Columbia Records In The News

Leslie Cooper, Marisa Di Frisco and Lauren Holman promoted to new roles at Virgin Music

Universal Music Group's Virgin Music Group promotes three executives at the company

Sony Music Entertainment UK relaunches Epic Records in the UK, led by Sarah Lockhart

Epic Records UK will operate alongside other Sony Music labels in the UK including RCA, Columbia, and Ministry of Sound

Kakao officially SM Entertainment’s largest shareholder with 39.9% stake, as HYBE holds onto 8.8%

News culminates months-long corporate battle against SM rival HYBE to take control of the K-Pop agency

Kakao launched a new virtual K-Pop group called MAVE, and the first single has already generated 20m streams on Spotify

Virtual group also 172,000 subscribers on YouTube

HYBE to sell $435m stake in SM Entertainment

Music giant to sell 15.8% stake in SM

Kakao Entertainment plots global expansion via the US, strikes partnership with Sony’s Columbia Records

Partnership includes 'global management' of rising K-Pop stars, IVE

Lindsey Lanier appointed VP, Creative, and Desi O’Meara named Director, Creative at Kobalt

Kobalt today announced the addition of two new creatives to its global publishing team

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