Via WMG: Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced the appointments of Aton Ben-Horin (@Aton) as Director of Worldwide Rhythm & Pop A&R and Latoya Lee (@MissLatoyaLee) as Manager of Worldwide Urban A&R. In these newly created positions, Ben-Horin and Lee will report to Mike Caren (@MikeCaren), President, Worldwide A&R. The two executives will provide additional…

Via Hypebot: Ron Fair, EVP and Chief Creative Officer at Virgin Records and the New Music Seminar are looking for the best new A&R people.  Fair will select twelve finalists and conduct a live chat interview via the hot new Shindig video chat platform in mid-April. The 12 will interact with each other and the veteran music…

Warner Music Group’s publishing wing, Warner/Chappell Music, has named Jake Ottmann its new senior vice president of A&R, charged with finding, signing and guiding new artists as well as bringing established artists into WMG’s fold. “I trust Jake to deliver and, more importantly, so do artists. I know he will be a superb addition to…

Imran Majid has had a very impressive rise in the Music Business world, and he is now busy running the A&R Department at Columbia Records as the Vice President. It took a lot of sacrifice and prioritizing for him to get there though. It was hardly an easy road. There is no set path to…

Mumford & Sons manager Adam Tudhope has teamed up with Gotye’s manager, Danny Rogers, to launch their first foray into music publishing, And Publishing. The company, which will operate from offices in London and Sydney, has been formed in partnership with Kobalt, who will handle administration and synchronization (excluding North America), as well as provide…

In A&R, not everyone works in the same capacity. Some are better at spotting talent, while others are more capabledeveloping that talent. Often, two different A&R personnel will partner up to bring both separate talents together for one artist. Richard Griffiths, who reps One Direction and is a Partner of Modest! Management, used to run manyRecord Labels and worked prominently in A&R. His experience taught him that he was better…

Renman Live! returns this Friday, February 22nd, at 10am PST to chat with V.P. of A&R at Columbia Records, Imran Majid, along with Kyle Wilensky from CAA.  We will be talking about Artist Development and Agents.  If we have time, we will sneak in some wisdom from the good Dr. Bob Rotella! [RenmanMB]