![]() ![]() She put together a national team of 30 writers and photographers for LunchBox to foster a new generation in music journalism.ĭavies’s life includes endless cups of coffee, being glued to her laptop, going to endless gigs and tossing up between yoga and surfing in the mornings.ĭavies joins TMN’s Sydney team which includes features editor Elise Ferrari and charts editor Peter Tuskan, as well as news editor Zanda Wilson who joined after the magazine’s new owner Jaden Social took over last year. She also served time at the ABC and Grove Magazine.ĭavies set up LunchBox to give acts in Sydney a platform after the live scene started to shrivel following the lockouts. Sony, meanwhile, acquired Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo Records - which had begun as a joint venture with UMG and has been on a hot streak this year with Lil Durk and Rod Wave - as a new frontline label in June.Ī rep for Columbia Records did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Growing up in a musical family, Davies has had an extensive background in digital music journalism, as founder and national editor of LunchBox TV and one-time assistant editor at. This year, Universal poached several high-ranking Sony execs to run two of its flagship labels, hiring Columbia’s co-heads of A&R Imran Majid and Justin Eshak as Island Records co-CEOs and RCA executive vp A&R Tunji Balogun to fill the top role at Def Jam. It’s the latest in a high-level back and forth between Sony and UMG. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 dating back to 2018’s Love Yourself: Tear (chart dated June 2, 2018), Love Yourself: Answer (Sept. As well, their remix of Jason Derulo and Jawsh 685’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” helped send the song to No. 5, 2020), “Butter” (for 10 weeks beginning June 5), “Permission to Dance” (July 24), “My Universe” with Coldplay (Oct. ![]() 1 records on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, all of which came in a little over a year: “Dynamite” (for three weeks beginning with the chart dated Sept. Their songs have also combined for 10.6 billion U.S. ![]() (Si-hyuk helped found BTS in 2010, overseeing the superstar group’s career in the decade that followed.) Si-hyuk and his team have, however, formed a close relationship with Grainge, the sources say.īTS’s attorney Debbie White, of Loeb & Loeb, first introduced Grainge to Yoon and HYBE president DJ Kim at UMG’s Grammy party in 2019, and subsequently helped negotiate distribution deals for some of HYBE’s other K-pop acts with UMG’s Republic, Ingrooves and Interscope.Ĭan Big Hit & Universal Music Create the Next BTS on US TV?īTS has earned 10.4 million equivalent album units in the U.S., according to MRC Data. marketing and promotion and has been credited as BTS’s label distributor on singles. And although Columbia chairman and CEO Ron Perry traveled to Korea many times and collaborated as a songwriter on BTS’s summer hit “Butter,” sources say Perry never met Si-hyuk in the time since BTS signed with that deal. ![]() Scooter Braun - who sold his company Ithaca Holdings to HYBE in April - also helped seal the deal thanks to his close relationships with Grainge and Lenzo Yoon, with whom he shares HYBE America’s co-CEO role, sources say.īTS’s current agreement with Sony, which was signed in 2018, technically runs through The Orchard, but Columbia provides U.S. 21) with YG Entertainment and Kiswe to launch a new global live streaming platform. Universal and HYBE also announced a new partnership on Thursday (Oct. Inside the Business of BTS - And the Challenges Ahead ![]()
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