Fred Gillham has been promoted to the newly created place of Chief Working Officer at Harmony Label Group, the recorded music division of US-headquartered music firm Harmony.
Reporting to Harmony Label Group Chief Government Tom Becci, “Gillham serves as an integral a part of the group’s senior govt crew,” the corporate mentioned on Wednesday (September 17).
In his new position as COO, Gillham is immediately answerable for Harmony’s label providers groups.
Gillham might be based mostly in Harmony’s Los Angeles workplace.
In accordance with Harmony Label Group, its providers crew “is a key differentiator within the market, particularly relating to the collaborative expertise for artists, and their groups, to realize their targets and maximize the attain of releases — scale with out compromising on management”.
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“Fred has the unusual means to grasp and anticipate the wants of the artists he serves and develop the required plans and techniques to assist them obtain their targets.”
Tom Becci, Harmony Label Group
The press launch asserting his promotion on Wednesday (September 17) added that Gillham’s crew “serves as an extension of Harmony’s labels” to “present the attain that permits the labels to keep up world duty for his or her launch campaigns”.
Harmony’s labels embrace Harmony Data, Simple Eye Sound, Fearless Data, Loma Vista Recordings, PULSE Data, Rounder Data, Harmony Theatricals Recordings, and Craft Recordings, in addition to the KIDZ BOP model.
Gillham joined Harmony in 2019 as Managing Director of the UK, opening Harmony’s first UK Label Group workplace.
He oversaw quite a few profitable artist campaigns together with Ghost, Chase Atlantic, The Offspring, Tears for Fears, Tommy Richman, and Sierra Ferrell.
Earlier than becoming a member of Harmony, Gillham spent over a decade at Common Music Group, the place he was VP, Worldwide, managing world campaigns inside UMG throughout a wide range of repertoire from each UMG labels and their companions.
“Fred has the unusual means to grasp and anticipate the wants of the artists he serves and develop the required plans and techniques to assist them obtain their targets,” mentioned Tom Becci, Chief Government, Harmony Label Group.
“This means, mixed along with his expertise for constructing nice groups, makes him completely fitted to this new position.”
Gillham added: “It’s been an unbelievable journey since becoming a member of Harmony in 2019. We’ve got efficiently proved the idea of our world method to advertising and marketing and I’m excited to push that even additional on this new position.
“It’s been an unbelievable journey since becoming a member of Harmony in 2019. We’ve got efficiently proved the idea of our world method to advertising and marketing and I’m excited to push that even additional on this new position.”
Fred Gillham
“Our setup and method are completely distinctive available in the market, and the mission is to make use of that to be much more aggressive, each in scaling up our frontline enterprise, and persevering with to develop our already best-in-class method to catalogue advertising and marketing.
“I have to thank Tom for this unbelievable alternative. I’m very enthusiastic about the way forward for Harmony Label Group.”
Elsewhere at Harmony Label Group, in September final 12 months, the Harmony Data and FantasyData manufacturers merged underneath the unified Harmony Data banner, led by Co-Presidents Margi Cheske and Mark Williams.
Along with Harmony Data, Harmony Label Group’s energetic labels embrace Fearless Data, Loma Vista Recordings, Rounder Data, Simple Eye Sound, Harmony Data, Harmony Jazz, and PULSE Data.
PULSE Data was launched as a joint-venture label with PULSE Music Group in June 2023, and has seen success within the US and globally this 12 months with the Tommy Richman hit Million Greenback Child (PULSE Data/ ISO Supremacy).
Harmony Label Group’s historic labels are managed by its Craft Recordings crew, and embrace storied imprints like Fania, Independiente, Milestone, Musart, Nitro, Pablo, Status, Riverside, Savoy, Specialty, Stax, Telarc, Varèse Sarabande, Vee-Jay, Victory and Wind-up.
Harmony’s catalog includes 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings. The corporate works with greater than 125,000 artists and songwriters.Music Enterprise Worldwide
