris Graham & Dei Hamo – "We Gon Ride"
  • Greg Page & P-Money – "Stop The Music"
  • Reuben Sutherland & The Phoenix Foundation – "Hitchcock"

• Fat Freddy's Drop – Based on a True Story
  • P-Money
  • Savage
  • Shihad
  • the feelers

• Angus Mcnaughton & Sean Donnelly – Southern Lights (SJD)
  • Lee Prebble – Pegasus (The Phoenix Foundation)
  • Nick Abbott, Luke Tomes & Pluto – Pipeline Under The Ocean (Pluto)

• Angus Mcnaughton – Southern Lights (SJD)
  • Doug Jane – Into The West (Yulia)
  • Nick Abbott & Luke Tomes – Pipeline Under The Ocean (Pluto)

• K. Futialo, A. Morton, G. Osborne & A. B. White – Break It To Pieces (Tha Feelstyle)
  • Chris Brunskill – Slow Burning (Katchafire)
  • Tana Mitchell – Contimental Drift (Audiosauce)

• Dan Poynton – The Complete Piano Music of Douglas Lilburn, Volume 1
• Best Classical Album: Jonathan Lemalu – Opera Arias
  • Tower New Zealand Youth Choir – Gaude/Rejoice

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• Kylie Harris – Kylie Harris
  • Noel Burns – Special To Me
  • Pat Hannah – Moods & Memories

• Bob McNeill – Turn The Diesels
  • John Sutherland – Mealmarket St
  • Hinemoana Baker – puawai

• Ardijah – Journey
  • Aniseto Falemoe – Afe O Maila Ole Alofa
  • Ephraim – Moemoea o Avaiki

• The Kevin Clark Trio Live with Guest Artists – The Sandbar Sessions
  • Dan Papirany Trio – Session One
  • Julie Mason Quintet – Estate (Summer)

• Evermore
• Scribe
• Finn Brothers – Everyone Is Here

• Camille Guzzwell, David Ridler