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Sony Music’s Rob Stringer Talks Grammys, Industry Challenges and Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes on ‘Strictly Business’ Podcast
Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicJoining Variety for its first-ever all-music edition of the “Strictly Business” podcast is Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer, who oversees the standalone labels Columbia, RCA, Epic and Arista Records as well as Sony Music Publishing and The Orchard and leads a staff of more than 5,000 employees around the world.Stringer has spent his entire professional career in the Sony system, starting out as a marketing trainee in his native U.K., then moving up the ranks and to New York in 2006, where he went on to shape Sony’s recorded music business in the U.S.Stringer has previously served as chief executive at Columbia Records, helping bring to the world a slew of successful new artists, including
