Melissa Emert-Hutner appointed Senior Vice President of Creative at Kobalt

Melissa Emert-Hutner has been appointed Senior Vice President of Artistic at rights administration and music publishing agency Kobalt.

Emert-Hutner, who has served because the New York-headquartered firm’s VP, Artistic since 2016, will proceed to supervise the corporate’s inventive staff, develop the roster with new signings “and nurture and develop the success of the Kobalt roster,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement Monday (November 13).

In her time at Kobalt, Emert-Hutner has labored with quite a few artists together with IDLES, Rainbow Kitten Shock, Omah Lay, Adekunle Gold, JAWNY, Cigarettes After Intercourse, Bon Iver, mxmtoon, Conor Oberst, First Assist Equipment, BANKS, Del Water Hole, Thxsomch, Blondshell, Garrett Nash and Andrew Goldstein.

Previous to becoming a member of Kobalt, Emert-Hutner held a lot of positions within the music enterprise, together with Senior Director of Publishing at Nettwerk Music Group, Founder and proprietor of Hoseb Administration, and supervisor and companion at Meant It! Administration, amongst different positions.

“Melissa’s arduous work, diligence, teamwork, and keenness for music makes this promotion very nicely deserved,” Kobalt Head of International Artistic Alison Donald mentioned in an announcement. “I’ve little doubt beneath her management, the NY inventive staff will proceed to thrive.”

Emert-Hutner added: “I’m deeply honored to have the chance to be a member of this exceptional publishing firm’s A&R staff. Kobalt’s distinctive roster of the world’s most gifted music creators, its modern know-how and devoted world inventive staff are really unmatched.”

Emert-Hutner’s is the newest in a collection of high-level appointments at Kobalt in current months, together with Kenny McGoff’s promotion to Head of Artistic UK, from his place as head of A&R UK.

In October, Kobalt introduced it was appointing Sean Dishman to Senior Director, Artistic. Dishman had labored his approach up from intern over the previous decade. Lastly, earlier this month, the corporate appointed Dylan Berthier – previously of Activision Blizzard – to the put up of Chief Individuals & Tradition Officer.

“Melissa’s arduous work, diligence, teamwork, and keenness for music makes this promotion very nicely deserved. I’ve little doubt beneath her management, the NY inventive staff will proceed to thrive.”

Alison Donald, Kobalt

Based in 2000 by Swedish exec Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt was a pioneer within the music rights enterprise, signing such stars as Max Martin and Sir Paul McCartney in its early years. In 2021, the corporate sold its outstanding AWAL and Kobalt Neighboring Rights manufacturers to Sony Music Entertainment in a $430-million deal.

“I’m deeply honored to have the chance to be a member of this exceptional publishing firm’s A&R staff. Kobalt’s distinctive roster of the world’s most gifted music creators, its modern know-how and devoted world inventive staff are really unmatched.”

Melissa Emert-Hutner, Kobalt

Kobalt has been the proprietor of AMRA – previously the American Mechanical Rights Company – since 2014, and runs the royalty assortment society as a separate entity from its music publishing and label work.

Earlier this month, Kobalt announced a $700-million cope with funding funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Worth to amass music rights over the subsequent few years.Music Enterprise Worldwide