A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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A2IM is pleased to announce our partnership with Official.FM to manage the A2IM Libera Awards submissions and nominations process.

With this strategic partner in place, A2IM is now accepting all independent submissions for nomination consideration.  The list of categories is below as well as links providing easy to follow instructions about how to submit for each category.

See the Shore Fire Media Press Release HERE.

Award: Independent Album of the Year presented by Official.fm

Award: Independent Label of the Year Award (5 Employees or less worldwide)

Award: Independent Label of the Year Award (6 Employees or more worldwide)

Award: Up and Comer Award presented by eMusic celebrating the next independent label superstar artist; to qualify artist must have total career sales not exceeding 5000 full length albums or 25,000 tracks (combined)

Award: Video of the Year celebrating the best short form music video for an independent artist.

Award: Best Sync Usage for the most creative or most impactful use of independent music in a film/tv/ad campaign

Award: Music Supervisor of the Year for the music supervisor/licensing person who was especially supportive of independent music labels and artists in the last 12 months

Award: Light Bulb Award celebrating the most innovative/creative marketing campaign by an independent label or artist in the last 12 months

Award: Road Warrior of the Year celebrating the independent label band/artist that worked hardest at their job in the last 12 months

Award: 21st Century Award celebrating the service provider or platform that was most beneficial to independent labels and artists in the last 12 months

Award: Creative Packaging Award (Physical or Digital) celebrating the best or most creative packaging – including bundled packages, premium offerings or artwork/design packaging – from an independent label or artist in the last 12 months

All nominee submissions must be for music, projects or artists that occurred or had new music available for commercial release in the United States via an independently owned/controlled label or artist with an office in or based in the United States during the period March 1, 2011 through February 29, 2012.

Submissions may be made by employees or owners of independent labels affiliated with the artists, music or projects being submitted but can also be made by artists, managers, industry professionals and people not affiliated with the artists, music or projects they’re nominating.  You’ll also see that we have award categories for sync licensing placements and music supervisors, best marketing campaign and most beneficial platform.  We encourage everyone to participate and nominate the artists, music, projects, people or services that have caught your attention in the last 12 months.

No submission will be considered without the name, company name, phone #, email address and job title or relationship to the nominee of the person making the submission (if for no other reason than because A2IM will need to be able to contact a person with authority related to any nominee – and if we don’t know such a person of authority we’ll hope that the submitting person can help put us in contact with the label, artist, or nominee.  All contact info provided will be kept confidential.  We never share or release contact info.).

The deadline for submissions to be sent in is March 30, 2012.

Upon the conclusion of the submissions period, A2IM will turn to panels of independent music experts to consider all accepted submissions and pare them down to final nominees in each category.  In May, 2012 the final nominees will be announced and subject to voting by the A2IM membership to select the Libera Award winners.

Winners will be announced at the A2IM Libera Awards ceremony at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street  New York, NY 10012) on June 21, 2012.  Read more info HERE.

Thanks to our Sponsor Pandora!

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A2IM will be hosting our 7th Annual SXSW Breakfast on Thursday, March 15 from 9AM-12PM at The Gatehouse at Residence Inn (300 E. 4th St. between Trinity & San Jacinto, Austin, map). This event is open to ALL MEMBERS OF A2IM but you MUST RSVP.

In addition to the breakfast, as a great networking opportunity for the A2IM member community, we are also organizing One-on-One Sessions where you will have the opportunity to meet directly with our Associate Member service providers in the areas of Licensing/Publishing OR New Media/Digital Marketing. Each meeting will last approx. 10 minutes. We will have two sessions from 10-11AM or 11AM-12PM during the breakfast. We will do our best to accommodate all requests. If you are a label interested in meeting service providers, please complete the form HERE. Space is limited.

NOTE: THE GUEST LIST FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST – SEE YOU IN AUSTIN!

You may view a list of A2IM members who have already RSVP’d for this event HERE.

If you have not yet registered for SXSW, you can access the A2IM discount HERE.

Big thanks to Entertainment One and Official.fm for sponsoring this event!

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Here is info on obtaining the 2012 A2IM registration discount for SXSW 2012. The discount reflects the lower price from the previous registration period.

Members must use the SXSW online form to access the discount. This discount is only available for the purchase of a Music registration. Please use the A2IM discount code:

A2IM Rates:
Sept. 23 – Nov. 11             $595
Nov. 12 – Jan. 13               $650
Jan. 14 – Feb. 10               $675
Feb.11 – March 18             $700

Returning registrants can use their existing user name/password, new registrants must create a new account in the SXSW E-Commerce system.

This code is to be entered in the online registration form when prompted in the checkout process. This code is good for A2IM members only. SXSW will verify all discounted registrations.

Please direct any questions regarding registration to reg@sxsw.com .