2021 Libera Awards

! width="50%" |Record of the Year

! width="50%" |Best Live/Livestream Act

• Run the Jewels – RTJ4
• Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
• Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind
• Thundercat – It Is What It Is
• Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

| valign="top" |Phoebe Bridgers

• Run the Jewels
• Fontaines D.C.
• Perfume Genius
• Arca

• Rev. Moose
• Megan Thee Stallion
• Paul Redding
• Kevin Liles

| valign="top" |Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

• Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
• Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
• Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy

• Kevin Morby – Sundowner
• Calexico – Seasonal Shift
• Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers
• Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels

| valign="top" |Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?

• Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw
• Don Bryant – You Make Me Feel
• Robert Cray Band – That’s What I Heard
• Sonny Landreth – Blacktop Run

• Paul Moravec – Sanctuary Road
• Echo Collective – The See Within
• Niklas Paschburg – Svalbard
• Vitamin String Quartet – Vitamin String Quartet Performs Lana Del Rey

| valign="top" |Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

• Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
• Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs
• Various Artists – Willie Nelson American Outlaw (Live At Bridgestone Arena/2019)
• Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross

• Arca – KiCk i
• Ela Minus – Acts of Rebellion
• Yaeji – What We Drew
• Actress – Karma & Desire

| valign="top" |Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess

• Ben Harper – Winter Is For Lovers
• Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs
• Jason Molina – Eight Gates
• Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter

• clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned
• Little Simz – Drop 6
• The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominiques Nosebleed
• Naeem – Startisha

| valign="top" |Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven – We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

• Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Azymuth JID004
• Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons
• John Carroll Kirby – My Garden
• Raul Midón – The Mirror
• Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet!

• Bad Bunny – El Último Tour Del Mundo
• The Mavericks – En Español
• Buscabulla – Regresa
• Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire

| valign="top" |Architects – “Animals” (from For Those That Wish to Exist)

• HUM – Inlet
• Ghostemane – Anti-Icon
• Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
• Pyrrhon – Abscess Time

• Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
• Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions
• Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
• Moses Sumney – Græ

| valign="top" |IDLES – Ultra Mono

• Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
• METZ – Atlas Vending
• Viagra Boys – Common Sense
• Porridge Radio – Every Bad

• Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun
• Robert Glasper – “Better Than I Imagined (feat. H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello)”
• Son Little – aloha
• Orion Sun – Hold Space For Me
• Steve Arrington – Down To The Lowest Terms

| valign="top" |J Dilla – Donuts (Jelly Edition)

• Pylon – Pylon Box
• Hiroshi Yoshimura – GREEN
• Pixies – Bossanova 30th Anniversary Reissue
• Motorhead – Ace of Spades 40th Anniversary
• Elliott Smith – Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition
• Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump 20th Anniversary Collection

• King Krule – Man Alive!
• Bartees Strange – "Mustang" (from Live Forever)
• Bob Mould – Blue Hearts
• Caroline Rose – Superstar

| valign="top" |Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling

• Lecrae – Restoration
• Jon Hopkins – “Singing Bowl (Ascension)”
• Thad Cockrell – If In Case You Feel The Same
• Wande – EXIT

• Black Pumas (ATO Records) “Colors” – Samsung Galaxy S20
• Brittany Howard (ATO Records) “You’ll Never Walk Alone” – Johnnie Walker’s #KeepWalking Campaign
• Blood Orange (Domino Recording Co.) “Tuesday Feeling (Choose to Stay)” – Season four of HBO's Insecure
• IDLES (Partisan Records) “Grounds” – Watch Dogs: Legion

| valign="top" |Altin Gün – “Ordunun Dereleri”

Songhoy Blues – Optimisme

• Antibalas – Fu Chronicles
• Bebel Gilberto – Agora
• Emel – The Tunis Diaries

• Bonny Light Horseman
• Overcoats
• Arlo McKinley
• Orion Sun

| valign="top" |Soccer Mommy – Color Theory limited edition back to school binder

• Black Pumas – Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition)
• Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately vinyl
• Pylon – Pylon Box [CD Box Set]
• IDLES – Ultra Mono

• SoundExchange
• Secretly Distribution
• TuneCore
• The Orchard

| valign="top" |Sub Pop

• Partisan Records
• Warp
• Stones Throw Records
• Ninja Tune

• Sacred Bones Records
• Matador Records
• Ghostly International
• Rough Trade Records

| valign="top" |Daptone Records

• Innovative Leisure
• Fire Talk Records
• International Anthem
• Hardly Art
• Oh Boy Records

• Jewel Runners, LLC – Run the Jewels x Cyberpunk2077 “No Save Point”
• Phoebe Bridgers (Dead Oceans) – Punisher
• Light In The Attic – Social Media & Digital Marketing
• Perfume Genius (Matador Records) – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately Campaign

| valign="top" |FKA twigs – “Sad Day"

• Perfume Genius – “Describe”
• Phoebe Bridgers – “Savior Complex”
• Run the Jewels – “Ooh La La”
• Christine and the Queens – “La vita nuova”
• ford. – “Fruit&Sun”

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! colspan="2" align="center" | Multiple Wins

| rowspan="2" |5

! colspan="2" align="center" | Multiple Nominations

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| rowspan="2" |5

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! colspan="2" align="center" | Multiple Wins

| 4

| 3

| rowspan="3" | 2

! colspan="2" align="center" | Multiple Nominations

| rowspan="2" | 8

| rowspan="2" |7

| 6

| rowspan="3" |5

| rowspan="6" |4

| rowspan="5" |3