Secretly Celebrates 6 Wins at 2022 Libera Awards, Including Record of The Year, Best Alternative Rock Record, Creative Packaging & Marketing Genius for Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans), Best Sync Usage for Phoebe Bridgers, Best Classical Record for Bryce Dessner (37d03d)
Congratulations Extended to 13 Secretly Executives Named as Billboard's 2022 Indie Power Players
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Today, Secretly extends its collective congratulations to the artists and affiliated companies who just earned a total of six Libera Awards last night. Marking the country's largest, annual celebration of independent music, the ceremony's biggest achievements came from Japanese Breakfast and Secretly Group record label Dead Oceans, who together took home trophies for Record of The Year, Best Alternative Rock Record, Creative Packaging and Marketing Genius, all honoring the critical and commercial breakout of 2021 album, Jubilee. The win for Record of The Year marks the sixth time in the Libera's 11-year history that a Secretly Group artist has taken home the awards' headline category, capping another consecutive year of outstanding work, wide representation, and numerous, influential accomplishments across the top of the field.
Additional Secretly wins included Phoebe Bridgers and Dead Oceans for Best Sync Usage ("I Know the End" – Ep 106 Mare of Easttown), as well as Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, Sydney Dance Company and Secretly artist collective 37d03d for Best Classical Record (Impermanence/Disintegration). Secretly Distribution also applauds its label partners Sacred Bones, who earned Label of The Year (Medium), and Single Lock Records, who earned two victories for Best Blues Record and Best Spiritual Record.
Entering the 2022 Libera Awards with 15 concerted nominations for artists Big Red Machine, Bryce Dessner, Durand Jones & The Indications, Phoebe Bridgers, serpentwithfeet, shame, Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, plus 37d03d and Secretly Group labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian, Secretly was recognized across the genres of alternative, classical, pop, R&B and rock. Japanese Breakfast had also received nods for Breakthrough Artist, Video of The Year and Best Live Act, while Secretly Canadian was up for the A2IM Humanitarian Award, commending the changemaking, charitable mission it has continued to uphold with its ongoing 25th Anniversary campaign, SC25: Every Light On This Side Of The Town. Focused on fighting homelessness in Secretly's hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, SC25 has produced a sprawling series of new music, reissues, creative partnerships and projects, uniting a community of artists and fans in a goal to raise $250,000 for the local, gender-inclusive organization, New Hope For Families.
As the culmination of A2IM's Indie Week conference, the Libera Awards followed a busy few days for Secretly executives. Secretly Group Project Manager Alia Raheem discussed investing in queer artists beyond Pride month, and Secretly Co-CEO Darius Van Arman participated in a closing panel to predict what 2023 will hold for the music industry.
Earlier this month, a record 13 Secretly executives were also named on Billboard's list of 2022 Indie Power Players. Honorees included Secretly Group's Ben Swanson (Co-Founder/COO), Chris Swanson (Co-Founder/President of A&R), Phil Waldorf (Co-Founder/Chief Marketing Officer), Nick Blandford (Managing Director of Americas), Hannah Carlen (North American Marketing Director), Jon Coombs (VP of A&R) and Robby Morris (Creative Director), as well as Secretly Distribution's Darius Van Arman (Co-CEO), Chris Welz (Managing Director), Chris Cannon (Head of International Strategy), Charley Kiefer (Director of Digital Account Strategy) and Jacqui Resur (Head of Label Relations), plus Saddest Factory Records' CEO, Phoebe Bridgers.
In addition to the Secretly Group of record labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Saddest Factory Records and Secretly Canadian, the larger Secretly ecosystem consists of The Numero Group, 37d03d, Secretly Publishing, Secretly Distribution, and the recently launched All Flowers Group. Comprised of record labels Ghostly International and the brand new drink sum wtr, All Flowers is a constellation of music brands sharing the "same soil, water, and sun" approach that has fostered the success of Secretly Group, driven by Secretly's principal, overarching belief that the most important cultural contributions come from artists and the small to medium-sized businesses that support them.
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