Half of 2024 GRAMMY® Winners are Independent!

Feb. 5, 2024 – A2IM (The American Association of Independent Music, Inc) congratulates this year’s GRAMMY winners, noting that 50% of winners are independent releases. This includes A2IM member labels 4AD, Candid, Concord, Cosmica Artists, Craft, EMPIRE, Fantasy, Loma Vista Recordings, Mack Avenue, Reach Records, Single Lock, and Thirty Tigers. 

“We are so proud to congratulate the 2024 Grammy-winning independent A2IM label members who continue to challenge industry norms. We applaud your courage and talent, and we thank you for continuing to lead the way for artists who want to do it their way,” said A2IM President and CEO, Dr. Richard James Burgess MBE.

List of Grammy-Winning Releases from A2IM Label Members:

Traditional R&B Performance (Morton/EMPIRE)

PJ Morton ft. Susan Carol

Good Morning

Rap Performance (Loma Vista Recordings)

Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane

Scientists & Engineers

Rap Song (Loma Vista Recordings)

Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane

Scientists & Engineers

Rap Album (Loma Vista Recordings)

Killer Mike

Michael

Jazz Instrumental Album (Mack Avenue)

Billy Childs

The Winds of Change

Large Jazz Ensemble Album (Unity Music/Candid)

The Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Scotty Barnhart

Basie Swings The Blues

Contemporary Instrumental Album (Thirty Tigers)

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer ft. Rakesh Chaurasia

As We Speak

Musical Theater Album (Concord)

Some Like It Hot

American Roots Performance (Fantasy/Concord)

Allison Russell

Eve Was Black

American Roots Song (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Cast Iron Skillet

Americana Album (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Weathervanes

Traditional Blues Album (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers)

Bobby Rush

All My Love for You

Contemporary Christian Music (Reach Records)

Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Your Power

Contemporary Christian Music Album (Reach Records)

Lecrae

Church Clothes 4

Roots Gospel Album (Single Lock Records)

Blind Boys of Alabama

Echoes of the South

Latin Pop Album (Cosmica Artists)

Gaby Moreno

X Mi (Vol. 1)

Global Music Performance (Thirty Tigers)

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain ft. Rakesh Chaurasia

Pashto

Recording Package (4AD)

Dry Cleaning

Stumpwork

Album Notes (Craft/Concord)

Various Artists

Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (album notes by Robert Gordon & Deanie Parker

Historical Album (Craft/Concord)

Various Artists

Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (album notes by Robert Gordon & Deanie Parker

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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