Harmony Music Publishing has appointed Adam Salomon as Senior Director of A&R.
Salomon transitions to this function from Chosen Music, a London-based music administration firm, the place he led the A&R division.
Salomon performed a key function in signing and managing globally acknowledged artists and writers at Chosen Music. There, he managed a various roster of rising skills and established songwriters, together with Saltwives (related to Zayn, Sia, Kygo, and BlackPink) and rising star Caity Baser (EMI).
Amongst his achievements had been working with Brit Award nominee A7S, identified for hit dance tracks Breaking Me and Your Love with Matter, which have collectively gained over 10 billion streams.
He additionally managed the Ivor Novello-nominated Swedish duo NEIKED, identified for his or her world hits Sexual and Higher Days, which have garnered over 2 billion streams. NEIKED signed with Harmony Music Publishing final 12 months.
“Having received to know Adam over the previous few years, he has quickly grow to be an unimaginable A&R, a tour de power who thinks outdoors the field and has an infectious ardour for what he does.”
Kim Frankiewicz, Harmony Music Publishing
Salomon, who’s initially from Sweden, has signed and developed Scandinavian artists and songwriters, together with Miriam Bryant, Thomas Stenström, and NEIKED (Victor Rådström). He has additionally held numerous A&R and administration roles throughout each unbiased and main labels in Sweden, together with Common Music Sweden. He led the Svenska Inspelningar label, Common’s Scandinavian frontline imprint, and residential to the late Avicii.
He additionally served as Senior A&R Supervisor at EMI Music Sweden and spent appreciable time within the US, significantly at Capitol Data in Los Angeles.
At Harmony Music Publishing, he’ll work out of London and report back to Kim Frankiewicz, the corporate’s EVP Worldwide A&R.
“Having received to know Adam over the previous few years, he has quickly grow to be an unimaginable A&R, a tour de power who thinks outdoors the field and has an infectious ardour for what he does. I’m delighted he’s becoming a member of our improbable staff of A&Rs, serving to form the subsequent chapter for our artists,” mentioned Frankiewicz.
Salomon additionally commented on his appointment, saying, “I really feel thrilled and privileged to grow to be part of the Harmony household. Having labored with Kim and the staff in my earlier capability as an artist supervisor, each domestically in London and globally, I’ve seen firsthand what a unprecedented group of pros they’re. Harmony’s roster is likely one of the most dynamic and thrilling within the trade, and I’m desirous to contribute to their ongoing success and legacy.
“Having labored with Kim and the staff in my earlier capability as an artist supervisor, each domestically in London and globally, I’ve seen firsthand what a unprecedented group of pros they’re. Harmony’s roster is likely one of the most dynamic and thrilling within the trade, and I’m desirous to contribute to their ongoing success and legacy.”
Adam Salomon, Harmony Music Publishing
Harmony Music Publishing is a worldwide, unbiased music writer providing inventive assist by its A&R, Synchronization, and Advertising and marketing groups, together with administration from its in-house Copyright, Licensing, Earnings Monitoring, and Royalty departments.
Primarily based in Nashville, with places of work in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Berlin, and Melbourne, Harmony Music Publishing owns or manages over 800,000 copyrighted musical works. Its roster of songwriters contains The 1975, Alanis Morissette producer Glen Ballard, Daft Punk, Lori McKenna, and Oh Marvel, amongst many others.
The writer additionally manages the catalogs of legendary songwriters similar to Benny Blanco, Phil Collins, Willie Colon, Think about Dragons, Cyndi Lauper, Jimmy Napes, Pink Floyd, and Ryan Tedder.
In 2020, Harmony invested in PULSE Music Group, creating an unique three way partnership to additional develop frontline pop hits. PULSE’s roster contains James Blake, Cordae, Trevor Daniel, El-P, Brent Faiyez, FNZ, Tyler Johnson, Kehlani, Bonnie McKee, OG Parker, OZ, Wealthy The Child, Starrah, Ty Dolla $ign, and YEBBA. Final 12 months, Harmony and PULSE launched a brand new label known as PULSE Data.
Harmony additional expanded to Australia and New Zealand with the launch of Melbourne-based Harmony Music Publishing ANZ after buying Australian music writer Native Tongue in 2022.
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