Category: A & R

Warner Music Expands A&R Team

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…


New Music Seminar To Choose Top 6 A&R “Young Guns”

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/Chappell Names Jake Ottmann SVP of A&R

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…


Man Vs. Machine — Data Science and the Future of A&R

As the music industry wrestles with how to find the next big hit, research A&R — which uses data to identify artists’ movement in the marketplace — is rapidly gaining importance compared to traditional on-the-ground A&R. In this panel moderated by data scientist Zanab Hussain, Sony ATV Director of A&R Jacob Fain and Next Big…


Breaking Down Traits of a Quality A&R Executive with Imran Majid, VP of A&R at Columbia Records

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 on New Publishing Venture With Gotye Manger Danny Rogers

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…


Working as an A&R and Evaluating Talent with Richard Griffiths

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…


A&R Talk With VP Of A&R At Epic Records Malik Rasheed

The A&R Report was granted the pleasure of getting to know Vice President of A&R at Epic Records, Malik Rasheed. We were granted the opportunity to interact with the humble executive in his LA Office, gaining some insight on his new journey at Epic Records; in addition, to his future goals and aspirations at the label. …


Renman Live! with A&R Executive Imran Majid & Kyle Wilensky from CAA

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]


Jamie N Commons Signs to KIDinaKORNER/Interscope

Jamie N Commons has signed a record deal with producer Alex Da Kid’s (Eminem/Rihanna) Interscope imprint KIDinaKORNER, which will in turn go through Fiction Records in the UK. With an EP release due this spring, Jamie will cement his growing reputation as an exciting and original British talent. Alex da Kid – “Every so often you are introduced to an artist…