A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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A2IM wants to congratulate our member Glassnote Records as Mumford & Sons’ album “Sigh No More” has crossed the 1 million unit digital album sales threshold joining XL Recordings’ Adele as one of only three artist albums to have sold over 1 million copies digitally in the United States.

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Bandzoogle offers FREE website reviews to all A2IM members

Bandzoogle is the leading website platform for DIY artists, and seeing that many independent labels have recently started using its tools to build websites for their artists, they recently decided to join A2IM. (more…)

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Have you seen your music available for free on websites you haven’t licensed?

Have you ever tried to get your music taken down from those websites and found that they are based in Russia or China or some other country outside of the U.S.?

Do you know that currently, U.S. law provides no realistic method for labels and artists to get their music taken down from such infringing websites?

If this is a problem for your business A2IM urges you to write your elected representatives in Washington D.C. to ask them to help get PROTECT IP (S.986 in the Senate) passed.

Letters from our collective community helped get the support of the U.S. Chamber of Congress for PROTECT IP and it has unanimously passed out of committee in the Senate. Now we need your help to get it passed by Congress and made into U.S. law.

A2IM has been a supporter of PROTECT IP and we’ve written you previously about this bill’s progress but now Congress needs to hear from small and medium sized businesses that create IP and employ people in their districts. Please write today and also please forward this to your staff, your friends, your artists and their managers and attorneys.

PROTECT IP, if passed, would give U.S. law enforcement the ability to cut foreign based rogue websites “dedicated to infringing activities” from having access to the American market.

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A2IM and some of our members were some of the 359 signatories on a letter sent to Capitol Hill last week urging passage of the PROTECT IP Act.  Read the letter sent by the coalition here.

As we have reported to you earlier here, the proposed Protect IP legislation is the next step in advancing our fight against the digital content theft that has contributed to the recorded music revenue plunges experienced by our members.

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The Americana Music Festival & Conference brings together both legendary and rising artists, along with the best and brightest music industry leaders for four days of education, inspiration and pure fun! This year’s event will take place Wednesday through Saturday, October 12 – 15, gathering thousands of artists, fans and industry professionals from all over the world in Nashville, TN. Americanafest promises to once again be the must-attend event of the year for anyone who loves great music. Conference registrations, showcase wristbands and tickets are available now at www.americanamusic.org. (more…)

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ONErpm.com rolls out new version of Facebook music store designed specifically for record labels.

About us:
ONErpm.com powers the social commerce of bands and record labels, and is a digital distribution company based in Brooklyn with operations in Latin America and the USA.

We believe we’ve created the ideal solution for record labels to sell and promote their music on Facebook for the following reasons: (more…)