ZM's Top Artists - Summer Edition
- Publish Date
- Friday, 14 March 2025, 12:19PM

Wake up babe ZM's top artists of the summer just dropped! 🌴🎵
Who claimed the top spots on our playlist this summer?
Pixie here from the Music Team - I've crunched the numbers, and now you can check out your most-played artists of the year (so far) on ZM! Did your #1 make it to the top?
Chappell Roan secured #2, Benson Boone backflipped into #3… but who took the crown? Find out below.
But before we get into it, can I just say that this summer has been unreal. Georgia got married, Fletch travelled the globe AGAIN, and the office girlies ran into Charli XCX in the mosh at Laneway.
But is NZ getting a brat summer enough for her to take out the title?
And unfortunately we're all still clowning for rep TV so Taylor didn't quite make it into the top 3 this time...
Here's the top 3 artists that ruled our playlist over the last few months as helped by you when you Rate Our Playlist weekly 😉
#3 - Benson Boone
Benson Boone backflipped his way into our top 3. Fresh off his NZ show, we're smashing his latest release, "Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else" all over the airwaves.
We stumbled upon his burner TikTok account. Yeah, we're officially obsessed and still can't believe he visited us in our office a few years ago.
#2 - Chappell Roan
Vaughan's favourite artist rn has just blessed us with new music, and someone tell Georgia asap cause she's gone country! She can do no wrong. ZM is now spinning "The Giver" alongside Chappell's OG bops.
#1 - Sabrina Carpenter
Surely juno this was coming?! Taylor Swift declared it the summer of Sabrina and we totally agree. We actually can't get enough of Short n' Sweet.
Her latest hit "Busy Woman" off the deluxe version is on repeat on ZM. Please, please, please visit us in Aotearoa soon!
We've also just added Doechii's 2023 tune "Anxiety", more new Tate McRae, and Kiwi artist Riiki Reid's "Over Romantic" to our playlist. We're also crowning rising star Alex Warren as our favourite new artist.
Wanna hear MORE or LESS of our top artists? Think we should be playing new Gaga? Tell us by rating our playlist! We rlly value what you guys think, it is YOUR station after all.
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Play ZM for all the hits and throwbacks why don't ya x