April Monthly Round-up!

April 5, 2017
2:41 pm

Behind The Scenes

Team A2IM had a successful SXSW – thank you to all of our members that came and made the A2IM Breakfast such a success!
We’ve announced some super exciting performances and awards being given out at this year’s Libera Awards: Ani DiFranco will be accepting Lifetime Achievement and Nick Lowe will be there to accept Independent Icon
Richard spoke at Music 4.5 on the music industry value gap and the reintroduction of Fair Play, Fair Pay
Patrick organized a successful sit-down with our Board of Directors and Lyor Cohen/YouTube at SXSW
Team A2IM has Peter Schwinge and Moving Target Group are working hard to introduce exciting new panels for Indie Week 2017! Keep checking our newsletter and social media for exciting updates
Alex is excited to announce that A2IM is now working directly with The Press House! Welcome to Dawn Kamerling & her stellar team!
Team A2IM also welcomed some new members: Tender Loving Empire, Interline Records, Javotti Media, Penalty Entertainment, Rough Trade Publishing, Bonsound, & Warp!
Marcus is hard at work to make this year’s Libera Awards the best yet – have you bought your ticket yet?!
Sky is rocking it for our confirmed sponsors – shoutout to Indie Week and The Libera Awards presented by SoundExchange in partnership with ADA, YouTube, Caroline, The Orchard, INgrooves, BuzzAngle Music, CI, Merlin, and PledgeMusic! If you’re interested in joining that lineup, contact him directly.
Lisa is gearing up for Executive One-on-Ones during Indie Week, so be on the lookout to schedule your meetings soon!

News Recap

Statement from musicFIRST Executive Director Chris Israel Lauding Introduction of Fair Play Fair Pay Act.
Libera Awards Volunteers Needed! Let us know if you want to be invovled!
A2IM Sets Libera Awards Lineup: Nick Lowe, Ani DiFranco, Talib Kweli, Twin Peaks and Nick Hakim To Perform At PlayStation Theater June 8, 2017
On March 6, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order to implement new screening, visa issuance, and admissions procedures for individuals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, effective March 16, 2017. A2IM joined the music community in opposition.
Indie Week 2017’s Annual General Meeting has some heavy hitters this year… Check them out!
WIN Releases it’s Global Chart Report 2016, you can read it here.
Sales of physical merchandise (t-shirts, vinyl, CDs, cassettes, tickets, posters, etc.) grew at a phenomenal rate on Bandcamp in 2016.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Media and Entertainment Commissioner Julie Menin announced the results of the first-ever economic impact study of New York City’s music industry.

Events Coming Up

Indie Week 2017
A2IM Libera Awards
A2IM Discount: Midem
A2IM Discount: Canadian Music Week 2017
Guild of Music Supervisors Sync Drinks NYC

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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