INDEPENDENT POWERHOUSE ADDS THREE, UPS FIVE
EARNS BILLBOARD POWER PLAYER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NASHVILLE, TENN. – History-making independent label Big Loud Records strengthens its awarded executive team today, promoting five and hiring three.
VP of Business Affairs, Jeff Tanner, VP of Sync & Brand Partnerships, Paul Logan, and VP of International, Brianne Deslippe all add to their titles, with Tanner and Logan rising to SVP of Business Affairs and Sync & Brand Partnerships respectively, and Deslippe rising to SVP, Global Marketing & Strategy.
Simultaneously, innovative digital expert H. Read Davis rises to VP, Digital and creative architect Tori Johnson rises to VP, Creative.
New additions Serena Lloyd, Stefanie Carter, and Lucy Bartozzi start new roles with the company effective immediately. Lloyd joins as VP of Human Resources following previous HR roles with Weber Shandwick, Concord, Ketchum, and more. Carter becomes VP of Finance after time with the Nashville Predators, Live Nation, Nissan, and Mars Petcare. Bartozzi adds to Records’ marketing department as VP, Marketing with past stops at Round Hill Records, mtheory, and Red Bull Records.
The Big Loud executive team has earned recognition across the industry for its boundary-pushing, record-setting work, named to elite classes like Billboard 40 Under 40 (SVP / GM Patch Culbertson (’22), SVP of Radio Promotion Stacy Blythe (’21), CEO / Partner Seth England (’14)), Leadership Music (COO Austen Adams (’19), Blythe (’23)), Variety Hitmakers (England and partner / producer / President of A&R, Joey Moi (’22)), and more. Last month, key members of the Big Loud executive team – partners England, Moi, and Craig Wiseman, as well as Blythe and SVP of Marketing Candice Watkins – were honored as both Billboard Indie Power Players and Billboard Country Power Players. CEO / partner England was named the inaugural peer-voted Country Power Players’ Choice Award recipient, an industry-wide nod honoring the executive that voters believe made the most impact across the country music business over the past year.
ABOUT BIG LOUD RECORDS
Big Loud Records’ head-turning success story began in 2015. Counting over 25 billion global audio streams, 18 #1 U.S. airplay and 25 #1 Canadian airplay hits, and 70+ RIAA certified titles, the Big Loud Records roster is home to genre standouts Morgan Wallen, Jake Owen, Lauren Alaina, HARDY, ERNEST, MacKenzie Porter, Larry Fleet, Charles Wesley Godwin, Stephen Wilson Jr., Dallas Smith, Griffen Palmer, Shawn Austin, Lily Rose, Jake Worthington, Ashley Cooke, and Lauren Watkins. In 2019, the cutting-edge label partnered with award-winning songwriter Nicolle Galyon to form all-female label Songs & Daughters, signing critically acclaimed Iowa darling, Hailey Whitters. Records was honored as the #1 Billboard Hot Country Songs label in 2021 + 2022, the 2022 MusicRow Label Group of the Year, and was named Platinum Label at the 2021 + 2023 CRS/Country Aircheck Awards. Learn more about Big Loud Records here, and connect with us on social media here.
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