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A2IM at Golden Melody Awards & Festival!

Last week our Senior Director of Members Services, Jen Masset, traveled to Taipei, Taiwan and took part in the Golden Melody Panel Discussions, a part of the festivities of the 2016 Golden Melody Awards & Festival. It was three days of talks comprising over ten themes at Taipei’s Humble House.

Jen took part in a panel discussing the theme of business opportunities in the indie music scene. Panelists included Pochang Wu, Frontman of the Taiwanese rock band ECHO, Millie Millgate, Executive Producer at Sounds Australia, Priyanka Dewan, Asia Director of The Orchard from Singapore, Jennifer Masset, Senior Director of Member Services at A2IM from US and Lihui Shen, Founder of Modernsky Entertainment Ltd from China.

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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.

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