BILLBOARD NAMES JEREMY LASCELLES, ANNETTE BARRETT, AND SPEK TO THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL POWER PLAYERS LIST
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Today, Billboard unveiled the 2024 International Power Players list, a list of executives with primary responsibility for markets outside the United States. Blue Raincoat Music Co-Founder/CEO and Chrysalis Records CEO Jeremy Lascelles, Reservoir Managing Director and Global Strategic Liaison Annette Barrett, and PopArabia Founder/CEO and Reservoir EVP of International and Emerging Markets Spek were all named to the list.
As the CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Raincoat Music and CEO at Chrysalis Records, Lascelles has been involved across the music industry for decades, signing and developing recording artists like Laura Marling and Ben Harper, publishing clients like Self Esteem, and celebrating success with management clients like Phoebe Bridgers, Arlo Parks, Nova Twins and Cigarettes After Sex, among others.
At Reservoir, Barrett has long worked with noted songwriters like Nitin Sawhney, Jamie Hartman, and Pete Gordeno, as well as the Company’s international roster, including talent like Cutfather. Since 2020, Barrett has also served as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Independent Music Publishers Forum (IMPF).
Since founding PopArabia in 2011, Spek has led the Company to become the leading music publisher in the Middle East & North Africa, representing an estimated 60% of global published repertoire through sub-publishing agreements with the likes of Reservoir, Sony Music Publishing, BMG Rights, Kobalt, Roundhill Music, and Concord, among others.
In the past year, Reservoir’s global offices have executed strategic deals through its venture with PopArabia, such as signing “Queen of Pop” Nancy Ajram and continuing to develop PopArabia’s rights organization, ESMAA. The first-of-its-kind music rights management entity looks to protect artists and music creators throughout the United Arab Emirates and the Persian Gulf. One of its major accomplishments includes creating the first licensing platform for music publishers and performing rights organizations in the Middle East and North Africa.
On being featured in this year’s Billboard International Power Players list, Spek commented, “It is an honor to be recognized alongside my colleagues Jeremy Lascelles and Annette Barrett out of the U.K.”
See the full list of Billboard’s International Power Players here.