\n\tRapper Yung Miami has signed with WME for worldwide representation in all areas. The South Florida rapper and former member of the City Girls will release her solo debut on the relaunched Uptown Records later this year. The album\u2019s lead single, \u201cSpend Dat,\u201d topped the Billboard Rap Airplay charts and is currently at No. 17 on the Hot 100, and she performed it during the New York Knicks\u2019 Championship Parade last month.<\/p>\n
\n\t+ New York\u2019s City Parks Foundation will honor SummerStage festival founder and executive producer Joe Killian and Alex Blavatnik, Vice Chairman of Access Industries and Director of the Blavatnik Archive, at its 2026 Dinner & Concert benefit fundraiser, taking place September 10 at the SummerStage venue at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. Killian, who founded SummerStage and served as its executive producer from 1986 to 1993, will receive the SummerStage Icon Award, as the storied festival celebrates its milestone 40th anniversary this season, and Blavatnik will be honored with the 2026 City Parks Foundation Icon Award. The evening will also feature a performance by New Orleans\u2019 Preservation Hall Jazz Band and others to be announced.<\/p>\n
\n\tCity Parks Foundation, through its Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Festival, is one of the largest presenters of free arts and cultural programs in New York City parks, and serves nearly 300,000 New Yorkers each year through arts, education, sports and community building initiatives.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAs we celebrate SummerStage\u2019s 40th anniversary this year, we are truly honored to be presenting our trailblazing festival founder Joe Killian with this year\u2019s SummerStage Icon Award. Joe had a groundbreaking vision to bring free, world-class performing arts programming to New Yorkers, and we are so proud to be continuing his mission across the city to this day\u201d said Heather Lubov, Executive Director of City Parks Foundation.\u00a0 \u201cWe are also equally excited to present Alex Blavatnik with the City Parks Foundation Icon Award and shine a spotlight on the longtime commitment and philanthropic support that he and his Foundation have provided to preserving cultural history and making it freely accessible to all \u2013 something we strongly believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t+ Sony Music Publishing Nashville\u00a0has signed Adam James to a global publishing deal. James has penned songs for Luke Combs, Dierks Bentley, Nate Smith and more. He recently contributed four songs on Cody Johnson\u2019s CMA Album of the Year winner\u00a0\u201cLeather,\u201d\u00a0including \u201cWhiskey Bent\u201d featuring Jelly Roll. He\u00a0also penned the \u201cKnowing You\u201d by Kenny Chesney, which was\u00a0nominated for Song of the Year at the\u00a02022\u00a0Academy of Country Music Awards.<\/p>\n
James\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0so grateful for this opportunity to be at Sony Music Publishing. The energy I feel from the team when I walk through the door\u00a0every day\u00a0is truly inspiring.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0sincerely fired\u00a0up to work with all y\u2019all. It also makes me super happy to know my songs will be hanging out with Roger Miller\u2019s and Dennis Linde\u2019s on a massive cloud storage database somewhere. Dreams do come true!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t+ Traditional country artist Colton Dawson has signed with WME for global representation. The 19-year-old Arizona native recently signed with Warner Records Nashville and is managed by TKO Artist Management.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSigning with WME is a huge milestone for me,\u201d said Dawson. \u201cI grew up loving country music and dreaming about playing these kinds of stages, so to now have a team that believes in what I\u2019m building means the world. I\u2019m ready to get out there and keep earning it every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t+ Universal Music Group has named Tseyin Foo has been appointed President of Global Supply Chain, reporting to Boyd Muir, Chief Operating Officer, and based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
\n\tFoo will lead UMG\u2019s global supply chain, strengthening the capabilities that underpin the company\u2019s worldwide business across its ecosystem of digital partnerships and direct to consumer destinations, as well as physical formats, merchandise and other consumer products, according to the announcement. She joins UMG from Skechers, where she served as Head of Global Supply Chain Planning & Strategy. and previous held senior positions at VF Corporation, across Timberland, Vans and 7 For All Mankind.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAs we continue to create more opportunities for growth throughout the music ecosystem, it\u2019s increasingly important that we operate as one global organization with greater speed, flexibility, and precision,\u201d said Boyd Muir. \u201cTseyin brings a rare combination of strategic leadership, operational excellence, and technology expertise that will help us deliver greater impact at greater scale, driving even more value for artists, songwriters, labels and entrepreneurs around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t+ Detroit-based producer and executive Justin \u201cJay\u201d Norman, who most recently served as Global Director of Creative Strategy and Global Head of Music Marketing at Spotify, has left the streamer to lead Verse + Hook (V+H); the creative strategy, branding, and marketing consultancy he co-founded.<\/p>\n
\n\tCo-founder Miso Brown steps in as Head of Brand Amplification, Partner Tierra Filhiol assumes the role of Head of Cultural Intelligence & Strategy, and Kyle Bernhardt will take on the position of Executive Director, Head of Creative. Rounding out the team, Chelsea V Huguley will manage Client Partnerships & Business Development as Director, Apryl Gordy joins as Director of People & Operations, and Joe Zimmer will serve as Director of Project Management. According to the announcement, Verse + Hook operates across five practice areas: Strategy, Brand + Creative, Production + Content, Experiential, and Music + Sync via its sync licensing arm, Soundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Yung Miami has signed with WME for worldwide representation in all areas. The South Florida rapper and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,143524],"class_list":["post-350843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-music-industry-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}