Spotify Hires Empire’s Brose Royce To Lead Us Artist Marketing


        

 

 

Spotify has recruited a substitution for long-lasting head of creative relations Steve Savoca in the US.

The elite organization has recruited Brose Royce from Empire Records in a key position.

His official title is Head Of Creative Relations North America, covering both the US and Canada.

Brose has been VP of Top 40 at Universal and Warner Records in Los Angeles since 2015 – a position he acknowledged following a close to 5-year residency in radio advancements at individual UMG name bunch Interscope Geffen A&M.

MBW is informed that Brose (envisioned inset) has been by and by contracted as a component of another industry relations group being assembled by Roy Carter, who joined Spotify as Global Head Of Creator Services in June 2017.

One of Carter’s key errands is to slow the flood of US craftsman selective arrangements occurring on rival stages Apple Music and TIDAL.

Preceding joining Interscope Geffen A&M in 2012, Brose worked for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in advertising.

His arrangement in the US comes as Apple recruits Universal Music UK business MD Ryan Rose – who has been inside supplanted at the major by Island’s David Hawkes.

Gushing administrations have done really well out of previous senior UMG staff – from Interscope’s Jimmy Ivine and Larry Jackson (Apple Music) to Pat Shah and Francis Keeling (Spotify).

Steve Savoca left Spotify following five years in July, completing his residency as Global Head of Label Relations. It is comprehended that regarded UK-based executive Kevin Brown has accepted Savoca’s accountability for ex-US/CA name relations.