ZOOMING INTO A NEW ERA

RCA Records and Hard 8 Working Group team members duly assembled via Zoom on 1/15 to present breakout Tate McRae with a platinum plaque for single "you broke me first," while hoping nobody found out they were still in their pajama bottoms. Seen just before label chief Peter Edge dashed off a fleet of executive orders are (top row, l-r) RCA's Meg Kehoe, Steph Pensa, Nick Pirovano and John Fleckenstein and Hard 8's Dirk Hemsath; (second row) McRae, RCA's Linda Cangro and Jake Ottman, Hard 8's Matt Feldman, Edge and guest; (third row) RCA's Keith Naftaly, Hard 8's David Conway and RCA's Karen Lamberton, Jessie Maldonado and Nick Light; (fourth row) RCA's Katrin Weber, Ali Levy, Sabrina Rivera, Ally Cushing and Mika El-Baz; and (fifth row) RCA's Jen Tanner, Tarek Al-Hamdouni, Katherine Griffith, Carolyn Williams and Keith Rothschild.