LABELS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Rebecca Allen Jo Charrington CO-PRESIDENTS, EMI RECORDS

Allen and Charrington successfully integrated Capitol Records — a front-line Universal Music Group label in the United Kingdom since 2013 — into the wider EMI group last year, which helped make EMI Records one of the top U.K. imprints. Their 2022 chart successes included No. 1 hits by Lewis Capaldi, Sam Smith and Taylor Swift and No. 1 albums by Bastille, Blossoms, Olly Murs, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott and Swift, whose Midnights was the year’s third-best-selling album in the United Kingdom, according to the Official Charts Company. In January, Capaldi scored his fourth domestic No. 1 single with “Pointless.”

Tricia Arnold

EXECUTIVE VP OF GLOBAL ARTIST/LABEL SERVICES AND SALES, THE ORCHARD

Erol Cichowski

Jason Pascal

EXECUTIVE VPs OF GLOBAL ARTIST AND LABEL PARTNERSHIPS, THE ORCHARD

The Orchard, in partnership with Rimas Entertainment, “helped push Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti to career-high chart positions in 15 global markets,” Arnold says of the superstar whom Billboard named Top Artist of 2022 in the United States, while his set, relased in May, was the Top Billboard 200 Album. The Orchard also had global success with Bizarrap, Jack White, RAYE and others. “We have amazing artist and label partners who continue to inspire us as we empower them to break into new markets ... around the world,” notes Arnold, crediting the company’s clients and global teams with helping sustain The Orchard’s profile “as the worldwide leader in independent distribution.”