American Association Of Independent Music (“A2IM”) Congratulates Hopeless Records And All Time Low On Their Number One Album ‘Future Hearts’!

All Time Low reached the top of the album charts this week with their latest album ‘Future Hearts,’ their highest sales debut ever. A2IM congratulates our friends and colleagues at our member, Hopeless Records. ‘Future Hearts’ reinforces that “Independent” does not mean small; per Billboard Magazine Independent music labels represented 35.1% of recorded music sales in 2014. All Time Low’s debut follows other recent Independent #1s like Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ (Big Machine); Jason Aldean’s ‘Old Boots, New Dirt’ (Broken Bow); Lacrae ‘Anomaly’ (Reach Records); Arcade Fire ‘Reflektor’ (Merge); Queens of the Stone Age ‘…Like Clockwork’ (Matador); Vampire Weekend ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ (XL), and  Mumford & Sons’ ‘Babel’(Glassnote).

ABOUT A2IM

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City representing a broad coalition of over 350 Independently-owned American music label small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The organization represents Independents’ interest in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community, as well as, supports a key segment of America’s creative class and the small business community that represents America’s cultural and musical genre diversity. Billboard Magazine, using Nielsen SoundScan data, identified the Independent music label sector as 35.1 percent of the music industry's U.S. recorded music sales market in 2014 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry segment.

The organization's board of directors are composed of the following: Razor & Tie President Craig Balsam, Concord Music Group President Glen Barros, Secretly Label Group Head of Domestic Sales & Marketing Cathy Bauer, Smithsonian Folkways Director of Marketing & Sales Richard Burgess, Epitaph/Anti- General Manager Dave Hansen, Hopeless Records Owner Louis Posen, Dualtone Music Group CEO/Co-Founder Scott Robinson, Kill Rock Stars Owner/President Portia Sabin, Glassnote Records General Manager Chris Scully, Ole SVP Digital Jim Selby and Tommy Boy Owner/CEO Thomas Silverman. A2IM's president's advisory committee is Loma Vista Recordings Label Manager Josh Berman, Mack Avenue Records President Denny Stilwell and Compass Records Group Co-Founder Garry West. A2IM's Worldwide Independent Network lead representative is Wind-up Records General Manager Alan Galbraith.

For more information on A2IM, please visit a2im.org.