AMP Awards announces 2022 shortlist
Human leads with five shortlisted entries, followed by TBWA \ Media Arts Lab with four, as music and sound awards gears up for its May 24 live show.
The judges’ work is done, the Curatorial Committee has weighed in and now the finalists have been unveiled, as the 2022 AMP Awards for Music & Sound has today published its Shortlist on LinkedIn.
Winners will be revealed and celebrated with a live, in-person awards gala set for Tuesday, May 24 at Sony Hall in New York City.
The Los Angeles and New York music and sound design studio Human Worldwide led the Shortlist with five finalists, followed closely by TBWA \ Media Arts Lab, with four.
Human was shortlisted in the categories of Outstanding Adaptation / Arrangement for its work on Sandy Hook Promise and in the category of Outstanding Sonic Branding or Mnemonic for its work for HubSpot. It scored two Shortlist entries in the Best Original Song category, one for Microsoft Xbox and one for Kraft. Its final Shortlist entry was in the Best Artist + Brand Collaboration, also for Kraft.
TBWA \ Media Arts Lab’s finalists were all for Apple. It was Shortlisted in the categories of Outstanding Adaptation / Arrangement, Best Use of a Licensed, Pre-Existing Recording (twice) and in Best Artist + Brand Collaboration.
The Amp Awards finalists were reviewed earlier this month by the competition’s Curatorial Committee, led by AMP Awards Show Chair Julia Neumann, Chief Creative Officer of Johannes Leonardo, who will be on hand at the awards ceremony to present the Ryan Barkan Award for Best in Show.
Other companies scoring multiple Shortlisted entries were Antfood, Dentsu, Droga5 and Wave Studios NY, with three each; and Duotone, Heavy Duty Projects, Made Music Studio, Sonic Union, Squeak E. Clean Studio and Yessian with two.
Also represented on the AMP Awards Shortlist were entries from BANG Music, Barking Owl, BUTTER Music + Sound, COPILOT Music + Sound, Groove Guild, Light Post Sound, Mophonics, Network Music Group, Racket Club, Score a Score, Swell Music + Sound, Townhouse Worldwide and Zync Music.