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GRAMMYs Alert: Submit Music for 59th GRAMMY Awards Nomination Consideration

It’s Grammy time! If you are a voting member of The Recording Academy your deadline to submit music via their Online Entry Process is as follows:

JULY 01: Online Entry Process – Access Opens:
Record Company & Member First Round Entries (Access Closes: July 20, 2016)

JULY 31: Last Day to Become A Member of TRA & Participate in OEP

AUG. 10: Online Entry Process – Access Opens:
Record Company & Member Final Round Entries – (Access Closes: August 24. 2016)

SEP. 15: Last Day to Join The Recording Academy & Receive First ballot

OCT. 14: MAILING: First Ballot to Voting Members (Due Date: November. 4, 2016)

NOV. 15: Last Day to Join The Recording Academy & Receive Final ballot

If you are NOT a voting member but you are a “Registered Media Company/Record Label” with The Recording Academy, you are invited to submit music for consideration, but are ineligible to vote in the GRAMMY Awards process.

Want to become a voting member? Click here! It only costs $100 to become a member/voter!

About A2IM:
A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City that exists to support and strengthen the independent recorded music sector. Membership currently includes a broad coalition of more than 700 Independently-owned American music labels. A2IM represents these independently owned small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community. In doing so, it supports a key segment of America’s creative class that represents America’s diverse musical cultural heritage. Billboard Magazine identified the Independent music label sector as 37.32 percent of the music industry’s U.S. recorded music sales market in 2016 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry sector.

Learn more about A2IM here.
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