Another New Zealand Music Month has arrived. At the end of the month I will post the biggest NZ singles and albums based on points from the Official NZ Singles and Albums chart but leading into that, four charts from the past. How I've tabulated these is as follows: I chose a chart and took out anything that wasn't kiwi. The #weeks column represents the number of weeks the song has been in the full chart up to that point but the last week and peak column represents a chart where only kiwi's were listed. Hope you enjoy:
The first chart comes from the NZ Listener chart of 4 september, 1970

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	4	Pinnochio - Maria Dallas	1(2)
2	2	8	Pretty Girl - Hogsnort Rupert's Original Flagon Band	1(5)
3	3	5	Let's Get A Little Sentimental - Craig Scott	3
4	RE	2	Yesterday When I Was Young - Suzanne	4
5	4	10	Wheel Of Fortune - David Curtis	2
6	5	7	What Greater Love - Nash Chase	5
7	6	2	Boom Sha La La La - The In-Betweens	6

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The second special NZ Artist chart for NZ Music Month comes from 30 March, 1980:

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	8	I Got You - Split Enz	1(6)
2	2	5	Don't Let Love Go - Sharon And Jon	2
3	3	4	Day Trip To Bangor - Cathy & the Cucumbers	3
4	5	11	Montego Bay - Jon Stevens	1(4)
5	4	20	Computer Games - Mi-Sex	1(1)
6	6	2	Close To The Bone - Close To Home	6
7	7	19	Jezebel - Jon Stevens	1(8)
8	NEW	1	Tears - The Crocodiles	8

Here's the NZ Album Chart for 10 August, 1980:

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	24	True Colours - Split Enz	1(17)
2	2	11	Space Race - Mi-Sex	1(7)
3	3	47	Graffitti Crimes - Mi-Sex	1(13)
4	RE	4	Morrison Magic - Howard Morrison Quartet	4
5	4	6	Heard The Newz - The Newz	4
6	5	4	Country Giants - Rick Steele	4

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The third week of NZ Music Month sees a couple of charts from 1990.
Here's the singles NZ Artist Chart for 18 February, 1990:

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	2	Welcome To My World - John Grenell	1(1)
2	5	2	Number 1 - Margaret Urlich	2
3	2	17	Escaping - Margaret Urlich	1(11)
4	4	4	Free Ride - When The Cats Away	3
5	3	18	She Has To Be Loved - Jenny Morris	1(4)
6	8	3	Working At The Workshop - Tama	6
7	NEW	1	Something Good - Dianne Swan	7
8	7	5	I See Red - Split Enz	3
9	6	3	Do What I Did/Ten Guitars - Bamboo	6
10	RE	3	Aotearoa - Jenny Morris	4

Here's the NZ Artists Album Chart for 25 February, 1990:

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	22	Piano By Candlelight 2 - Carl Doy	1(13)
2	2	2	Verdi & Puccini Arias - Kiri Te Kanawa	2
3	4	6	History Never repeats - Split Enz	2
4	3	21	Shiver - Jenny Morris	1(7)
5	5	10	Safety In Numbers - Margaret Urlich	1(2)

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For the final week of NZ Music month I have two NZ Artist charts from 2000:

NZ Singles Chart

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	8	Drive - Strawpeople	1(3)
2	5	2	I'm Your MC - DLT feat. Sage & Gravity	2
3	3	13	As Good As It Gets - The Feelers	2
4	2	13	Every Girl - Stellar*	1(6)
5	4	5	You Got The Feeling - Deep Obsession	2
6	NEW	1	Scared Of Flying - Strawpeople	6

NZ Albums Chart

This Week	Last Week	# Weeks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	1	4	Expresso Guirat Two - Martin Winch	1(4)
2	2	4	Piano By Candlelight Entrée - Carl Doy	2
3	3	24	Kiri Maori Songs - Kiri Te Kanawa	1(5)
4	5	6	No New Messages - Strawpeople	2
5	4	5	Sea Breeze Motel - Greg Johnson	1(1)
6	RE	26	The General Electric - Shihad	1(2)
7	6	40	Mix - Stellar	1(20)

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Here's the NZ Music Month chart, based on points:

Singles

Place	Points	No.Wks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	79	24	In The Air - L.A.B.	1(14)
2	77	12	Supalonely - BENEE feat. Gus Dapperton	1(2)
3	70	47	Glitter - BENEE	1(7)
4	70	28	Long Gone - Six60	3(3)
5	64	38	Catching Feelings - DRAX Project feat. Six60	1(11)
6	60	43	The Greatest - Six60	1(6)
7	55	32	Please Don't Go - Six60	1(3)
8	51	32	Raining - Six60	4(4)
9	47	28	Never Enough - Six60	6
10	39	80	Soaked - Bene	1(21)
11	39	133	Woke Up Late - DRAX Project feat. Hailee Steinfeld	1(3)
12	39	26	Sunday Morning - Mitch James	7
13	31	5	My USO (remix) - Stndrd feat. Masi Rooc, Lisi, Biggs 685 and Ron Moala	13
14	26	27	Road Trip - Sons Of Zion	10
15	21	2	Laxed - Siren Beat - Jawsh 685	7
16	18	31	Find An Island - BENEE	6(2)
17	18	27	Sundown - Six60	9
18	18	33	Choose - Stan Walker feat. Hamo Dell	11
19	10	49	All This Time - DRAX Project	1(6)
20	3	12	Relax - DRAX Project	14
21	3	9	For The Love Of Jane - L.A.B.	19
22	2	25	Ghosts - Six60	5

Albums

Place	Points	No. Wks	Title/Artist	Peak
1	77	28	Six60 (3) - Six60	1(26)
2	71	131	Six60 (EP) - Six60	1(66)
3	67	34	DRAX Project - DRAX Project	1(3)
4	63	273	Six60 (2) - Six60	1(21)
5	57	24	L.A.B. III - L.A.B.	2(3)
6	55	246	Six60 - Six60	1(2)
7	48	47	Fire On Marzz (EP) - BENEE	3
8	45	6	RED - Devilskin	1(1)
9	43	181	Moana OST - Various	1(18)
10	38	3	Reb Fountain - Reb Fountain	2
11	36	148	Melodrama - Lorde	1(18)
12	33	88	Mitch James - Mitch James	1(1)
13	29	73	L.A.B. II - L.A.B.	3
14	23	37	Waiata / Anthems - Various	1(4)
15	20	1	Blindspott - Blindspott	1(1)
16	19	25	Stella And Steve (EP) - BENEE	8
17	18	2	LIVE - Avantdale Bowling Club	3
18	17	2	Bliss On Wax - Th' Dudes	4
19	14	1	The Studio Recordings Pt. 2 - Fly My Pretties	7
20	11	100	Vantage Point - Sons Of Zion	2
21	11	11	Out Of My Province - Nadia Reid	2
22	10	1	SYNÆSTHESIA - City Of Souls	11
23	8	1	Recollections, Vol. 1 - Rhian Sheehan	13
24	7	1	Stare Into Death And Be Still - Ulcerate	14
25	5	1	Quotidian - Marlin's Dreaming	16
26	5	1	HE KŌPUTU WAIATA - Ngā Tūmanako	16
27	3	25	Offering - Various	1(11)
28	3	5	Holy Colony Burning Acres - Troy Kingi	11
29	3	1	Greebles (EP) - Ripship	18
30	1	23	Special Edition, Pt. 1 - Fat Freddy's Drop	2

Chart Beat
New Zealand Music Week began in 1997, then extended to a month on 2001. This year L.A.B. scored their first chart topper for NZ Music Month with single In The Air, whilst Six60 continue to dominate with their third long player Six60 (3). This is the second time they topped the special chart with Six60(EP) topping the list in 2018.
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