Warner Chappell Music’s Amy Allen is on a hot streak. The Grammy-nominated songwriter recently secured several #1s under her belt, with more new releases on the horizon.
Having penned for the likes of Harry Styles, Halsey and Selena Gomez, Allen’s recent success includes Tate McRae’s “greedy,” which dominated Top 40 radio for eight weeks, as well as Sabrina Carpenter’s “Feather,” which became the singer’s first chart-topping hit at Pop.
Adding to her list of Pop radio hits, Allen is also behind Justin Timberlake’s “Selfish,” and five other tracks from his album, Everything I Thought It Was, as well as credited on Olivia Rodrigo’s “scared of my guitar” from her new deluxe album, GUTS (spilled).
In 2022, Allen became one of the first songwriters to be nominated for the Grammys’ Songwriter of the Year award.
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PULSE Music Group has promoted 10-year veteran Kara Foley to SVP/Head of Creative Sync Licensing, a position she will fulfill from the company’s Los Angeles HQ while reporting to co-CEOs Scott Cutler and Josh Abraham.
Foley has of late curated original music for the films Candy Cane Lane and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, organized all-female and hip-hop-oriented songwriting camps and worked on the campaign surrounding the partnership between Major League Baseball and Apple TV+ to broadcast live games on Fridays.
“Collaborating with talented songwriters, producers, artists and the music supervisor community is an absolute privilege,” says Foley, who has previously worked at UMG, Island Def Jam and Warner Chappell. “Together, we help tell stories through music, making writers’ dream placements a reality and I couldn’t ask for a better career.”
Added Cutler and Abraham of Foley, “her placements have helped us to achieve double-digit growth in sync income year-to-date. Kara has impeccable relationships across the music supervisor community and she knows how to create breakthrough moments for our writers. We are pleased to recognize her efforts with this well-deserved promotion.”
Jules Parker has announced that he’ll exiting Spotify, where he has hitherto served as global head of songwriter & publisher partnerships, at the end of July. What will be the well-liked Parker’s next move? Stay tuned. In the meantime, via LinkedIn, he expressed his gratitude to the Spotify team and larger community and enumerated multiple exhilarating career highlights from his eight years at the company. “My thanks go out to all the current & ex-colleagues who worked together to make this happen and make it all so fun,” Parker wrote in the post. “I’ve learned much from many talented people.” Read the rest here and stay tuned for updates on his forthcoming adventures.
