A music executive or record executive is person within a record label who works in senior management, making executive decisions over the label's artists. Their role varies greatly but in essence, they can oversee one, or many, aspects of a record label, including A&R;, contracts, management, publishing, production, manufacture, marketing/promotion, distribution, copyright, touring, as well as other things.
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