It took a while, but MySpace finally got its Music man – Courtney Holt, who's been in the job for ten days. Has he solved all the problems? “Every single one is solved, we're on a great track,” he grins. Hurrah!Yes, he's here for his first public appearance since takin the role of CEO at MySpace Music. What got him the job? “My entire career has been in the digital media space,” he explains, having started building new media services at Atlantic and then Universal. “I've always been looking at ways to take music into the new money, and connect the dots between music passion and the music business.”He says there wasn't that long between starting talking to MySpace about the role, and actually taking it. So who did he meet with during the process? Most of his meetings were with Chris DeWolfe and Amit Kapur, before meeting their “other partners” (i.e. News Corp).He already knew MySpace from his work at UMG, helping his transition, he says. “MySpace Music is a venture, but we are majority controlled by MySpace. The Music business is wholly tethered, but we do have some operational distance. We are the music engine of MySpace proper.”What [...]
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