{"id":43020,"date":"2018-04-11T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=43020"},"modified":"2018-05-15T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:47:09","slug":"oliver-schusser-named-global-head-of-apple-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/oliver-schusser-named-global-head-of-apple-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Schusser named global head of Apple Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Music has a new global boss.<\/p>\n

Oliver Schusser has been named head of Apple Music worldwide – moving up from his London-based role to become Vice President of Apple Music & International Content.<\/p>\n

Schusser, who recently played a key role in Apple’s recent $400m acquisition of Shazam – which is currently awaiting regulatory approval – will relocate from the UK to California for the new position.<\/p>\n

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According to Variety,<\/a>\u00a0the news was confirmed earlier today (April 11) in an internal memo from Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue – to whom Schusser will report in his new role.<\/p>\n

Schusser will divide his time between Apple Park in Cupertino and Apple\u2019s offices in Culver City, while continuing to lead international teams in 38 markets.<\/p>\n

Eddy Cue’s memo also confirms that Apple Music has now surpassed 40m paying subscribers worldwide, in addition to 8m trialists.<\/p>\n

That confirmation backs up MBW’s analysis from earlier this week<\/a>, which showed that Apple Music is currently outpacing Spotify in terms of global subscriber additions.<\/p>\n

Spotify, however, remains far out in front, with around 75m subscribers around the globe.<\/p>\n

Marketing executive Tracey Hannelly will rise to lead International for Apple Music in the wake of Schusser’s promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cupertino giant confirms that it’s topped 40m subscribers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[876,1508,1683,4503],"class_list":["post-43020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-apple-music","tag-eddy-cue","tag-oliver-schusser"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}