The UK’s 2024 New Yr Honours checklist has been introduced – with a number of music business figures acknowledged.
Selina Webb, EVP of Common Music UK, has been awarded an MBE for providers to the music business, neurodiversity, and charity.
Webb has served Common Music UK and/or its labels for 25 years.
She joined the corporate in 1998 as Director of Press at Polydor Information, having beforehand been Editor of UK commerce paper Music Week.
Webb then stepped up in 2010 to turn out to be Senior Director of Communications for Common Music UK, earlier than being promoted once more to EVP in 2016.
Working carefully with Common Music UK Chairman & CEO, David Joseph – to whom she reviews – Webb has spearheaded quite a few key initiatives at Common specializing in points together with well-being and neurodiversity.
Alongside EMI Information co-President, Rebecca Allen, Webb headed up this system for the 2021 BRIT Awards, a ceremony that noticed awards collected in individual – and mid-pandemic – by stars together with Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks, and Haim.
In November 2022, Webb was offered with the Excellent Contribution award at Music Week’s Ladies In Music occasion in London, the place David Joseph stated of her: “Selina could be very a lot the corporate’s conscience… In our band, she’s the drummer, she units the tone and rhythm of what we do.”
Sir Lucian Grainge, CEO and Chairman of Common Music Group, referred to as Webb “loyal, passionate, [and] considerate” in a video tribute at that occasion.
Elsewhere on the 2024 New Yr Honours checklist, Carla Marie Williams – celebrated songwriter and founder/CEO of Ladies I Price – is awarded an MBE for providers to music.
Williams has written or co-written songs together with Beyoncé’s Freedom, Naughty Boy/Beyoncé’s Runnin, and Britney Spears’ Personal Present.
She has additionally written for artists together with Craig David, Kylie Minogue, and Sean Paul.
In 2016, Williams was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for her work on Beyoncé’s Lemonade album.
Ladies I Price, based by Williams in 2016, says it “pushes for change and creates alternatives for younger girls within the music and leisure business”.
One other songwriter acknowledged within the newest UK New Yr Honours is Don Black – the famed lyricist behind tracks recorded by the likes of Matt Monro, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Meat Loaf and plenty of extra.
A collaborator of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Black is maybe greatest recognized for the lyrics he penned for a number of of John Barry’s traditional James Bond theme songs – together with Diamonds Are Ceaselessly, Thunderball, and The Man With The Golden Gun.
Black is awarded a CBE within the newest New Yr’s Honours, having already been awarded with an OBE.
Talking of Bond themes… the singer behind Diamonds Are Ceaselessly (and plenty of different traditional hits), Dame Shirley Bassey, has been made a Companion Of Honour within the newest Honours checklist.
Different music business figures honored right now (December 30) embrace singer/songwriter Leona Lewis (OBE), Glastonbury pageant founder Michael Eavis (knighthood), Jazz Re:freshed CEO Yvette Griffith (OBE), and World Radio founder and President, Ashley Tabor-King (CBE).
In the meantime, Paul Burger – founding father of Soho Artists and former President of Sony Music EMEA – is awarded an OBE for providers to the Music Trade and to Charity.
Throughout greater than 40 years within the music enterprise, Burger has additionally been a Director of The BRIT Belief, The Music Managers Discussion board, and The BPI.
He lately stood down from his position as a Non-Exec Director at UK-listed Hipgnosis Songs Fund.Music Enterprise Worldwide
