Jacqueline Saturn is President of Virgin Music, which partners with independent labels and artists.<\/p>\n
Since September 2022<\/a>, Virgin Music has operated as a division of Virgin Music Group \u2013 Universal Music Group’s flagship global services division for independent partners.<\/p>\n Saturn was named President of Caroline in 2018<\/a>, overseeing all aspects of the operation\u2019s business, including artist and label signings, partnerships and strategic alliances.<\/p>\n Upon announcing her promotion, CMG Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett said, \u201cJacqueline is a dynamic executive who brings a wealth of experience and tireless dedication to helping Caroline\u2019s partners achieve and exceed their goals.”<\/p>\n \u201cJacqueline is a dynamic executive who brings a wealth of experience and tireless dedication to helping Caroline\u2019s partners achieve and exceed their goals.”<\/p>\n CMG Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett on jacqueline saturn<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Saturn began her career with Epic Records in 1993 as an assistant in the label’s promotions department. She became the vice president of alternative radio promotion in 1998 and senior vice president of rock and alternative promotion in 2005. In 2007, Saturn was promoted to senior vice president of promotion, responsible for the label’s promotion strategies and supervising the promotion staff. She held the position until she left the label in 2013 after working there for 20 years.<\/p>\n Saturn left Epic Records in 2013 to join Harvest Records as General Manager.<\/p>\n Saturn was named as General Manager of Caroline<\/a> alongside Piero Giramonti in December 2015.<\/p>\n In an interview with MBW in 2018<\/a>, Jacqueline Saturn talked about the influence of artists in the modern music business, saying, \u201cThe world is very different now, especially with social media. Artists are way more savvy about the music business, as are young people starting [labels] \u2013 they can be in control of their own destiny.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are definitely artists out there that have started building a brand on their own, or seeing the excitement when they put their music on SoundCloud, who think: \u2018No. I\u2019m my own boss, and that\u2019s how I want it to stay.’\u201d<\/p>\n “Artists are way more savvy about the music business, as are young people starting [labels] \u2013 they can be in control of their own destiny.”<\/p>\n jacqueline saturn, speaking in 2018<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n On the modern music business more broadly, Saturn told Rolling Stone in 2020<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s a fast business. People talk about things like TikTok, but it\u2019s not just about that: It\u2019s about being in tune with new opportunities, new developments, new audiences that we can reach. We could wake up tomorrow and have a different partner. You have to be on top of everything. Sure, there are certain jobs that require a certain skill set, like if you\u2019re applying to work in the finance department, it\u2019s different from applying to work in the digital music department, but what we\u2019re really all doing is trying to reach different audiences. You have to be able to move fast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jacqueline Saturn is President of Virgin Music, which partners with independent labels and artists. Since September 2022, Virgin Music has operated as a division of Virgin Music Group \u2013 Universal Music Group’s flagship global services division for independent partners. Saturn was named President of Caroline in 2018, overseeing all aspects of the operation\u2019s business, including … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48878,"template":"","class_list":["post-98712","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/98712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/98712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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