WSJ News Exclusive | Warner Music CEO Steve Cooper to step down next year

Warner Music Group Corporation Chief Executive Steve Cooper Will exit the company next year, the music company’s longest-serving CEO told employees in an email.

His 11 years at the helm of the world’s third-largest music company by sales came during a tumultuous and then vibrant time for Warner Music and the industry. Mr. Cooper inherited a company that was in decline and then made his turnaround Embracing StreamingDue to which the company doubled its revenue and took market share from bigger competitors.