Read Warner Music Chief Robert Kyncl’s Year-End Letter to Staff, Celebrating Success During an ‘Intense’ 2024
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It’s been a challenging year for Warner Music, with a major overhaul at its Atlantic division and change throughout its business and the industry overall, but it’s safe to say the company is ending 2024 on an up note.
Its Warner Records has successfully completed a multi-year turnaround with hits from Zach Bryan, Teddy Swims, Benson Boone and more — and saw its chief execs Aaron Bay-Schuck and Tom Corson named Variety’s Hitmakers executives of the year — and Atlantic is coming off a flurry of hits from Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Rose and Variety‘s Hitmaker of the Year Charli xcx.
In publishing, its Warner Chappell division has three of its writers up for the songwriter of the year Grammy — Jessi Alexander, Raye, and of course Amy Allen, who was named Hitmakers songwriter of the year.
Hard-charging CEO Robert Kyncl wrote a year-end note to the staff, thanking them for “rising to the occasion” during the “intense” 2024.
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