This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Business News Labels & Publishers
Motown downsizes as it’s reintegrated into the Capitol Music Group
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 17 February 2023
Universal Music has confirmed that it is downsizing the team at its Motown label in the US, as it is integrated more closely with the major’s Capitol Music Group division.
Motown sat within the Capitol Music Group previously, but then became a standalone frontline label in 2021 after a flurry of successes under its CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam. However, following Habtemariam’s decision late last year to stand down from that role, Motown is moving back under the CMG banner, meaning it will utilise more of that division’s services and teams than in the last couple of years.
As a result, a spokesperson for the Motown label told Billboard, “certain positions that had been created when we became a standalone label have since become duplicative. These employees are leaving the company and our People, Inclusion And Culture department is helping them find new opportunities – either within or outside of UMG”.
