Scott Ambrose Reilly: Difference between revisions

| image =Scott aka bullethead.jpg

| employer =X5The Music GroupOrchard

Raised in [[San Diego, California]], Scott Ambrose Reilly started his music career as a fan, and spent much of the late 1980s following artists such as [[Mojo Nixon]] to gigs.<ref name="mcsr"/> Nixon soon hired him to help on tour,<ref name="mcsr"/> and from there he became Nixon's long-term manager. He also appeared in the choir of several of his [[psychobilly]] albums, such as 1989's ''[[Root Hog or Die (album)|Root Hog or Die]]''.<ref name="mcsr"/>

In 2000 Reilly became Executiveexecutive Directordirector of Digital Club Festival, the four -day launch event for Digital Club Network, or DCN. DCN was a New York-based website that [[webcast]] live from 54 music venues across the country, making it the world's largest webcaster of live music at the time.<ref name="bio"/> Digital Club Network also offered paid music downloads and a few live CDs by artists such as the [[Meat Puppets]] on its own label.<ref name="cr"/>

From 2000 to 2003 he was Senior VP of venue/artist licensing and relations of DCN, and he became Presidentpresident in 2003. In 2004 he oversaw DCN's acquisition by [[eMusic]].<ref name="srlinkedin"/> Reilly was named Senior VP of Content Acquisition and Label Relations, and the eMusic catalog grew from 400,000 tracks to 1.5million tracks, making it the largest [[Digital rights management|DRM]]-free catalog in the world.<ref name="srlinkedin"/>

In September 2006, he moved to [[Seattle]] to oversee the launched of [[Amazon MP3]] in the [[United States]], [[England]], [[Denmark]], [[France]], [[AustiraAustria]], [[Switzerland]], and [[China]].<ref name="srlinkedin"/> Hired as Seniorsenior Managermanager of Digitaldigital Musicmusic at [[Amazon.com]],<ref name="cnetreilly"/> Reilly oversaw content deals, operations and helped maintain relationships with labels.<ref name="cnetreilly"/>

In April of 2010 he left Amazon MP3 to work on the Amazon division Kindle.<ref name="srlinkedin"/> He stated he had overseen more than 10,000 digital licensing deals at that point in his career.<ref name="cnetreilly"/>

While at Kindle he worked as Seniorsenior Managermanager for global business development.<ref name="srlinkedin"/> However, one year later he announced he was leaving Amazon to serve as the U.S. CEO of [[X5 Music Group]]. His reasons were again amicable towards Amazon, with him stating: "I loved working at Amazon and their singular focus on the customer taught me a great deal. But the lure of working with a music great company who have had successes in digital music was just too strong."<ref name="hypebot"/>

As North American CEO of X5 Music Group,<ref name="dining"/> Reilly helped launch the division in the [[Empire State Building]]<ref name="forbesdining"/><ref name="diningforbes"/> and expanded its catalogue of compilations.<ref name="bio"/> In 2011 X5 was the No. 2 classical music label on the US charts, second only to [[Universal Music]].<ref name="mp"/> Also in 2011 the classical label began branching into genres such as [[folk music|folk]], [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]],<ref name="wsf"/> [[blues]], and [[jazz]],<ref name="ibt"/> and forming partnerships with non-classical labels such as [[Sun Records]], whose back catalog included artists such as [[Johnny Cash]] and [[Jerry Lee Lewis]].<ref name="ibt"/> In November of 2011 X5 released one of its most successful albums, ''[[The Greatest Video Game Music]],'' performed by the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]].<ref name="bbone"/> It received praise from ''[[IGN]]''<ref name="remw"/> and was named "weirdest hit album" of 2011 by ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref name="bbtwo"/>

At X5 Reilly manages relationships with digital music services including iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, [[Deezer]], [[Xbox Music]], [[MOG (online music)|MOG]], [[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]] for USA, EU, Australia, Asia and ROW.<ref name="srlinkedin"/> About X5's marketing strategy, Reilly has stated "you have to pay attention to the [outlets]. iTunes wants things to be designed well and look good. Amazon [likes] value and convenience. Spotify is search-based, so we created an app to browse classical music, and other apps are on the way."<ref name="dining"/> Reilly oversaw the launch in early 2012 of Classify, an [[Application software|app]] created through a partnership with X5 and Spotify that helps music browsers discover classical music.<ref name="ibt"/>

X5 announced in April 2013 that it had started [[X5 Music Group#U5 partnership|U5]], a joint venture with the music conglomerate Universal Music Group, headed by Reilly. It gave X5 access to over 50,000 of Universal’sUniversal's classical tracks, and another 50,000 jazz and blues songs.<ref name="sisario"/>

| newspaper = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]

| date = August 077, 2012

| url = httphttps://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/arts/music/cheap-compilations-make-classical-pay-for-x5-music-group.html?_r=0

| url = httphttps://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2011/10/25/how-tiny-x5-music-group-is-slaying-label-goliaths-on-the-billboard-charts/

| url = httphttps://onlinewww.wsj.com/articlearticles/SB10001424053111904009304576534711415540824.html

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