Jo Charrington

Jo Charrington is a music industry executive. She is currently the Executive Vice President of A&R at Capitol Records in the UK.^[1][2] Her industry career began at London Records in 1992 as a marketing assistant before moving to Virgin Records in the International Department, then BMG working for the President Jeremy Marsh.^[3]

Career

Charrington left her job at BMG in 1996 to put together and manage the RnB boyband “Another Level”, alongside John Reid (Elton John/Queen). She later signed them to Nick Raphael and Christian Tattersfield^[4] at Northwestside Records, a newly formed subsidiary of BMG.^[5] The band enjoyed multiple top 10 singles including the Number 1 ‘Freak Me’,^[6] as well as a platinum debut album in the UK.^[7]

After Reid left the management business, Charrington joined up with Simon Fuller.^[8] After 5 years in management she was approached by her old London Records colleague^[9] and Northwestside Records founder Nick Raphael to join him at Epic Records,^[10][11] a division of Sony Music.^[3] The duo have worked together for 14 years, 10 of which at Sony, before moving to Universal to restart London Records, now Capitol UK.^[12]

Artists discovered or signed by Jo Charrington

Charrington, alongside Raphael, has signed and launched a diverse number of platinum and multi-platinum selling artists, including;

• 5 Seconds of Summer at Capitol.
• Sam Smith at Capitol.
• Aloe Blacc at Epic.
• Big Brovaz at Epic
• Charlotte Church at Epic.
• G4 at Epic.
• Imogen Heap at Epic.
• JLS at Epic.
• Lemar at Epic.
• Mylo at Epic
• Olly Murs at Epic.
• Paloma Faith at Epic.
• The Priests at Epic.
• Russell Watson at Epic.
• Scouting For Girls at Epic.

Awards and nominations

Charrington's artists and writers have won multiple Grammys, BRITs, American Music Awards, Ivor Novellos and MOBOs.^[13]

Charrington, along with Raphael, was awarded the Music Week A&R Award in both 2010^[14] and 2015.^[15]

Charrington has been invited to take part in a mentoring scheme set up by Marie Claire magazine to inspire and educate the future generation of the music industry.^[16]

In 2015, she was named Business Woman of the Year at the 2015 Music Week’s Women in Music awards.^[17]

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