• EMI named to new top executives yesterday. JF Cecillon will become chairman and chief executive of the newly established EMI Music International unit, which will oversee Asia, Latin America and Australia and New Zealand. Ian Hanson was promoted to to the global role of chief operating officer of EMI Music. Both will report directly to Eric Nicoli, the executive chairman of EMI Group was named CEO of EMI Music. Nicoli seems to want to be very hands on with the underporming U.S. units; North America business will report directly to Nicolo. (Read article at Billboard.biz)

• While we wait for legit P2P service Qtrax to arrive, parent compay Brilliant Technologies has named Andrew Nibley to a newly formed advisory board. Nibley is currently Chairman and CEO of Marsteller and formerly was the head of GetMusic, the online music service founded by BMG and Universal Music Group in 1999. More advisory board members will be announced shortly. (Read press release)

• Hartmut Ostrowski was named CEO of Bertelsmann, parent of BMG Music. Ostrowski follows Thomas Middelhoff. (Read article at BusinessWeek.com)