Big Yellow Dog Music Promotes Nicole Rhodes in the Sync Department and Claire Karliak in the Label Services Department

NASHVILLE, TN - Big Yellow Dog Music has announced two promotions – Nicole Rhodes to Manager, Sync and Claire Karliak to Manager, Label Services. Rhodes joined BYDM in 2019 and was previously Senior Coordinator, Sync while Karliak joined in 2020 and previously worked as Senior Coordinator, Label Services.

In the last year, Karliak has overseen releases by Big Yellow Dog Music artists Logan Mize, Brandon Davis, Daniel Tashian and more while setting up BYDM artist Karen Elson’s new album. 

The BYD Sync team has had many successes the past few years including placing Leah Nobel’s “Beginning Middle End” in Netflix's rom-com To All The Boys: Always And Forever, which surpassed 50 million streams and earned a nomination for Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television at the 12th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards and Best Musical Moment at the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards among others. Most recently they secured four placements in HBO Max's film Moonshot including Karen Elson's "Broken Shadow" and two songs written for the film by Daniel Tashian and Elson. 

"Nicole has been such an important asset to our Sync department over the last few years. She has an amazing ear for music and has been successful in placing songs in spots ranging from HBO promos to IKEA to Hulu's How I Met Your Father. I can't wait to see her continue to find sync success for our writers.", said Alex Stefano, VP, Sync.

"Claire has shown continued growth in all areas of our label business. She is willing to tackle anything that comes her way and is a real asset to our team," said co-owner and CEO Carla Wallace.

Rhodes’ new responsibilities include a greater focus on communicating with music supervisors in film, TV and trailers as well as overseeing the development of the company’s sync writers, artist and producers. A native of Illinois, Rhodes graduated as an Entertainment Industry Studies and Music Business major from Belmont University in 2020, where she interned at BYDM.

In Karliak’s new role as Manager, Label Services, she will work directly with Big Yellow Dog Music’s DSP and Distribution partners with responsibility for developing and implementing their artist project planning and digital advertising. Originally from Ohio, Karliak graduated from Belmont University as a Music Business major in 2019. While at Belmont, she interned at Big Machine, Crowd Surf, and The Bluebird Cafe, in addition to participating in Up 'Til Dawn, a student organization that aids the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

ABOUT BIG YELLOW DOG MUSIC:

Big Yellow Dog Music is an independent music publishing, record label, and artist development company based in Nashville, TN. Over its 20 years of experience their artist-writers have won 10 GRAMMYs (including Best New Artist and all-genre Song of the Year “Need You Now”) and received an additional 17 GRAMMY nominations. Other accolades include 40 number one songs, four Song of the Year awards (ACM, BMI, and two ASCAP), an ASCAP Global Award, five ASCAP/BMI Pop awards, and many more.

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