Sony Music Publishing Chairman/ CEO Jon Platt has been named the 2024 Grammy “Salute to Business Icons” honoree, the Recording Academy and Clive Davis introduced on Thursday. Platt can be honored on the Pre-Grammy Gala — aka the “Clive Get together” — on Feb. 3, 2024, the night time earlier than the Grammys.
“One of the crucial influential figures within the trade, Jon has persistently set the bar for management in music,” mentioned Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “His ongoing dedication to fairness, his dedication to high quality, and his advocacy for artists throughout all crafts and genres have been an inspiration to music leaders in every single place. We sit up for an unimaginable night devoted to honoring his unimaginable influence.”
“Jon Platt is likely one of the music trade’s most illustrious leaders and I’m thrilled that he can be this 12 months’s Salute to Business Icons honoree,” mentioned Clive Davis. “Jon’s longtime trailblazing dedication to supporting songwriters throughout the music spectrum in addition to his staunch dedication to advocacy, range and equality within the music enterprise are exemplary. Artists and the trade at giant are lucky to have his perception and keenness on the helm.”
* Common Music Publishing Group has signed British producer/songwriter Danny L. Harle to an unique international administration settlement. A founding member of the influential PC Music collective, he has labored extensively with Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Clairo, Rina Sawayama, PinkPantheress, Lil Uzi Vert, and most not too long ago co-written and co-produced Dua Lipa’s model new hit “Houdini,” her highest debuting single on Billboard 100 up to now.
Harle mentioned, “I used to be after all impressed by Jody Gerson’s observe file however solely on assembly her, Jenn Knoepfle and David Grey at Common Music Publishing was I satisfied that I had come across that uncommon factor within the music trade; individuals who care about music being good in addition to profitable.”
David Grey and Jennifer Knoepfle, UMPG Co-Heads of A&R, added: “Danny is a uncommon expertise who can work throughout genres, has nice musical style and has an outstanding rapport with all of the artists that work with him. We’re so excited to be a part of his continued progress as a producer and an artist.”
*British dance music veteran David Dollimore introduced the launch of Dysfunction Data, a brand new “insignia for digital music counterculture,” in partnership with Geffen Data. “This powerhouse alliance will function a house to associate with and signal a multiplicity of thrilling entities – DJs, producers, artists, manufacturers and labels who’re defining the worldwide sound of tomorrow,” the announcement states. It additionally introduced a partnership with Manchester’s The Warehouse Challenge forming WHP Data, a imprint “harnessing sounds straight from the concourse of probably the most esteemed dancefloors globally.”
Dollimore was a key stakeholder within the vaunted digital music firm Ministry of Sound and, upon its acquisition by Sony Music UK, was named president of the RCA Label Group within the UK. “Dysfunction can be an incubator for the way forward for dance music and redefine the panorama as we see it,” he mentioned within the announcement. “This label can be a portal to the underground membership world, distilling future tendencies for mass consumption. We can be main a era forging different routes to the highest, exterior the confines of dated conventional constructions. Collectively Tom March, Wealthy, Sam and the spectacular workforce at The Warehouse Challenge and I, have the community, the platform and the worldwide infrastructure with Common to make this probably the most profitable partnerships in dance music.”
*10K Tasks introduced a number of appointments in its government suite: Blake Brown-Grakal has been promoted to Normal Counsel, Samuel Cohen has been promoted to the newly created function of Normal Supervisor on the label and Max Gore, who joins from Warner Music, has been named Chief Monetary Officer. All three executives can be primarily based in 10K’s Los Angeles headquarters.
“As we sit up for a brand new section of progress at 10K, reinforcing our core government workforce is essential,” mentioned Elliot Grainge Founder and CEO of 10K Tasks. “Max brings with him properly over a decade of finance expertise, the bulk inside the Warner system. Blake’s facility in speaking with artists and their groups on enterprise issues has been a gamechanger for us over these previous three years. And Sam has been at 10K for the reason that very starting, serving to to information each chapter of our growth on the label. This government workforce helps place us for the longer term as we proceed to interrupt new floor at 10K.”
*300 Leisure has promoted Lallie Jones to Vice President of Advertising and Josh D’Amore to Senior Vice President, Digital & Streaming, the corporate’s co-presidents, Rayna Bass and Selim Bouab, introduced Thursday. Jones will proceed to spearhead advertising and marketing for artists resembling PinkPantheress, $NOT, Phony Ppl, and others; D’Amore oversees commerce, digital technique, and streaming for all the roster. Each are veterans of the corporate: D’Amore joined in 2014 and Jones was the corporate’s first worker, becoming a member of in 2013.
Concerning these promotions, Bass and Bouab commented, “Lallie and Josh are each extremely invaluable members of the 300 Leisure workforce. They’ve been an important a part of a few of our largest success tales, and can undoubtedly play essential roles in lots of extra to return. We are able to’t anticipate what 2024 has in retailer as our workforce solely continues to develop and evolve with unimaginable vitality and enthusiasm.”
*Oak View Group has introduced the appointment of Francesca Bodie as chief working officer (COO). On this newly established place, Bodie’s function will enhance from capital growth, mergers, and acquisitions to a concentrate on new income streams together with overseeing all day-to-day operations for OVG globally, in addition to main OVG’s government committee of extremely various and achieved executives into this subsequent stage of progress.
*Warner Chappell Music has introduced the appointment of Jessica Entner to the newly created function of Vice President, Artistic Sync Technique. Entner can be targeted on enterprise growth, partnering with key stakeholders to grasp WCM’s writers’ inventive objectives and dealing straight with businesses and types to showcase important focus areas of the writer’s huge catalog. Primarily based in Los Angeles, she is going to report back to WCM’s Keith D’Arcy, SVP, Sync and Artistic Companies, and work carefully with Wealthy Robinson, EVP, International Synchronization and Media Unique Music.
A Los Angeles native, Entner’s profession spans twenty years, beginning at Maverick Publishing in ’99. She additionally labored as a contract on-set manufacturing supervisor for a number of prime manufacturing businesses like Radical Media, DNA, and FM Rocks, supporting the manufacturing for iconic music movies like Missy Elliott’s “Work It.” In 2003, she transitioned into the world of advert music manufacturing and supervision at Elias Arts and went on to carry executive-level positions at music corporations HUM, The Lodge, and Large Music. In 2016, she based JEM, a music firm targeted on guiding inventive technique and manufacturing for promoting businesses and types.
*Paul Hitchman has been promoted to the function of COO at AWAL. He’s primarily based in AWAL’s London workplace and oversees the UK workforce and worldwide workplaces, together with AWAL’s international operations. He’ll proceed to report back to CEO Lonny Olinick and can proceed to work with him and AWAL’s senior administration workforce on international technique, growth of the corporate’s artist roster, in addition to progress of the enterprise worldwide. He additionally manages relationships with key companions at The Orchard and Sony. He joined AWAL as Managing Director in February 2012.
“Because the day I began at AWAL, Paul has been the last word associate,” Olnick mentioned. “He’s an government who balances strategic and visionary pondering with a singular means to drive execution. He has been important to AWAL’s each success, and I couldn’t be extra thrilled to proceed our partnership as he steps into this new COO function.”
*TuneCore has appointed Brian Miller as the corporate’s new Chief Income Officer. Primarily based in New York, he’ll report back to TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson. A 15-year trade veteran, he was most not too long ago Chief Development Officer at Angi.
Gleeson commented, “I typically inform my workforce that ‘if our artists are profitable, then we’re profitable’ and because of this, we’ve advanced TuneCore’s focus round two key priorities – to assist our artists ‘make higher music’ and to assist them ‘develop into higher identified’. Brian’s hands-on expertise scaling SaaS companies, forging dynamic partnerships and main progress methods—alongside along with his ardour for creating unbiased artists—make him a useful addition to our senior administration workforce as we innovate to drive artist progress.”
*Australia-based firm Jaxsta Ltd. has modified its title to Vinyl Group. The corporate’s ticker code will change from JXT to VNL. This ticker code change and firm title are anticipated to be efficient on the ASX from the graduation of buying and selling on Tuesday, December 5. The Vinyl Group perform as an umbrella model that comes with the corporate’s three current manufacturers: Jaxsta, Vampr and Vinyl.com. Vinyl Group’s management workforce consists of CEO Josh Simons, CFO Jorge Nigaglioni, CMO Alli Galloway, CPO Jessy Trengove, and Tech Lead Chris Lowe.
Simons mentioned: “It’s an enormous privilege to have the ability to usher on this new period within the journey of three improbable companies, every now residing below the newly rebranded Vinyl Group. This new id is greater than only a title change. It represents a unified imaginative and prescient for our future – a future the place our know-how and merchandise are extra interconnected, providing an enriched expertise for our shoppers and customers.”
