Jon Loba From Broken Bow Records Accepts Indie Label of the Year | Billboard Indie Power Players 2024 - video Dailymotion

Jon Loba from Broken Bow Records accepts Indie Label of the Year at Billboard's Indie Power Players 2024 event.

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00:00Please welcome the man that's been steering Broken Bow for over two decades

00:04and who was just named president of BMG's front line recordings business

00:09John Loba I will keep it short because I know there's drinking to do and people

00:22are tired of hearing you talk number one billboard thank you for this event for

00:26recognizing Indies but even more than that for being part of the storytelling

00:32process you are so much a part of our story for helping tell that and those

00:37stories of our artists we value that we will never forget that and we're going

00:42to do more of that thank you also to BMG Thomas Coesfeld Joe Gillen and our

00:48entire team for the trust you've placed in us to just go make great music and

00:54promote great music as well as our Nashville team led by Joe Jamie Haar I

01:00could not do what I do nor take on the extra responsibility I have taken on

01:05without her and our wonderful team mostly thank you to our artists who

01:10include our first real global star Blanco Brown who's here tonight for

01:16putting your trust in us we do not take that lightly we wake up every morning

01:20and fall asleep every night thinking about you your career your art your

01:25story and how we can tell that in a more effective fashion last thing I'm going

01:31to say is you know as we built the Broken Bow music group and everybody

01:36wanted to give us an award for this indie accolade or that indie accolade I

01:41would always tell the staff stop we're not measuring ourselves against Indies

01:46we are measuring ourselves against the majors we want to play in the big

01:51leagues having said all that in today's day and age I think I'm going to revise

01:57that a bit because the majors as we all know have potentially become investment

02:04banks have become big analytical houses the heart and the soul of music the

02:12future of music the icons in music will not live in some derivative form they

02:18will live in the Indies those of you who are waking up morning every morning and

02:24falling asleep every night to champion art that maybe right now doesn't fit in

02:30some analytic equation isn't hitting a certain algorithm but given the chance

02:37will so I'm going to start celebrating the Indies much more than we did thank

02:42you billboard and thank all of you