May 27, 2025 • 9 mins
For the final Wellington Mornings' Music Time of New Zealand Music Month, Nick and James unofficially declare it to be NZ music year, reveal the slowest album ever to get to number 1 in the official NZ music charts and talk gigs and record fairs coming up in Wellington.
Also James reveals the gold cup holder of the most NZ number 1 singles ever!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said b Higgs new releases and keeping
tabs on local honors his music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right o, James E. It's been a hell of a month.
You've become world famous. You're getting stories and media reports
over the country of what you do on Wellington Mornings. Well,
I reckon superstar.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm gonna make it officially, unofficially official. It's now New
Zealand Music Year on Nick Mills Wellington Mornings. How's that sound.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I don't have to put my name in it, James, So.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're going to do that. I'm going to have something
in New Zealand every single time till the end of
the year. And if I don't call me out audience, okay,
I love yeah, same same. I had a big record
collection and clean out the other week. I've got over
a thousand records of New Zealand band so I never
can out. Yeah, it's crazy. Some I can probably get
rid of the Actually I could go this weekend to
al Trow's biggest annual record Fear. He's an ad this
(01:06):
is thinking this for free. It's now even bigger Sunday. First,
the June King's Birthday weekend. That's this weekend ten to four.
Get into brew Town. Old mate Phil will be running
around saying, come and have a beer at this great bar.
There's some great bars out there. So go to the record.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Foreir this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm going to go there. Ethan's going to go there.
There's there's gonna be LP CDs, tapes, final post posters,
t shirts, records, everything. I love those sort of things.
The biggest record fair in New Zealand, Brewtown this weekend. There,
that's one thousand dollars for free for those guys berating myself.
I had a great week. I've had a great week.
I went to the analog at the National Library. Listened
(01:43):
to a guy. It was like going to a book club.
Listen to a guy called Jeff Stahle. I talked about
it last week and we sat around and we listened
to a New Zealand record and we all scratched our
chins and we enjoyed it, and I felt like I
was at a book club, but it was for music
lovers and well done. National Library. That was really good fun.
I went to that last week. Shout out. I'm giving
a few thank you shout out to the team at
audio Culture, who are the noisy library of New Zealand,
(02:06):
the digit archives of everything great about New Zealand music
and culture, and a big thanks. There's a woman called
Renee from audio Culture and she sends me links to
great stuff that she thinks our listeners will like. She's
always sending tips, articles, band alerts, all sorts of stuff.
Audio Culture is the treasure trove of New Zealand music
history and culture. And like a bigandvert, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Can you get onto?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
All right? What else have we got? Giggle? This one's
for our more adventurous listeners. Swallow the rat. Yeah you're
not going to you're not going to that a post
punk band nationwide tour Saturday, Dune the seventh, That Moon
and Wellington. That's me local. I'll be there. And yes,
I recycle because I live in the I live in
one of those woke suburbs, new Town.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I bet you don't recycle, you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm totally recycle. And yeah I don't recycle the records.
All right, let's enroll in some music.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, he's wearing a hat
that says one hundred percent dirty?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
How can you wear that in the corporate was so terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's nineteen ninety seven from the Official fifty Years of
New Zealand Music Charts. So all black, Jordi Barrett's born.
Mark Blumsky was me? How was he was any?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Good? Nick?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He was? He was?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I always quite like Mark. He was always smiling around
the town, New Zealand, population three point eight million. And
if you're digging deep in your pockets and you find
two dollars fifty, you could buy yourself a big Mac.
And this lady, let's hit it. Big Runger makes history
with the first ever number one album by a Kiley
female artist. And if you're yelling at your radio and
saying no, it was Erlich, Margaret Erlich, No, she got
(03:35):
the first single. When we talked about that last week,
didn't we we did? This is the first album by
New Zealand female artist that went number one?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What about Sharon?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
This is colored scar? I do like, don't get me
in trouble. I'm sure that's correct.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm just sharing.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's from the official charts. All right, let's move on,
because I know we were running on time. Today we're
running on New Zealand. So I got that. I went
straight to Recorded Music New Zealand and I wanted to
get the official chart action. We have had eighty four
number one singles since nineteen seventy five New Zealand singles.
We have had one hundred and forty number one New
(04:16):
Zealand albums album since nineteen seventy five. Lord holds the
most number one singles by a Kiwi, which is five
and she got her most recent one with Marlon Williams
just recently. And six sixty hold the most Top forty
singles twenty eight and the most weeks on the Top forty.
They've had over six hundred weeks in the top forty
(04:37):
New Zealand official charts. So there you go. Now we're
rolling through to two thousand and four. I'm gonna get
a note from Robb about this. I'm going so fasty
he'll give me detailed notes later on. Today smoking is
banned in the smoker rooms, Petrol is a dollar sixteen
a leader. Small companies called Facebook and Gmail launch and
(04:57):
New Zealand is punished with a New Zealand Idle winner.
Singer Ben Lammas, I remember Ben good looking guy. I'm
not sure about the singing Ben Lomers, Ben Lummas.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Isn't he from Levin or somewhere around here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I think he's probably I think he might have been potty.
Uh sorry, Ben, No, I think he's I think he's
all right. Who else? Golden Horse h's number one with Riverhead.
It was the slowest ever climb into number one for
the album fifty five weeks and two thousand and four
was one of New Zealand's most successful years of New
Zealand music. We had twenty eight weeks of local number ones.
(05:34):
Here's one of them. A D's featuring Aranda Ardanda Radna.
I always get that wrong, that one.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I loved games, I love Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I meant great article on the weekend on hers and
she's done a the new album.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that's gonna be great, all right?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I act she would try and get her on the show.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, get her on the show. Hey, another person you
should get on the show this weekend. Jordan Luck band
is playing at the San fran Jordan Lucky'd be good fun.
Get the producer to get him on the radio. He
wouldn't do anything inappropriate on the radio.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
He would hardly speak.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Hey New Zealand Music. Yeah, he's great and he'll fill
it out. Sand Fan will be full Friday night. New
Zealand Music T Shirt Day is this Friday. We're your
favorite band T shirt support? Nichole's gonna ask you, what
would be your T shirt? I've got so many. My
wife has embarrassed that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Music.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'd have a John John stevens Ethan what would yours be?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
My six?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
My six? Nice? All right?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
My sex didn't do any T shirts today.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Probably they probably be hap to wear my sex T
shirt now of Cuba Street. If you're having a coffee.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Times on radio, you know, Steve Gilpin was one of
the nicest men that ever always heard that nicest men
you'd ever ever meet.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There, you Steve, how we going? We nearly We're nearly
out of time. So the fundraising for New Zealand Music
T Shirt Day on Friday. Money goes to Music Helps,
which supports music therapy, education, pallette of careful musicians, all sorts.
You can donate by going to New Zealand No in
zed Music T Shirt Day dot all got in here
that do donate button? It's awesome, all right, Next lot,
(07:12):
let's hit some Music Ethan two thousand and five Tikitan
fifty five weeks on the charts, one of New Zealand's
longest songs in the charts, not number one for fifty
five weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I love him too, He's great.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, great, here's we were going to claim the assies.
This is an Aussie release, but it was Kimbra from
Hamilton with Gotti A Yeah, fantastic, huge in America. I
don't think it went number one, but it got very close.
And then twenty thirteen, Lord, first of her number ones,
(07:48):
goes global. Whether you like her or not, I think
you're fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I've grown to love same, I love I didn't like
her at first, but Iron, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, she's so cool.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is going to grow up as noted us.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No you cannot I like Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, we're Lord fancy here.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah you cannot not like Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So there you go. Can we we got time? No?
We probably haven't. But twenty twenty five petrol's too expensive.
We're not sure who the mirrors of Wellington anymore? And
maybe it's finally the year for the wars and this
little champion. Let's hit it. Marlon Williams and Lord this
album debuts at number one. Tefardry Tear Wekaweker first fully
(08:29):
trio Maori original album in the top forty.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What a month of music, What a month of music?
Well done, buddy, appreciate you. What a month, Thank you,
cheery music month? And how to finish it like that?
Good old Lord for doing that's Martin Williams. I mean,
he's just beautiful, divine, divine human barry of us. Yeah,
you're right, hey, Jamesie, thank you very very much. You've
done a wonderful job. You've informed our listeners and kept
(08:55):
us up to date of the history of number ones.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Fabulous, love your work.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have a week off next week, catch you the week after,
all right, and keep us up to date.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks It'd Be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said b Higgs new releases and keeping
tabs on local honors his music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right o, James E. It's been a hell of a month.
You've become world famous. You're getting stories and media reports
over the country of what you do on Wellington Mornings. Well,
I reckon superstar.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm gonna make it officially, unofficially official. It's now New
Zealand Music Year on Nick Mills Wellington Mornings. How's that sound.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I don't have to put my name in it, James, So.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're going to do that. I'm going to have something
in New Zealand every single time till the end of
the year. And if I don't call me out audience, okay,
I love yeah, same same. I had a big record
collection and clean out the other week. I've got over
a thousand records of New Zealand band so I never
can out. Yeah, it's crazy. Some I can probably get
rid of the Actually I could go this weekend to
al Trow's biggest annual record Fear. He's an ad this
(01:06):
is thinking this for free. It's now even bigger Sunday. First,
the June King's Birthday weekend. That's this weekend ten to four.
Get into brew Town. Old mate Phil will be running
around saying, come and have a beer at this great bar.
There's some great bars out there. So go to the record.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Foreir this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm going to go there. Ethan's going to go there.
There's there's gonna be LP CDs, tapes, final post posters,
t shirts, records, everything. I love those sort of things.
The biggest record fair in New Zealand, Brewtown this weekend. There,
that's one thousand dollars for free for those guys berating myself.
I had a great week. I've had a great week.
I went to the analog at the National Library. Listened
(01:43):
to a guy. It was like going to a book club.
Listen to a guy called Jeff Stahle. I talked about
it last week and we sat around and we listened
to a New Zealand record and we all scratched our
chins and we enjoyed it, and I felt like I
was at a book club, but it was for music
lovers and well done. National Library. That was really good fun.
I went to that last week. Shout out. I'm giving
a few thank you shout out to the team at
audio Culture, who are the noisy library of New Zealand,
(02:06):
the digit archives of everything great about New Zealand music
and culture, and a big thanks. There's a woman called
Renee from audio Culture and she sends me links to
great stuff that she thinks our listeners will like. She's
always sending tips, articles, band alerts, all sorts of stuff.
Audio Culture is the treasure trove of New Zealand music
history and culture. And like a bigandvert, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Can you get onto?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
All right? What else have we got? Giggle? This one's
for our more adventurous listeners. Swallow the rat. Yeah you're
not going to you're not going to that a post
punk band nationwide tour Saturday, Dune the seventh, That Moon
and Wellington. That's me local. I'll be there. And yes,
I recycle because I live in the I live in
one of those woke suburbs, new Town.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I bet you don't recycle, you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm totally recycle. And yeah I don't recycle the records.
All right, let's enroll in some music.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, he's wearing a hat
that says one hundred percent dirty?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
How can you wear that in the corporate was so terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's nineteen ninety seven from the Official fifty Years of
New Zealand Music Charts. So all black, Jordi Barrett's born.
Mark Blumsky was me? How was he was any?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Good? Nick?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He was? He was?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I always quite like Mark. He was always smiling around
the town, New Zealand, population three point eight million. And
if you're digging deep in your pockets and you find
two dollars fifty, you could buy yourself a big Mac.
And this lady, let's hit it. Big Runger makes history
with the first ever number one album by a Kiley
female artist. And if you're yelling at your radio and
saying no, it was Erlich, Margaret Erlich, No, she got
(03:35):
the first single. When we talked about that last week,
didn't we we did? This is the first album by
New Zealand female artist that went number one?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What about Sharon?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
This is colored scar? I do like, don't get me
in trouble. I'm sure that's correct.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm just sharing.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's from the official charts. All right, let's move on,
because I know we were running on time. Today we're
running on New Zealand. So I got that. I went
straight to Recorded Music New Zealand and I wanted to
get the official chart action. We have had eighty four
number one singles since nineteen seventy five New Zealand singles.
We have had one hundred and forty number one New
(04:16):
Zealand albums album since nineteen seventy five. Lord holds the
most number one singles by a Kiwi, which is five
and she got her most recent one with Marlon Williams
just recently. And six sixty hold the most Top forty
singles twenty eight and the most weeks on the Top forty.
They've had over six hundred weeks in the top forty
(04:37):
New Zealand official charts. So there you go. Now we're
rolling through to two thousand and four. I'm gonna get
a note from Robb about this. I'm going so fasty
he'll give me detailed notes later on. Today smoking is
banned in the smoker rooms, Petrol is a dollar sixteen
a leader. Small companies called Facebook and Gmail launch and
(04:57):
New Zealand is punished with a New Zealand Idle winner.
Singer Ben Lammas, I remember Ben good looking guy. I'm
not sure about the singing Ben Lomers, Ben Lummas.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Isn't he from Levin or somewhere around here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I think he's probably I think he might have been potty.
Uh sorry, Ben, No, I think he's I think he's
all right. Who else? Golden Horse h's number one with Riverhead.
It was the slowest ever climb into number one for
the album fifty five weeks and two thousand and four
was one of New Zealand's most successful years of New
Zealand music. We had twenty eight weeks of local number ones.
(05:34):
Here's one of them. A D's featuring Aranda Ardanda Radna.
I always get that wrong, that one.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I loved games, I love Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I meant great article on the weekend on hers and
she's done a the new album.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that's gonna be great, all right?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I act she would try and get her on the show.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, get her on the show. Hey, another person you
should get on the show this weekend. Jordan Luck band
is playing at the San fran Jordan Lucky'd be good fun.
Get the producer to get him on the radio. He
wouldn't do anything inappropriate on the radio.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
He would hardly speak.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Hey New Zealand Music. Yeah, he's great and he'll fill
it out. Sand Fan will be full Friday night. New
Zealand Music T Shirt Day is this Friday. We're your
favorite band T shirt support? Nichole's gonna ask you, what
would be your T shirt? I've got so many. My
wife has embarrassed that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Music.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'd have a John John stevens Ethan what would yours be?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
My six?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
My six? Nice? All right?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
My sex didn't do any T shirts today.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Probably they probably be hap to wear my sex T
shirt now of Cuba Street. If you're having a coffee.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Times on radio, you know, Steve Gilpin was one of
the nicest men that ever always heard that nicest men
you'd ever ever meet.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There, you Steve, how we going? We nearly We're nearly
out of time. So the fundraising for New Zealand Music
T Shirt Day on Friday. Money goes to Music Helps,
which supports music therapy, education, pallette of careful musicians, all sorts.
You can donate by going to New Zealand No in
zed Music T Shirt Day dot all got in here
that do donate button? It's awesome, all right, Next lot,
(07:12):
let's hit some Music Ethan two thousand and five Tikitan
fifty five weeks on the charts, one of New Zealand's
longest songs in the charts, not number one for fifty
five weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I love him too, He's great.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, great, here's we were going to claim the assies.
This is an Aussie release, but it was Kimbra from
Hamilton with Gotti A Yeah, fantastic, huge in America. I
don't think it went number one, but it got very close.
And then twenty thirteen, Lord, first of her number ones,
(07:48):
goes global. Whether you like her or not, I think
you're fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I've grown to love same, I love I didn't like
her at first, but Iron, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, she's so cool.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is going to grow up as noted us.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No you cannot I like Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, we're Lord fancy here.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah you cannot not like Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So there you go. Can we we got time? No?
We probably haven't. But twenty twenty five petrol's too expensive.
We're not sure who the mirrors of Wellington anymore? And
maybe it's finally the year for the wars and this
little champion. Let's hit it. Marlon Williams and Lord this
album debuts at number one. Tefardry Tear Wekaweker first fully
(08:29):
trio Maori original album in the top forty.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What a month of music, What a month of music?
Well done, buddy, appreciate you. What a month, Thank you,
cheery music month? And how to finish it like that?
Good old Lord for doing that's Martin Williams. I mean,
he's just beautiful, divine, divine human barry of us. Yeah,
you're right, hey, Jamesie, thank you very very much. You've
done a wonderful job. You've informed our listeners and kept
(08:55):
us up to date of the history of number ones.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Fabulous, love your work.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have a week off next week, catch you the week after,
all right, and keep us up to date.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks It'd Be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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