The 2017 New Zealand Music Awards was the 52nd holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical recording artists based in or originating from New Zealand.
It took place on 16 November 2017 at Spark Arena in Auckland and it was hosted by Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce.
[1][2] Nominations for the 2017 New Zealand Music Awards opened on 21 June 2017, and cover artists who have had commercial recordings released between 1 August 2016 and 31 July 2017.
Nominations closed on 2 August 2017, and the nominees were announced on 5 October.
A number of changes have been made to the award categories for 2017:[8] Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.