Merlin Congratulates Its 60+ Member Labels and Distributors Nominated for 2023 Libera Awards, Making Up 76% of Total Nominations

Congratulations to all of the Merlin Members nominated for 2023 Libera Awards. Over 60 Merlin label and distributor members have nominations with 166 total nominations, making up 76% of total nominations. The following is a list of Merlin Member nominees.

!K7 Records

Best Classical Record – “At the Crest” – Jonas Colstrup
Best Dance Record – “DJ-Kicks” – Theo Parrish

4AD (Beggars)

Record of the Year – “Stumpwork” – Dry Cleaning
Best Alternative Rock Record – “Stumpwork” – Dry Cleaning
Best Folk Record – “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You” – Big Thief
Best Latin Record – “Ya No Astoy Aquí” – Helado Negro
Best Live/Livestream Act – Live at the Getty – Bartees Strange
Best Remix – “Wretched (keiyaA Remix)” – Bartees Strange
Best Singer Songwriter Record – “Warm Chris” – Aldous Harding

Alligator Records (Exceleration Music)

Best Blues Record – “Done Come Too Far” – Shemekia Copeland

ANTI- (Epitaph)

Best American Roots Record – “El Mirador” – Calexico
Best Country Record – “I Walked With You A Ways” – Plains
Best Folk Record – “Quitters” – Christian Lee Hutson
Best Latin Record – “IRE” – Combo Chimbita
Best Outlier Record – “Jazz Codes” – Moor Mother
Best Re-Issue – “Wild Creatures” – Neko Case

ATO Records

Label of the Year (15 or more employees)
Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Hawk For The Dove” – Amanda Shires
Best Alternative Rock Record – “Painless” – Nilüfer Yanya
Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” – Rodrigo y Gabriela
Best Latin Record – “Boleros Psicodélicos” – Adrian Quesada
Best Live/Livestream Act – “Colors Live at Abbey Road Studios” – Black Pumas
Best Outlier Record – “COMETA” – Nick Hakim
Best Remix – “Midnight Sun (Sampha remix)” – Nilüfer Yanya
Best Soul/Funk Record – “The Alien Coast” – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Creative Packaging – “Circuital, Deluxe Edition” – My Morning Jacket

Bayonet Records (Secretly Distribution)

Best Outlier Record – “Glitch Princess” – yeule

Big Dada (Ninja Tune)

Best R&B Record – “Remember Your North Star” – Yaya Bey

Because Music

A2IM Humanitarian Award – Björk
Best Dance Record – “Can’t Stop Thinking About” – Logic1000
Best Electronic Record – “Topical Dancer ” – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
Best Electronic Record – “Nymph” – Shygirl
Best Remix – “Cliché (Soulwax Remix)” – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

Blackground Music 2.0 (EMPIRE Distribution)

A2IM Humanitarian Award – Killer Mike

Brainfeeder (Ninja Tune)

Best Remix – “Get Sun (Georgia Anne Muldrow Remix)” – Hiatus Kaiyote

Candid Records (Exceleration Music)

Best Jazz Record – “new STANDARDS Vol. 1” – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, Matthew Stevens
Best Latin Record – “Quietude” – Eliane Elias

Captured Tracks (Secretly Distribution)

Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Captured Tracks
Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Thank You” – JayWood

Chrysalis (Reservoir Media)

Best Blues Record – “Bloodline Maintenance” – Ben Harper
Best Sync Usage – “Drink Before the War,” Euphoria – Sinéad O’Connor

City Slang (Zebralution)

Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – City Slang
Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Let the Festivities Begin!” – Los Bitchos
Best Short-Form Video – The Runner – Boy Harsher

Daptone Records (Redeye)

Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Daptone Records
Best R&B Record – “Thee Sacred Souls” – Thee Sacred Souls
Best Soul/Funk Record – “Sentimental Fool” – Lee Fields

Dead Oceans (Secretly)

Best Alternative Rock Record – “Laurel Hell” – Mitski
Best American Roots Record – “This Is A Photograph” – Kevin Morby
Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Ali” – Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin
Best Live/Livestream Act – Glastonbury 2022 – Phoebe Bridgers
Best R&B Record – “Texas Moon” – Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
Best Short-Form Video – MAHAL TikTok series – Toro y Moi
Creative Packaging – “Laurel Hell” – Mitski

Domino Recording Co.

Record of the Year – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg
Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Ur Mum” – Wet Leg
Best Alternative Rock Record – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg
Best Live/Livestream Act – US 2022 tour – Wet Leg
Best Outlier Record – “Time Skiffs ” – Animal Collective
Best Remix – “Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix)” – Wet Leg
Marketing Genius – “Wet Leg” – Wet Leg

Don Giovanni Records (Redeye Worldwide)

Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Don Giovanni Records
Best Country Record – “Blackberry Rose” – Lavender Country
Best Soul/Funk Record – “I Need A Job…So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune” – Swamp Dog

Epitaph

Record of the Year – “Diaspora Problems” – Soul Glo
Breakthrough Artist/Release – Soul Glo
Breakthrough Artist/Release – The Linda Lindas
Best Heavy Record – “Diaspora Problems” – Soul Glo
Best Punk Record – “Growing Up” – The Linda Lindas

Fire Talk (Redeye Worldwide)

Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Fire Talk

Foreign Family Collective (Ninja Tune)

Best Electronic Record – “The Last Goodbye” – ODESZA

Friends of Friends (!K7)

Best Classical Record – “We Will Live On” – Deru

FUGA

Independent Champion – FUGA

Ghostly International (Secretly)

Best Electronic Record – “Let’s Turn It Into Sound” – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Hopeless Records

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Hopeless Records
A2IM Humanitarian Award – Hopeless Records
Best Punk Record – “The Hum Goes On Forever” – The Wonder Years

Innovative Leisure (Redeye Worldwide)

Label of the Year (1-5 Employees) – Innovative Leisure
Best Jazz Record – “Living Sky” – Leland Whitty

Jagjaguwar (Secretly)

Best American Roots Record – “Big Time” – Angel Olsen
Best Re-Issue – “Bon Iver, 10th Anniversary Edition ” – Bon Iver
Best Sync Usage – “Go Home,” Empire of Light Trailer – Angel Olsen

KGLW (ATO Records)

Best Live/Livestream Act – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Red Rocks – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Kill Rock Stars (Redeye Worldwide)

Best Punk Record – “Back Home ” – Big Joanie

Matador Records (Beggars)

Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Afrique Refait” – Mdou Moctar
Best Rock Record – “Lucifer On The Sofa” – Spoon
Best Short-Form Video – “Scooter” – Belle And Sebastian

Merge Records

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Merge Records
Best Classical Record – “Pigments” – Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “Electricity” – Ibibio Sound Machine

Mexican Summer (Redeye Worldwide)

Best Global Record presented by Redeye Worldwide – “En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog” – Dungen
Best Latin Record – “Estrela Acesa” – Sessa

Mom + Pop

A2IM Humanitarian Award – Tegan and Sara
Best Pop Record – “Second Nature” – Lucius
Best Pop Record – “Crybaby” – Tegan and Sara

Nettwerk Music Group

Best Classical Record – “memorie” – doeke

New West Records (Redeye Worldwide & [PIAS])

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – New West Records
Best American Roots Record – “Denim & Diamonds ” – Nikki Lane
Best Blues Record – “Set Sail” – North Mississippi Allstars
Best Country Record – “Neon Blue” – Joshua Hedley
Best Country Record – “JERRY JEFF” – Steve Earle and The Dukes
Best Soul/Funk Record – “Love & Algorhythms” – SERATONES
Best American Roots Record – “Fortune Favors the Bold” – 49 Winchester

Ninja Tune

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Ninja Tune
Best Dance Record – “Water” – Bicep
Best Electronic Record – “Fragments” – Bonobo
Creative Packaging – “Ants From Up There, Deluxe” – Black Country, New Road

Partisan Records ([PIAS])

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Partisan Records
Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Jackie Down The Line” – Fontaines D.C.
Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Parasites” – NoSo
Best Jazz Record – “Where I’m Meant To Be” – Ezra Collective
Best Live/Livestream Act – Live on ‘From The Basement’ – IDLES
Best Pop Record – “Stay Proud of Me ” – NoSo
Best Re-Issue – “Fela with Ginger Baker Live!” – Fela Kuti
Best Rock Record – “Skinty Fia” – Fontaines D.C.
Best Short-Form Video – “Pistol ” – Cigarettes After Sex
Best Singer Songwriter Record – “Weather Alive” – Beth Orton
Best Sync Usage – “Water No Get Enemy,” Airbnb – Fela Kuti
Marketing Genius – “Skinty Fia” – Fontaines D.C.

Pentatone (Naxos)

Best Classical Record – “Lost & Found” – Sean Shibe

Polyvinyl Record Co.

Record of the Year – “Blue Rev” – Alvvays
Best Alternative Rock Record – “Blue Rev” – Alvvays
Best Folk Record – “PRE PLEASURE ” – Julia Jacklin

Reach Records

Best Spiritual Record – “Church Clothes 4” – Lecrae

Redeye Worldwide

Independent Champion – Redeye Worldwide

Rough Trade (Beggars)

Best Electronic Record – “I Love You Jennifer B” – Jockstrap
Best Heavy Record – “Hellfire” – black midi
Best Punk Record – “Endure” – Special Interest
Best Short-Form Video – Hellfire TikTok promotion – Black Midi

Saddest Factory Records (Secretly)

Best Pop Record – “MUNA” – MUNA

Saddle Creek

Label of the Year (6-14 Employees) – Saddle Creek

Secretly Canadian (Secretly)

Video of the Year presented by YouTube Music – “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Best Folk Record – “Quiet The Room” – Skullcrusher
Best Outlier Record – “Please Have A Seat” – NNAMDÏ
Marketing Genius – “Cool It Down ” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Secretly Distribution (Secretly)

Independent Champion – Secretly Distribution

Stones Throw Records

Breakthrough Artist/Release – Sudan Archives
Best R&B Record – “Natural Brown Prom Queen” – Sudan Archives
Marketing Genius – “Natural Brown Prom Queen” – Sudan Archives

Strut Records (!K7)

Best Latin Record – “If You Will” – Flora Purim

Sub Pop

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Sub Pop
Best Live/Livestream Act – Live – Low
Best Remix – “Nothing Is Safe (remx)” – Clipping
Best Rock Record – “When The Wind Forgets Your Name” – Built to Spill
Best Singer Songwriter Record – “And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow” – Weyes Blood

Tangerine Records (Exceleration Music)

Best Re-Issue – “A Message From The People” – Ray Charles
Best Soul/Funk Record – “Live in Stockholm 1972” – Ray Charles

Third Man Records

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Third Man Records
Best Rock Record – “Fear of the Dawn” – Jack White
Creative Packaging – “2022 Collector’s Set” – Jack White
Creative Packaging – “Dopesmoker, Weedian High-Fi Edition” – Sleep

Warp Records

Label of the Year (15 or more employees) – Warp Records
Best Dance Record – “Happy Ending” – Kelela
Best Punk Record – “LOGGERHEAD ” – Wu-Lu
Best Sync Usage – “A Flower Called Nowhere,” Atlanta – Warp Records

XL Recordings (Beggars)

Record of the Year – “A Light for Attracting Attention” – The Smile
Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record – “LOUIE” – Kenny Beats
Best Short-Form Video – LOUIE 001 Instagram vignette series – Kenny Beats

Yep Roc Records (Redeye Worldwide)

Best Folk Record – “Age of Apathy” – Aoife O’Donovan

YOUNG (Beggars)

Best Dance Record – “Strong” – Romy feat. Fred Again…
Best Jazz Record – “The Garden Path” – Kamasi Washington