2004 New Zealand Music Awards

• Scribe – The Crusader
  • Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight
  • Dimmer – You've Got to Hear the Music
  • Goodshirt – Fiji Baby
  • The Phoenix Foundation – Horsepower

• Scribe – "Stand Up"
  • Brooke Fraser – "Lifeline"
  • Dimmer – "Getting What You Give"
  • Goldenhorse – "Maybe Tomorrow"
  • Goodshirt – "Buck It Up"

• Dimmer – You've Got To Hear The Music
  • Elemeno P – Love & Disrespect
  • Goodshirt – Fiji Baby

• Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight
  • Minuit – The 88
  • Adeaze – Always and for Real

• Scribe – The Crusader
  • Greg Johnson – Here Comes the Caviar
  • Nathan Haines – Squire for Hire

• Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight
  • Bic Runga – Live in Concert with the Christchurch Symphony
  • Hayley Westenra – Pure

• Hayley Westenra – Pure

At the time of the awards, Pure had been certified undecuple platinum.^[5]

• Ben Lummis – "They Can't Take That Away"

At the time of the awards, "They Can't Take That Away" had been certified quadruple platinum.^[6]

• Scribe, P-Money, Con Psy and Savage – "Not Many – The Remix!"
  • Greg Johnson – "Save Yourself"
  • Brooke Fraser – "Lifeline"

• Chris Graham – "Stand Up" (Scribe)
  • Gary Sullivan – "Getting What You Give" (Dimmer)
  • Mark Trethewey and Shane Mason – "Fools Love" (Misfits of Science)

• Dimmer – You've Got to Hear the Music
  • Elemeno P – Love & Disrespect
  • Goodshirt – Fiji Baby

• Scribe – The Crusader
  • Mareko – White Sunday
  • King Kapisi – 2nd Round Testament

• Salmonella Dub – One Drop East
  • Concord Dawn – Uprising
• Shapeshifter – Riddim Wise LP

• Ruia – Hawaiki
  • Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunn and Aroha Yates-Smith – Te Hekenga-ā-rangi
  • Whirimako Black – Tangihaku

• Te Vaka – Tutuki
  • Adeaze – Always and for Real
  • The All Stars – Pele Ea

• The Rodger Fox Big Band – A Rare Connection
  • Charmaine Ford – Blues For Guppy
  • The Frank Gibson Quartet – Rainbow Bridge

• John Psathas – Psathas : Fragments
  • New Zealand String Quartet – Szekely /Dvorak
  • NZSO – David Farquhar: Three Symphonies

• Magnify – In Wonder
  • Parachute Band – Glorious
  • Peter Posa – My Pick

• Hayley Westenra

• Scribe
• Brooke Fraser
• Elemeno P
• Steriogram
• Zed
• Goodshirt

• Goldenhorse – "Maybe Tomorrow"

• Shaun Joyce

• P-Money – The Crusader (Scribe)
  • Chris Van De Geer & Andrew McLaren – Passenger (Carly Binding)
  • Murray Fisher – Fiji Baby (Goodshirt)
  • Nic McGowan – The Taming Of The Wasps (Paselode)
  • Paddy Free and Tiki Taane – One Drop East (Salmonella Dub)

• Chris Van De Geer – Passenger – (Carly Binding)
  • Clint Murphy – You Are Here (Opshop)
  • Dr Lee Prebble – Horsepower (The Phoenix Foundation)

• Ben Sciascia – Postage (Supergroove)
  • Kelvin Soh, Simon Oosterdijk and Jay Sandler – You've Got to Hear the Music (Dimmer)
  • Matt Barnes and Aaron McKirdy – Collider (Fur Patrol)
  • Tana Mitchell – Horsepower (The Phoenix Foundation)