{"id":175993,"date":"2025-07-31T06:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/awal-promotes-matt-riley-to-president-victoria-needs-sam-potts-to-co-managing-directors\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:09:39","slug":"awal-promotes-matt-riley-to-president-victoria-needs-sam-potts-to-co-managing-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/awal-promotes-matt-riley-to-president-victoria-needs-sam-potts-to-co-managing-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"AWAL Promotes Matt Riley to President, Victoria Needs & Sam Potts to Co-Managing\u00a0Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAfter a recent run of successes, AWAL has announced a series of executive promotions in the U.K.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatt Riley<\/strong> has been named president, an elevation from his previous role of managing director. Meanwhile, Victoria Needs<\/strong> and Sam Potts<\/strong> will move into new roles as co-managing directors, having both previously held the role of senior vp.<\/p>\n

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\n\tRiley, who appeared on Billboard U.K.\u2019s <\/em>2025 Power Players list<\/a>, first joined the label and distributor in 2014 and has led the U.K. arm of the label since 2023 alongside Needs and Potts. Prior to joining AWAL, Needs held roles at EMI, Warner and Sony. Her current team has led global campaigns for artists such as Djo, Little Simz, Jungle and Laufey, as well as delivering domestic success for artists such as CMAT and James Marriott. Potts has enjoyed success while working on the digital marketing strategies for AWAL\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news follows a hot streak in the U.K. for the AWAL roster. In June, Marriott hit the top spot<\/a> of the Official Albums Chart with his second LP, Don\u2019t Tell The Dog<\/em>, besting Oasis in a tight chart battle. And AWAL-affiliated rapper and polymath Little Simz<\/a> achieved a new career-high on the U.K. Albums Chart with her sixth album Lotus<\/em> peaking at No. 3 while marking her biggest opening-week sales to date. Following her curation of London\u2019s Meltdown Festival in June, she\u2019s due to headline London\u2019s O2 Arena this fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tIrish country-pop star CMAT<\/a> drew a huge crowd at Glastonbury Festival in June, and AWAL is set to release her third LP, Euro-Country<\/em>, on Aug. 29. Her song \u201cTake a Sexy Picture of Me\u201d has earned 18 million streams since its release in May and sparked a viral TikTok dance<\/a>. Additionally, Icelandic-Chinese star Laufey<\/a> earned a hat-trick of top 40 singles in 2024 with three festive songs (\u201cWinter Wonderland,\u201d \u201cChristmas Magic,\u201d and \u201cSanta Baby\u201d) charting in the U.K. Her third LP, A Matter of Time<\/em>, will be released on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking on the news, Riley said, \u201cIt is immensely rewarding to have been part of AWAL\u2019s story for the past decade and most of all a huge privilege to work with such a special bunch of people and artists. Thank you to Lonny and Paul for their leadership and experience and of course Sam and Vic, with whom I feel we have created a formidable team. We go into every single day working hard to make AWAL the most culturally exciting, successful and forward thinking home for artists and executives it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLonny Olinick<\/strong>, AWAL\u2019s CEO, added, \u201cIt is a privilege to recognize the amazing work of our UK leadership team. Matt, Sam and Vic work selflessly as a leadership team, always putting aside any ego to do what\u2019s best for each other, our artists and our AWAL team. They are music lovers who care deeply about our artists and the art that they create. They are the unique team that is constantly pushing the envelope, making sure that our artists realize every ounce of their potential. Their results speak for themselves and we are fortunate to have such a strong team in a market so central to AWAL\u2019s past, present and future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After a recent run of successes, AWAL has announced a series of executive promotions in the U.K. Matt Riley has been named president, an elevation from his previous role of managing director. Meanwhile, Victoria Needs and Sam Potts will move into new roles as co-managing directors, having both previously held the role of senior vp. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}