EMI Music 
Sony/ATV Music Publishing 
Beyonce and Tiffany Haddish have moved on from the headlines that the "Girls Trip" star stirred up when she revealed earlier this year that she saw an unnamed actress bite the singer at a private party.Variety caught up with Haddish on Thursday night at the City of Hope gala in Los Angeles, where Beyonce performed in honor of Jon Platt, the chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music Publishing and soon-to-be chief of Sony/ATV.“We’re not BFFs -- we haven’t braided each other’s hair or anything,...
Warner/Chappell Music
Jon
Platt
Chairman / CEO
In September, Platt became music publishing’s most powerful executive when sources confirmed
he is leaving his post at the helm of Warner/Chappell in April 2019 to succeed Martin Bandier — his former boss — as chief of Sony/ATV, the world’s biggest such company. It’s a bit of a homecoming, as Sony/ATV is in the process of completing its multibillion-dollar acquisition of EMI Music Publishing, where Platt worked for 17 years and his signings included Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Diddy and Drake. Several of those artists, along with Shawn Mendes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, DJ Khaled and Rihanna, followed him to Warner/Chappell, where his three-year reign reached a milestone in the third quarter of 2017, when it was the first to break Sony/ATV’s five-year rule of Billboard’s Publisher’s Quarterly chart.
