On the A&R front,  veteran A&R Executive Joie Manda joins Warner Bros. in California after leading the Independent Label Group for Warner Music in New York. Tim Byrne moves to SYCO LA from London to be Creative Director and to help launch X-Factor. At Sony’s two main labels, there’s been a bit of activity in A&R with the addition of Ankur Malhotra who joins Epic from Capitol, while Andrew McInnes & Omar Grant both exit the department and Jay Harren exits Columbia and Renee Bell exits Sony Music Nashville. Over in the UK, Simon McCulloch & Alastair Webber both join Island, while Adrian Jolly joins Mercury.

Lots of A&R personnel moves to report: fourteen A&R Executives left their jobs within the last eight weeks while only five new A&R Execs were hired. Among the transitions were Shawn Barron (Atlantic), Steve Allen, Ben Durling and Bill Holland (Warner Bros.), Sam Mumford (RCA), Ericka Grayson (A&M), Durius Jones (Capitol), David Wright and Angelo Sanders (Def Jam) and Jamie Nelson (Mercury).

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There have been massive changes on the A&R front over the last few months. Jeff Levin joins Atlantic while Sunny Lee joins Motown and Tom Lee joins Mercury. Max Gousse, David Wright and Angelo Sanders all join Island’s West Coast office. We’re always sad to report exits from the A&R World. Kenny ‘Tic’ Salcido and Joseph Weinberger exit Warner Bros., Lorne Behrman exits Blue Note, Susan Riley exits Word in Nashville and Steve Buckingham exits Vanguard. – A&R registry