I.B. on Brits

FROM STICKY WICKETS TO LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS: In his column, I.B. Bad further notes that Barnett is one of three Brit execs heading up Top Five U.S. labels, along with Peter Edge and Rob Stringer, who head up Sony Music’s two biggest labels in RCA (#2 in YTD new-release share with 7.5%) and Columbia (#3, 7.0%), respectively. These experienced and capable power players are bucking a historic trend that has seen one U.K.-trained executive after the other unable to make the transition to the American music business. (10/23a)

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