2015 APRA Silver Scroll Awards
The 2015 APRA Silver Scroll Awards was held on Thursday 17 September 2015 at Vector Arena in Auckland, celebrating excellence in New Zealand songwriting. The 2015 ceremony marked the 50th presentation of the Silver Scroll award. As well as honouring the best songwriting of 2015, the awards retrospectively awarded the best song of 1981 as previously no award was presented in that year.
Silver Scroll award
The Silver Scroll award celebrates outstanding achievement in songwriting of original New Zealand pop music. The short list of finalists was announced on 20 September.| Songwriter | Act | Song | Covering artist |
| Anthonie Tonnon | Anthonie Tonnon | "Water Underground" | MC Tali |
| Ella Yelich-O'Connor/Joel Little | Lorde | "Yellow Flicker Beat" | Mark de Clive-Lowe and Ria Hall |
| Marlon Williams/Tim Moore | Marlon Williams | "Dark Child" | Fazerdaze |
| Mel Parsons | Mel Parsons | "Get Out Alive" | Ester Stephens and the Means |
| Ruban Nielson/Kody Nielson | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | "Multi-Love" | Warren Maxwell, Thomas Oliver and Louis Baker |
Long list
In July 2015 a top 20 long list was announced. From this list APRA members voted to decide the five songs that make up the year's short list.- Dave Rowlands/Stephen Heard/Andrew Moller "Back In To Your Life"
- Nadia Reid "Call The Days"
- Ruban Nielson/Jacob Portrait "Can't Keep Checking My Phone"
- Thomas Stoneman/Josh Fountain "Collarbones"
- Anji Sami "Cool It"
- Marlon Williams/Tim Moore "Dark Child"
- Joel Little/Jarryd James "Do You Remember"
- Mel Parsons "Get Out Alive"
- Toni Randle Keegan "Just In Case Allelujah"
- Joel Little/Georgia Nott/Caleb Nott "L.A.F."
- Sean Donnelly "Little Pieces"
- Ruban Nielson/Kody Nielson "Multi-Love"
- Martin Andrews "Naomi"
- Jolyon Mulholland "Perfect Health"
- Marlon Gerbes/Matiu Walters/Priese Board "Special"
- Evan Sinton/Jaden Parkes/Josh Fountain "Touch"
- Sean Donnelly "Unplugged"
- Anthonie Tonnon "Water Underground"
- Bill Urale/James Britt "Welcome Back"
- Ella Yelich-O'Connor/ Joel Little "Yellow Flicker Beat"
Silver Scroll 1981
| Songwriter | Act | Song |
| Phil Judd/Wayne Stevens/Mark Hough | The Swingers | "Counting The Beat" |
| Don McGlashan/Richard von Sturmer | Blam Blam Blam | "There is No Depression in New Zealand" |
| Neil Finn | Split Enz | "One Step Ahead" |
| Michael O'Neill/Peter van der Fluit/Lawrence Landwer-Johan/Tony Drumm | Screaming Meemees | "See Me Go" |
| Robert Scott/David Kilgour/Hamish Kilgour | The Clean | "Tally Ho" |
New Zealand Music Hall of Fame
Steel guitar player Bill Sevesi was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame as APRA New Zealand's 2015 inductee.Other awards
Six other awards were presented at the Silver Scroll Awards: APRA Maioha Award, SOUNZ Contemporary Award, two awards acknowledging songs with the most radio and television play in New Zealand and overseas, and APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award and APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award.APRA song awards
Outside of the Silver Scroll Awards, APRA presented five genre awards in 2015. The APRA Best Pacific Song was presented at the Pacific Music Awards, the APRA Best Country Music Song was presented at the New Zealand Country Music Awards, the APRA Best Māori Songwriter was presented at the Waiata Maori Music Awards and the APRA Children's Song of the Year and What Now Video of the Year were presented live on What Now.| Award | Songwriter | Act | Song |
| APRA Best Pacific Song | Smashproof | “Survivors" | |
| APRA Best Country Music Song | Kaylee Bell & Jared Porter | Kaylee Bell & Jared Porter | "Pieces" |
| APRA Best Māori Songwriter | Ranea Aperahama | ||
| APRA Children's Song of the Year | Levity Beet and Daniel Stryczek | Levity Beet and Daniel Stryczek | "There’s One in the Bush" |
| What Now Children's Video of the Year | Stephen Templer and Ross Payne | fleaBITE | "Don’t Sit Under the Poo Tree" |