BMG’s International Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at finish of 2022

BMG revealed on Tuesday (October 4) that Peter Stack will step down as International Head of its catalog recordings enterprise on the finish of 2022.

Stack joined BMG in 2014 following BMG’s acquisition of the corporate he based, catalog specialist Union Sq. Music, and has spent the previous seven years as EVP International Catalog Recordings.

BMG says that Stack has been the “driving power” behind its recorded catalog enterprise.

The corporate’s recorded catalog enterprise contains work by artists resembling Black Sabbath, Buena Vista Social Membership, The Kinks, Insanity, Keith Richards, Kylie Minogue, Iron Maiden (US), Nina Simone, Nena, Erasure, Rick Astley, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Mötörhead, Nick Cave & The Dangerous Seeds, Fatboy Slim, Mötley Crüe, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Scorpions, The Small Faces, Mecano, Slade and ELP.

It additionally contains file labels, together with Transatlantic, Strictly Rhythm, Salsoul, Trojan and Noise.

Stack’s profession in recorded catalog contains constructing and working Music Assortment Worldwide (later to change into Demon Music Group) and founding Union Sq. Music.

He beforehand served as an elected Impartial Council Member on the BPI Council and as a PPL Board Director.

Peter Stack mentioned: “After I bought Union Sq. to BMG on the finish of 2014, I agreed to remain on for an preliminary three years to combine the enterprise.

“Little did I do know that it will flip into an eight-year journey making a best-in-class world operation with a catalog together with lots of the most influential and iconic artists of all time.”

“His place in BMG’s historical past is assured. We want him nicely.”

Hartwig Masuch, BMG 

BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch mentioned: “Peter Stack is each a real skilled and an actual gentleman who has performed a central function within the growth of BMG’s profitable catalog operation.

“His place in BMG’s historical past is assured. We want him nicely.”

“As I transfer on to take up my subsequent problem, I sit up for watching BMG’s catalog operation attain even larger heights sooner or later. ”

Peter Stack

In a notice to colleagues, Peter Stack described his tenure at BMG as “an absolute profession spotlight”.

“It has been an incredible pleasure to work alongside Hartwig and the excellent crew of colleagues at BMG,” he mentioned.

“We’ve got constructed a best-in-class recorded catalog operation, and it has been an unlimited privilege to characterize such excellent and proficient artists and to work alongside so many expert artist managers and representatives.

“As I transfer on to take up my subsequent problem, I sit up for watching BMG’s catalog operation attain even larger heights sooner or later.”Music Enterprise Worldwide