Major labels don’t have a reputation for being particularly nimble, but Perry has shown how you can launch a song speedily and effectively. With the ARMY’s help and support, it was.” “I freaked out the first time I heard it,” says Perry of the track, written by David Stewart. To wit: BTS’ radio success with “Dynamite,” a demo he identified for the group. Still, being a studio rat and leading a staff of 200 - through a pandemic no less - seem like diametrically opposed skill sets, yet Perry has proven to be adept at both in 2020. Over time, you work really hard to perfect that as much as you can.” ![]() “Being in publishing, I was really involved in making records,” says the 41-year-old of a process that involves everything from arranging songs to mixing. The New York-based Perry arrived at 25 Madison in January 2018 from Songs, which he helped build into a formidable publishing house thanks to hits by Lorde, the Weeknd and Diplo, among others - then cashed out when it was sold to Kobalt for $150 million in December 2017.īusiness acumen is clearly a big reason why Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer hand-picked Perry as his successor at Columbia, but so is Perry’s trained ear. Impressive as that may be, it’s still shy of the label’s unprecedented 19-week run at the top of the charts in 2019 with “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X, who was signed and A&R’d by chairman Ron Perry, Variety’s Hitmakers Executive of the Year. Among its stable of smashes: Harry Styles’ “Adore You” and “Watermelon Sugar” Arizona Zervas’ “Roxanne” BTS’ “Dynamite” (with Big Hit Entertainment) “Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)” by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo Powfu’s “Death Bed (Co ee for Your Head)” and 24KGoldn’s “Mood” (signed via a joint venture with Records). If chart momentum keeps apace for Columbia Records in these final days of 2020, the label could lay claim to the No.
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