Libera Award for Best Breakthrough Artist

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Libera Award for Best Breakthrough Artist
CountryUnited States
Presented by American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
First awarded2012
Currently held by Sudan Archives (2023)
Website liberaawards.com

The Libera Award for Best Breakthrough Artist is an award presented by the American Association of Independent Music at the annual Libera Award which recognizes "independent artist whose release exceeded a certain total of streams or equivalent sales" since 2012. [1] The category was previously called Up & Comer Award in 2012 to 2014.

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For the first two years of the awards, the category had two winners, one voted by A2IM members and the other voted by eMusic members. Indie pop band The Dø and Indie soul band JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound were the inaugural recipients of the award. Since 2013, a set of nominees is annually presented, with the nomination sometimes being credited for a specific release.

Winners and nominees

YearWinner(s)WorkNomineesRef.
2012 The Dø [lower-alpha 1] —— [2]
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound [lower-alpha 2]
2013 Mikal Cronin [lower-alpha 1] —
 [3] [4]
The Virginmarys [lower-alpha 2]
2014 Angel Olsen (Up & Comer Artist Award) Burn Your Fire for No Witness
[5] [6]
Chvrches (Breakthrough Artist) The Bones of What You Believe
2015 Sturgill Simpson — [7] [8]
2016 Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit [9] [10]
2017 Whitney Light Upon the Lake [11] [12]
2018 Princess Nokia 1992 Deluxe [13] [14]
2019 Idles Joy as an Act of Resistance
[15] [16]
2020 Orville Peck [17] [18]
2021 Arlo Parks [19]
2022 Wet Leg "Chaise Longue" [20]
2023 Sudan Archives [21]
[22]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Voted by A2IM members.
  2. 1 2 Voted by eMusic members.

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  19. ↑ Grein, Paul (March 22, 2021). "Phoebe Bridgers, Run the Jewels & Perfume Genius Among Top Nominees For 2021 Libera Awards". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
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