February Monthly Round-Up!

February 7, 2017
1:29 pm

Behind The Scenes

Welcome Lisa Hresko to #TeamA2IM as our new Associate Member Relations Manager!
Sky has been working on brand Partnerships and sponsorships. In the past few months SoundExchange, Caroline, INgrooves, The Orchard, ADA, CI, and BuzzAngle have all decided to return as sponsors for Indie Week and The Libera Awards in 2017 and 2018. If you’re interested in sponsoring this year, don’t hesitate to reach out to [email protected].
A2IM welcomed several new members: Transoceanic Recording Co., Gotee Records, RTJ Music, Inc., Six Shooter Records
Alex was out in Seattle hosting our first Pacific Northwest meet up in several years! Thank you to all that came out
Patrick went out to Los Angeles to host the A2IM slot at the iHeart Radio summit
A2IM signed on to Comments Submitted by Music Community Organizations to the House Judiciary Committee Re: U.S. Copyright Office Modernization
Richard attended the first official WIN board meeting in Richmond, UK & Indie Con
Marcus set up a new software system to make all of our Executive One-on-Ones easier for all –
Marcus & Alex want to remind you that Indie Week and the Libera Awards are ON SALE
- PreSale is over but you can still get discounted tickets before March 31! See here for details
A2IM sponsored the NYC3 mixer and we hung out with our friends at Communion Records that hosted an event with GooglePlay/YouTube
Want to see all of our day to day happenings? Check our Twitter for constant updates!

Events Coming Up

A2IM Discount: Folk Alliance International Conference
A2IM Discount: SXSW Music & Platinum!
A2IM 12th Annual SXSW Breakfast
Indie Week 2017!
A2IM Libera Awards
A2IM Discount: Midem

News Recap:

We want to hear from you! What do you want to see at Indie Week 2017?
We rallied together labels for the recent iHeart Radio summit in Los Angeles
BuzzAngle Music released its first Yearly Report on Music Consumption for 2016
Spotlight on Soundcharts, which processes, analyses and archives a mass of information in real-time, and gives meaning to all of this data with its industry leading dashboard.
Citrin Cooperman is among the leading, nationally recognized full-service accounting firms with a specialization in the music industry.
We’re looking for sponsors for our annual SXSW Breakfast!
Check out Ouveer it’s the unified digital marketplace that the music industry has been longing for.

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.
For information about how to join our community, see here.