Atlantic Records ‘ Craig Kallman is moving to a new role as chief music officer at parent company Warner Music Group , The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal, as the long-venerated executive officially ends a three-decade run at the historic label for a broader A&R posting at the corporate level.

With his new role, Kallman will focus on signing artists through Big Beat Records, the record label he’d founded in the ’80s before it was acquired by WMG in 1991, when Kallman first joined the company. Kallman will report to WMG CEO Robert Kyncl, and his signees at Big Beat will be worked through WMG’s US labels, which include both Atlantic and Warner Records.

Atlantic Records ‘ Craig Kallman is moving to a new role as chief music officer at parent company Warner Music Group

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