Since the release of her first single Drive in 1996 – Bic Runga (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine) has been awarded almost every musical honour in New Zealand, including the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award. Bic has won the most Tui Awards (New Zealand Music Awards) by any individual, ever (twenty). She has won Best Female Vocalist four times and Best Producer three times.
Bic’s debut album Drive was certified seven times platinum and featured the enormous hit Sway. The follow up, Beautiful Collision in 2002 was certified an incredible eleven times platinum and featured the hits Get Some Sleep, Something Good and Listening For The Weather. In January 2006, Runga was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Zealand New Year's Honours List. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Legacy award at the New Zealand music awards and inducted in to New Zealand Music hall of fame.
Bic sits on the APRA board as a writer-director and on the executive committee of the Music Producers Guild New Zealand.
2023 featured a sold out tour across Aotearoa and Australia celebrating 20 years of Beautiful Collision, followed by Rollingstone honouring Bic with the Rollingstone Icon award.