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Nominees for the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs) were announced yesterday, and three Nettwerk recording artists received nods: Morgan Page (Dance/Electronica Album), Wanting (Adult Contemporary Album) and Angus Stone (Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album). Additionally, Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride is one of the many esteemed judges on the panel, which also includes industry vets and influential artists like Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Suzanne Vega, Anthony DeCurtis (Rolling Stone) and Kevin Lyman (Vans Warped Tour).

According to the official press release from the IMAs, "more than 80 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories were culled from thousands of submissions from North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Greenland and Europe."  Read the full official press release HERE.

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CNN Travel recently caught up with Wanting in her hometown of Harbin, aka China's ice city. The Chinese superstar takes viewers on a journey through the multiple winter activities the city offers, including the Harbn Ice & Snow World, where each winter, 2,000 ice castles, ice palaces and ice slides are built and lit up with LED lights. Check it out above!

After a hugely successful year in and around China, Wanting was invited to perform her hit single "You Exist In My Song" at CCTV's New Year Gala in China. This televised celebration of the Chinese New Year is th emost watched television program in the world, with 700 million viewers in Mainland China alone. The Vancouver-based, Chinese-born singer/songwriter performed the track as a duet with famous Chinese actor, Du Chin. Watch it above. 

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Nettwerk Music Group has started off the New Year on a high note, coming off of an exciting 2012 across all facets of the company.

On the management side, the biggest story of the year was fun., who broke out with their smash single “We Are Young feat. Janelle Monae” from sophomore album Some Nights (Fueled by Ramen). The single has gone on to sell over 10.5 million digital copies worldwide and boasts more than 160 million YouTube views, while the album has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. The band ended the year with six Grammy® nominations including Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Song of the Year.

Internationally, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting (who is signed to Nettwerk's management, label and publishing rosters) saw her debut album, Everything In The World, explode in and around China, going Triple Platinum in China and Hong Kong and Platinum in Malaysia and Taiwan. Wanting is nominated for 10 Chinese Music Chart Awards (similar to the Grammy Awards), including Best New Artist, Album of the Year and Singer/Songwriter of the Year.

LA-based band Family of the Year, who sits on Nettwerk’s management and label rosters, saw a local buzz early last year grow into full-fledged national acclaim. Their track “Hero” debuted at #28 on the Triple A Chart (now Top 10), leading Billboard Magazine to highlight them in their “Bubbling Under” weekly feature. The band has seen huge licensing success, with tracks featured in the HBO series Girls, a national Advil television commercial, and a major placement in the anticipated film Thanks For Sharing, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo. They ended 2012 with their debut national TV appearance on Last Call with Carson Daly, and a nod from the Huffington Post, which said, "Family of the Year should be going places besides their next tour stop. Loma Vista is pure pop bliss...it deserves to appear on many year-end Top 10 lists."

Label artist Passenger started off 2013 with his latest album, All The Little Lights, achieving its highest chart ranking (#7) on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, where it has appeared for 22 straight weeks and counting. The video for lead single “Let Her Go” exploded on YouTube, gaining 6 million views over two months and bringing the current total to 7 million. In the UK, iTunes named All The Little Lights the “Best Singer/Songwriter Album of 2012.” Passenger’s fan-base grew exponentially after extensive tour dates with Ed Sheeran in the U.S. and Europe, leading to his own sold-out debut headline tour in December. He is currently in the midst of a sold-out UK/European headline run.

Nettwerk Music Group is excited to share its Fall Music Sampler 2012, highlighting some of the most exciting music coming from Nettwerk artists this fall, as well as some recent favorites. It's available here: http://amzn.to/SZIDs3.

The sampler features stand-out tracks from the label's latest signings, like the buzzed about LA-based band Family of the Year (who LA Weekly describes as an “off-center California pop sound for the here and now”), UK-born singer/songwriter Passenger (who NME says shows “heaps of style and intelligence”), Scottish indie-folk band Admiral Fallow (who Mojo calls "Scottish indie-rock's new champs"), Chinese-born, Vancouver-based artist Wanting (whose debut album Everything In The World is already triple Platinum in China), and Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Joshua Hyslop (who the CBC has called "superbly talented").  It also includes songs from favorite Nettwerk artists such as Morgan Page, Delerium, whose upcoming album is their first new studio release in six years, State Radio, Great Lake Swimmers and Junkie XL.

Chinese-born, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting has released a new lyric video for fan favorite track, "Life Is Like A Song," from her debut album Everything In The World. Check it out above.

Chinese-born, Vancouver-based artist Wanting was just featured on The National, the flagship nightly news and current affairs program from Canada's public broadcaster, CBC.  The singer/songwriter released her debut album Everything In The World last month. Watch the segment, which includes interviews with Wanting herself and Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride, above.  

“…a hipper, more global sensibility is at work on Everything in the World…
[Wanting] combines the soaring self-assurance of Alanis Morissette with the folk-pop attack of head Cranberry Dolores O’Riordan.” – The Georgia Straight

Everything In The World, the debut album from Chinese-born, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting, is out this week. CBC Music is currently hosting a listening party for the album, alongside a feature entitled “Meet Wanting.” The full feature can be found here: http://bit.ly/JE0HqG.

Stream Wanting's debut album Everything In The World below:

Whether penned in her native tongue of Mandarin or English (which she only learned to speak at age 16), Wanting’s piano-swept music has already won a following because her compositions—pop musings that plumb emotion—resonate universally. Without a label behind her, Wanting’s tunes have already sound-tracked the upcoming Chinese film Love in the Buff, appeared on a Mercedes Benz sampler, and amassed combined views of millions on Chinese YouTube.

Chinese-born, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting has joined Nettwerk’s label, management and publishing rosters, and will release her debut full-length studio album Everything In The World on April 24, 2012. Whether penned in her native tongue of Chinese or English (which she only learned to speak at age 16), Wanting’s piano-swept music has already won a following because her compositions—pop musings that plumb emotion—resonate universally. Without a label behind her, Wanting’s tunes have already sound-tracked the upcoming Chinese film Love in the Buff, appeared on a Mercedes Benz sampler, and amassed combined views of millions on Chinese YouTube.

Listen to new single "Life Is Like A Song" and other selections from the album here:

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Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting has released a new song called “Drenched” from her forthcoming debut album, due out on Nettwerk this spring. The track, which is accompanied by a lyric video (above), is featured in the movie trailer to the upcoming Chinese feature film “Love In The Buff.” The single is out now in iTunes (here), along with B-side “You Exist In My Song,” which is sung in Wanting's native language of Mandarin and about old friends alive in one’s thoughts.

Stay tuned for news, including album details, on Wanting.