{"id":137046,"date":"2022-08-23T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=137046"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:02:15","slug":"lucy-dickins-named-global-head-of-contemporary-music-and-touring-for-wme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/lucy-dickins-named-global-head-of-contemporary-music-and-touring-for-wme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Dickins named Global Head of Contemporary Music and Touring for WME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucy Dickins has been elevated to WME\u2019s Global Head of Contemporary Music and Touring.<\/p>\n

In her expanded role, Dickins will oversee all aspects of the agency\u2019s Contemporary Music and Touring business across Beverly Hills, New York, Nashville, London and Sydney.<\/p>\n

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Kirk Sommer will continue in his role of Global Co-Head of Contemporary Music and Touring, while Becky Gardenhire, Joey Lee, and Jay Williams will continue in their roles as Co-Heads of WME\u2019s Nashville office, managing the agency\u2019s Country Music touring business.<\/p>\n

Dickins, who recently re-located to WME\u2019s Beverly Hills office from London, joined the agency<\/a> in 2019 from ITB.<\/p>\n

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Dickins was promoted<\/a> to the position of co-head of Music at WME in 2020.<\/p>\n

According to the agency, since her arrival, she brought in “powerhouse clients and solidified WME\u2019s standing as the leading music agency in the UK”.<\/p>\n

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During her time at WME, the agency has made several new key agent and executive hires, and has booked over 30,000 dates alone in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucy is the ideal leader to guide WME\u2019s contemporary music business as we continue to expand our offerings and opportunities for our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lloyd Braun, WME<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lloyd Braun, Chairman of WME and President of Endeavor Client Group, said: \u201cLucy is a dynamic leader who brings strategic vision, energy and passion to every artist and colleague she encounters.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucy is the ideal leader to guide WME\u2019s contemporary music business as we continue to expand our offerings and opportunities for our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful to the leadership at WME for supporting me in this role, and for my partners and team members I have the privilege of working with every day in the Music division.”<\/p>\n

Lucy Dickins\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dickins said: \u201cI am grateful to the leadership at WME for supporting me in this role, and for my partners and team members I have the privilege of working with every day in the Music division.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place like WME, and I\u2019m excited for what we will achieve together on behalf of our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dickins will oversee all aspects of the agency\u2019s Contemporary Music and Touring business across Beverly Hills, New York, Nashville, London and Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":137047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72062,1277],"class_list":["post-137046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lucy-dickins","tag-wme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}