The Libera Award for Best Breakthrough Artist is an award presented by the

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at the annual Libera Award which recognizes "independent artist whose release exceeded a certain total of streams or equivalent sales" since 2012. The category was previously called Up & Comer Award in 2012 to 2014. For the first two years of the awards, the category had two winners, one voted by A2IM members and the other voted by

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members. Indie pop band

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and

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band JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound were the inaugural recipients of the award. Since 2013, a set of nominees is annually presented, with the nomination sometimes being credited for a specific release.

Winners and nominees

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