{"id":2165150,"date":"2025-11-18T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2165150"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:25:26","slug":"warner-music-canada-appoints-new-co-gms-julia-hummel-madelaine-napoleone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-music-canada-appoints-new-co-gms-julia-hummel-madelaine-napoleone\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Music Canada Appoints New Co-GMs Julia Hummel &#038; Madelaine Napoleone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Warner Music Canada has named Julia Hummel and Madelaine Napoleone as its new co-general managers, the company announced today. <\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-based executives \u2014 both <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.billboard.com\/womeninmusic2025\/2025-honourees\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Canada Women in Music 2025 honourees<\/a>, and with Hummel also recognized on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.billboard.com\/40under40\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Canada\u2019s 40 Under 40 list<\/a> \u2014 will jointly lead the company\u2019s strategy across one of the world\u2019s top music markets.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Hummel and Napoleone will report to Eric Wong, president of East West Records and head of global A&amp;R for recorded music at Warner Music Group. <\/p>\n<p>Before their promotions, Napoleone was VP of marketing and Hummel served as VP of digital strategy and business development. Both joined Warner Music Canada in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership shift arrives as Warner Music Group continues implementing a global plan to streamline operations and increase investment in music. It also follows <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.billboard.com\/business\/record-labels\/eric-wong-kristen-burke-warner-music-canada\" target=\"_blank\">the recent departure of Kristen Burke,<\/a> who previously served as president of Warner Music Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadelaine and I are excited to shape the next phase of Warner Music Canada\u2019s growth,\u201d Hummel said in an exclusive statement to <em>Billboard Canada<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019re committed to strengthening the bridge between our global artists and Canadian fans, and to ensuring that Canadian voices are heard on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJulia and I are proud to help Canadian artists leverage Warner Music\u2019s global network while building more opportunities for international talent here in Canada,\u201d Napoleone added. \u201cOur passion for music and dedication to supporting artists remain at the core of our work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wong said he has \u201cthe utmost confidence\u201d in their leadership, citing their combined expertise in marketing and digital strategy as key to advancing the company\u2019s Canadian business.<\/p>\n<p>The company also confirmed that Andy West, who served as EVP and general manager for the past three years, has exited the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Music Canada has named Julia Hummel and Madelaine Napoleone as its new co-general managers, the company announced today. The Toronto-based executives \u2014 both Billboard Canada Women in Music 2025 honourees, and with Hummel also recognized on Billboard Canada\u2019s 40 Under 40 list \u2014 will jointly lead the company\u2019s strategy across one of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[415683],"class_list":["post-2165150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-warner-music-canada"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Warner-Music-Canada-Appoints-New-Co-GMs-Julia-Hummel-Madelaine.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165152,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165150\/revisions\/2165152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}