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Jon Platt is an American music-publishing executive and a former DJ. He is the chairman and CEO of
Sony Music Publishing Sony Music Publishing LLC (formerly Sony/ATV Music Publishing) is an American music publisher. Responsible for publishing the largest quantity of music, with over five million songs owned or administered as of end March 2021, it is part of Sony ...
.


Early life

Platt was born in
Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
and grew up in Montbello, Colorado. He and his siblings were raised by his mother, who worked a security job Rocky Flats to support her family.


Career

Platt began his career as a DJ. He began working in music publishing at
EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...
in 1995. In 2012 he was named president of
Warner/Chappell Music Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell Music's catalog consists of over 1.4 million compositions and 150,000 composers, with offices in over 40 countries. ...
. He became CEO of the company in 2015. He joined
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Sony Music Publishing LLC (formerly Sony/ATV Music Publishing) is an American music publisher. Responsible for publishing the largest quantity of music, with over five million songs owned or administered as of end March 2021, it is part of Sony ...
as chairman and CEO in 2019.


References


External links

*https://www.billboard.com/t/jon-platt/ *https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/people/jon-platt/ *https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/sony-music-publishing-jon-platt-award-pre-grammy-gala-1235543885/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Platt, Jon American music industry executives Living people Businesspeople from Philadelphia 1964 births