Jo Charrington

Jo Charrington
Birth name	Jo Charrington
Origin	London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Music Industry Executive
Years active	1992 – present
Labels	London, Capitol Records, Sony Music, Epic
Associated acts	Another Level, Lemar, Charlotte Church, JLS, Paloma Faith, Aloe Blacc, The Priests, Olly Murs, Sam Smith, 5 Seconds of Summer

Jo Charrington is a music industry executive. She is currently the Executive Vice President of A&R at Capitol Records in the UK. Her industry career began at London Records in 1992 as a marketing assistant before moving to Virgin Records in the International Department, then BMG working for the President Jeremy Marsh.

Charrington left her job at BMG in 1996 to put together and manage the RnB boyband “Another Level”, alongside John Reid (Elton John/Queen). She later signed them to Nick Raphael and Christian Tattersfield at Northwestside Records, a newly formed subsidiary of BMG. The band enjoyed multiple top 10 singles including the Number 1 ‘Freak Me’, as well as a platinum debut album in the UK.

After Reid left the management business, Charrington joined up with Simon Fuller. After 5 years in management she was approached by her old London Records colleague and Northwestside Records founder Nick Raphael to join him at Epic Records, a division of Sony Music. The duo have worked together for 14 years, 10 of which at Sony, before moving to Universal to restart London Records, now Capitol UK.

Charrington, alongside Raphael, has signed and launched a diverse number of platinum and multi-platinum selling artists, including;

Charrington's artists and writers have won multiple Grammys, BRITs, American Music Awards, Ivor Novellos and MOBOs.

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