Sony Music UK has promoted Phil Savill to the new role of managing director of its Commercial Music Group (CMG).

His promotion comes after CMG, in 2015, was named the biggest label in the UK for the first time in its history, recording an 11.9% market share in the albums sector. 

Savill (pictured, left), who joined the firm as a commercial product manager in 1990, has been its marketing VP since 2013 and has managed a host of ...