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Q4 of finds RCA Records rulers Peter Edge and Tom Corson making good on the promise of their unique partnership....
RCA Records’ Peter Edge and Tom Corson on Why the Label Downsized and its Place in Sony’s Big Picture (Q&A)
This interview first appeared in the Oct.
14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
The music industry has posted 18 consecutive weeks of positive sales with album sales up 3 percent from 2010 and digital tracks up 11 percent.
Edge, president/COO Tom Corson and Pitts most The A&R GuruIn an interview last August after being appointed CEO of RCA Music Group, Pet.
So after years and years of steady decline, it’s clear why a music exec would happily take this moment to break with the past.
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New RCA Records CEO Peter Edge, 50, even hesitates to call his company a record label.
After all, it would be foolish to limit a label’s scope to the business of selling records or to use a term as outdated as the concept itself.
“My vision for RCA is to be more of a music company,” he says.
“You have to reinvent, and that’s what we’re doing.” Indeed, after a tumultuous year that saw a new leader in Sony Music CE