![]() Major labels don’t have a reputation for being particularly nimble, but Perry has shown how you can launch a song speedily and effectively. With the ARMY’s help and support, it was.” “I freaked out the first time I heard it,” says Perry of the track, written by David Stewart. To wit: BTS’ radio success with “Dynamite,” a demo he identified for the group. Still, being a studio rat and leading a staff of 200 - through a pandemic no less - seem like diametrically opposed skill sets, yet Perry has proven to be adept at both in 2020. ![]() Over time, you work really hard to perfect that as much as you can.” “Being in publishing, I was really involved in making records,” says the 41-year-old of a process that involves everything from arranging songs to mixing. The New York-based Perry arrived at 25 Madison in January 2018 from Songs, which he helped build into a formidable publishing house thanks to hits by Lorde, the Weeknd and Diplo, among others - then cashed out when it was sold to Kobalt for $150 million in December 2017.īusiness acumen is clearly a big reason why Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer hand-picked Perry as his successor at Columbia, but so is Perry’s trained ear. ![]() Impressive as that may be, it’s still shy of the label’s unprecedented 19-week run at the top of the charts in 2019 with “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X, who was signed and A&R’d by chairman Ron Perry, Variety’s Hitmakers Executive of the Year. Among its stable of smashes: Harry Styles’ “Adore You” and “Watermelon Sugar” Arizona Zervas’ “Roxanne” BTS’ “Dynamite” (with Big Hit Entertainment) “Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)” by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo Powfu’s “Death Bed (Co ee for Your Head)” and 24KGoldn’s “Mood” (signed via a joint venture with Records). If chart momentum keeps apace for Columbia Records in these final days of 2020, the label could lay claim to the No. ![]()
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