More gossip regarding Warner Music over there at Hits Daily Double. Apparently there has been much chatter as to the future of the US boss of the major label's Atlantic division, Craig Kallman.
His partner in crime at Atlantic, Jason Flom, quit last year, reportedly over disputes with the way the Warner Music top team were running things. Recent talk has suggested relationships between the Warner top team and Kallman are similarly strained, and that some insiders have been expecting him to go for a while now - probably being pushed rather than jumping.
But Hits Daily Double report that Kallman's job at Warner may be safe, for the time being at least, because of the meteoric success of James Blunt, who is signed to the Atlantic division. Kallman is apparently enjoying some of the praise for Blunt's global success, which would make it difficult for Warner chiefs Lyor Cohen or Edgar Bronfman Jnr to push for his resignation.
As previously reported, quite a lot of people at Warner US are trying to get some of the glory for the Blunt success story, although arguably the only Warner exec in America who can have any genuine claim to helping the singer songwriter in his rise to fame is Sylvia Rhone - the former Elektra chairman. Rhone, of course, was downsized after Bronfman's takeover of Warner Music and, the consensus goes, if it hadn't been for the support of the Atlantic team in London, Blunt would have been dropped too.