{"id":98371,"date":"2021-01-13T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98371"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:48:28","slug":"the-american-association-of-independent-music-a2im","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/the-american-association-of-independent-music-a2im\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) is an industry organization that represents the interests of independent labels in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Its members include the likes of ATO Records, Yep Roc Records, Epitaph Records, Beggars Group, Tommy Boy, and Secretly Label Group.<\/p>\n<p>In total A2IM has over 600 independent music label members.<\/p>\n<p>A2IM&#8217;s headquarters are located in New York, while the org has additional &#8216;chapters&#8217;\u00a0 in Nashville, Chicago, Northern California, Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Richard James Burgess, founder of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/a2im-appoints-richard-james-burgess-as-ceo-after-6-month-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named A2IM CEO in 2016. <\/a>Burgess then renewed his contract in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A2IM runs live events throughout each year, including Indie Week in New York, plus the yearly Libera Awards, which celebrate the best in the US independent music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The trade org was founded in 2005, as a successor to the likes of the National Association of Independent Record Distributors\u00a0(NAIRD) and the Association for Independent Music\u00a0(AFIM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based A2IM boasts over 600 independent label members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56030,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98371","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}