MNRK Music Group promotions & new hire MNRK Music Group announces the promotions of Tasha Stoute to Sr. Director, Urban Publicity and Vinny Geonnetti to Director, Artist Management, A&R, Publishing. In addition, the company has hired JY Wil... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Artists Issues The creation of black music departments meant bigger advances, larger recording budgets, more coordinated national promotion, and better royalty rates. However, artists still didn’t own their masters, meani... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Is It Black or Urban Radio? Since its invention in the 1940s black oriented radio had been the chief vehicles for promoting all forms of black music, from R&B to jazz, gospel to funk. For much of its history these stations had bee... Read More...
Entertainment One promotes Andre Howard & Abe Rasheed Entertainment One (“eOne”) promotes Andre Howard to VP Digital Marketing and Ebrahim “Abe” Rasheed to Director, A&R & Artist Development. With nearly 20 years of experience, Howard joined eOne in Sep... Read More...
Def Jam elavates Noah Preston to SVP of A&R and Alexander Edwards to VP of A&R Def Jam Recordings' EVP of A&R Steven Victor has strengthened his team with the promotion of Noah Preston to Senior Vice President, A&R and the appointment of Alexander "AE" Edwards as Vice President, A... Read More...
Radio One VP Promotions… Radio One, Inc. announced two nice promotions in its local radio group -- Mitch Galvin is upped to VP/GM of Radio One Cincinnati and David Glenn Smith, a.k.a. "Hurricane Dave" is elevated to VP of Programming f... Read More...