YouTube Shorts sponsors Manager of the Year category at A&R Awards

The large night time is lower than 5 weeks away, the joy is constructing, the finalists have been announced – and YouTube Shorts has been confirmed as sponsor of the Supervisor of the 12 months class.

Introduced by Music Business Worldwide, the A&R Awards is the UK music trade’s most pleasant night time out of the 12 months.

This 12 months’s occasion takes place at its conventional house, London’s Grand Connaught Rooms, on the night of Tuesday November seventh. It can rejoice essentially the most profitable execs, managers, producers and songwriters of the final 12 months – and there will probably be a sprinkling of particular recognition awards for some legends of the sport.

Dan Chalmers, YouTube’s Head of Music, EMEA, stated: “The worlds of A&R and administration have by no means been extra intently aligned than they’re in the fashionable music enterprise, and so we’re delighted to again a class devoted to celebrating the managers who’ve performed pivotal and artistic roles in creating artists, breaking new music and attaining success.”

Different classes on the occasion will embrace Producer of The 12 months; A&R of the 12 months: Grownup Up to date; A&R of The 12 months: Up to date Black Music, A&R Of The 12 months: Digital/Dance (sponsored by SoundCloud); Tune of the 12 months and Songwriter of the 12 months (both sponsored by Hipgnosis); Writer of the 12 months (sponsored by Milk & Honey), Main Label of The 12 months, Impartial Label of The 12 months, and Administration Firm of the 12 months – in addition to show-stopping particular displays such because the A&R Icon and the Sir George Martin Award.

The headline sponsor of the A&R Awards is, as at all times, Abbey Road Studios.

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