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Common Music UK has reshaped its frontline operations with a brand new Viewers & Media Division and an unconfirmed variety of layoffs. Right here’s the newest.
A memo from CEO & Chairman David Joseph confirms a number of modifications at Common Music UK. Island and EMI might be mixed below the Island EMI Label Group, alongside the Polydor Label Group which contains Capital and 0207 Def Jam. The transfer follows the restructuring of Common Music’s operations in the USA below frontline labels Republic Corps and Interscope Capitol Labels Group.
“Music is dynamic, and consistently altering, each creatively and commercially,” provides David Joseph within the memo obtained by Music Week. “Artists must finest and most agile companions by their facet. They want a house that can assist them harness the alternatives of as we speak and tomorrow, whereas additionally guarding in opposition to new dangers as they emerge.”
“As an organization, we should proceed to be forward-looking, progressive, and daring. Growing artists now requires extra creativity and endurance than ever earlier than. As our business continues to evolve, we have now been methods to strengthen our labels’ capabilities to deepen artist and fan connections. You might have seen a few of the modifications occurring globally throughout UMG, most notably within the US with Republic Corps and Interscope Capitol Labels Group.”
The memo confirms that some roles might be impacted by the restructure, but it surely doesn’t particularly affirm who’s impacted. The brand new construction will take impact on October 1 with “two new powerhouse frontline label teams, every house to a number of labels all with artistic autonomy.”
The newly mixed Island EMI Label Group might be helmed by Louis Bloom as President. In the meantime, the newly shaped Polydor Label Group might be led by Ben Mortimer as President. Polydor Label Group will embrace a reimagined Capitol with Jo Charrington as President and 0207 Def Jam, with Alec Boateng serving as President. Laura Monks and Tom Lewis will proceed to guide Decca as a standalone label specializing in classical, jazz, instrumental, folks, soul, and digital music.
With the launch of the Viewers and Media Division to serve all artists and labels, Rebecca Allen will step into the function as President. “Becky and I’ve spent a whole lot of time discussing this imaginative and prescient to create one thing revolutionary—an business first the place each sort of media is seamlessly built-in,” Joseph continues within the memo. “We’re assembling an elite crew making this our largest division.”
“The Viewers and Media Division will revolutionize how we ship for our artists and change into a brand new heart of excellence at Common Music UK alongside, amongst others, the award-winning partnerships crew at Globe and a brand new mixed eCommerce and CRM crew,” Joseph says of the brand new division.
“Whereas the overwhelming majority of our crew will proceed to be part of our enterprise going ahead, some roles are impacted by the proposed structural modifications,” Joseph continues. “It saddens me that we should half methods with some unimaginable colleagues who’ve been instrumental in our journey.”
