The Entertainment Retailers Association has a new Chairman, in the form of 7Digital Group SVP of Music Raoul Chatterje.
•Universal Music has given digital man Andrew Chang - a staffer at UMG since 2009 - the title of Senior VP of Digital & Strategic Development for the Greater China region.
•Cooking Vinyl has announced the launch of new divisions in France and Germany. They will support the wider Cooking Vinyl network, and its sister label services business Essential, in Europe. Zineb Benomar will manage Cooking Vinyl France and Hilke Dethleff Cooking Vinyl Germany.
•The Association of Independent Festivals has appointed a new Chairman and Vice-Chair; Jim Mawdsley from music development agency Generator takes the helm, and Sŵn Festival co-founder John Rostron respectively will be his deputy. Out-going Vice-Chair and AIF co-founder Ben Turner will sit on a new strategy board overseeing the indie festival group.
The PRS For Music Foundation has confirmed that former Generator man Joe Frankland will oversee the Arts Council-backed Momentum Music Fund, while Flora Ward joins as an administrator.
Viagogo has appointed a new exec to oversee music partnerships worldwide - Carole MacDonald, formerly with EMI.
Amazon's VP of Digital Music And Video in the US, Bill Carr, is to leave the company by the year's end.
Calvin Harris and Frank Ocean management group Three Six Zero has confirmed a series of new appointments: Universal Music business and legal affairs man Arif Mahmud joins the London-based company as UK General Manager, while existing staff members Matt Vines and Phil Sales have been promoted, and now both enjoy the job title VP UK Artist Management. The group's COO, James Sealey, will be relocating to the firm's LA office to run worldwide operations.
Jason Orange has left Take That. He said there had been "no fallings out" and he had "spent some of the best years" of his life with them. The 44-year-old has issued a statement to say he did not want to "commit" to making and promoting a new album. His bandmates, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, said his departure was "a huge loss".
In Minnesota the Catholic Church's Director of Music, Jamie Manzi-Moore, has refused to resign after 17 years service despite a request to leave from Archbishop John Nienstedt. Why was he asked to resign? Seemingly because he is gay (which was not a secret) but had recently tied the knot with his male partner.
In the UK, Arts Council chief Alan Davey will become the new head of BBC Radio 3 but unlike his predecessor he will not run the BBC Proms. He takes over from Roger Wright, who has left Radio 3 after 15 years to become chief executive of Aldeburgh Music. Mr Davey will oversee the BBC's six performing groups, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the BBC Singers.
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