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# Secretly scores at Libera Awards and on Billboard Indie Power Players list
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/secretly-scores-at-libera-awards-and-on-billboard-indie-power-players-list/
- Published: 2024-06-13T15:58:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-13T16:01:01.000Z
- Description: It was a big week for Indie music juggernaut Secretly, which scored big at A2IM’s Libera Awards and on the Billboard 2024 Indie Power Players list….
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, music, Music Business, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

It was a big week for Indie music juggernaut Secretly, which scored big at A2IM’s Libera Awards and on the Billboard 2024 Indie Power Players list.

At the **Libera Awards,** Secretly’s wins included :

- **Record of The Year** for Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- The ceremony’s inaugural **Publisher of The Year** award for Secretly Publishing
- **Best Singer-Songwriter Record** for Angel Olsen’s Forever Means (Jagjaguwar).

The Awards also featured a performance from first-time Secretly and All Flowers Group nominee **Kari Faux (drink sum wtr),** and Secretly Distribution’s partners at **Asthmatic Kitty Records and Single Lock Records** respectively took home prizes for Best Folk Record (*Javelin*, Sufjan Stevens) and Best Spiritual Record (*Echoes of the South*, Blind Boys of Alabama).

**Billboard’s 2024 Indie Power Players** list honored eight executives across Secretly Group and Secretly Distribution:

- Ben Swanson (Co-Founder/COO, Secretly Group), Chris Swanson (Co-Founder/President of A&R, Secretly Group)
- Phil Waldorf (Co-Founder/Chief Marketing Officer, Secretly Group)
- Robby Morris (VP of Creative, Secretly Group)
- Jessica Park (Global Label Director, Secretly Group)
- Emily Puterbaugh (Director of Streaming & Digital Sales, Secretly Group
- Darius Van Arman (CEO, Secretly Distribution)
- Chris Welz (COO, Secretly Distribution).

**Bruce Houghton* is the Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), a Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com), and a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor.*