Executive Who Signed AI Artist Xania Monet Promoted to Head of A&R at Hallwood

Danny Jacobson has been promoted to caput of A&R astatine Hallwood Media, a recording, management, publishing, organisation and merch company. He volition oversee A&R crossed each divisions of the company, guiding a roster of implicit 100 signees.

News of the promotion comes aft Danny, who is the relative of Hallwood laminitis Neil Jacobson, spearheaded Hallwood’s arguable but groundbreaking AI creator signing strategy, including the signing of Xania Monet — the AI creator Billboard reported had signed a multimillion-dollar grounds woody with Hallwood past month.

Monet, the alias of writer Telisha “Nikki” Jones, who uses Suno to alteration her words into songs, made headlines for her record-breaking woody with Hallwood, but besides for her quality connected the Billboard charts. Her azygous “How Was I Supposed to Know” reached No. 1 connected Billboard‘s R&B Digital Song Sales illustration and was the No. 1 most-added opus astatine R&B vigor past week.

Danny, however, has signed acold much than conscionable Monet. According to a property merchandise astir his promotion, helium has inked different alleged “AI-powered” talent, including China Styles, Bleeding Verse, Drew Meadows, Lone Star Lyric House, David Sven and respective different projects inactive to beryllium announced.

In a property merchandise astir his caller position, Danny notes that he’s “thrilled to measurement into this caller relation and proceed pushing the boundaries of what A&R tin be. At Hallwood, we determination archetypal and fast, spotting endowment aboriginal and helping them crook momentum into careers.”

Since joining Hallwood successful 2020, Danny has worked successful some absorption and A&R positions astatine the institution and is said to person played a cardinal relation successful shaping Hallwood’s A&R strategy, including gathering retired its probe section and processing a pipeline for discovering and supporting emerging artists.

Neil says of the appointment: “Danny has been an integral portion of Hallwood since time one, gathering our probe department, signing unthinkable artists, and proving himself arsenic a visionary. To beryllium promoted to this relation astatine specified a young property is simply a testament to his uncanny oculus for talent, heavy knowing of younker culture, and relentless enactment ethic — he’s the aboriginal of A&R.”