Knotting Hill: Nashville-based Sony Music Publishing (SMP) VP/Global Royalties Shane Knotts has been upped to SVP. “Shane’s application of lean principles and love of making everything more efficient has allowed SMP to continually handle increasing volumes of data smoothly and proficiently for our songwriters and clients," says EVP/Worldwide Administration Dale Esworthy, to whom Knotts reports. Knotts joined the company in 1994 as Mgr./Royalty.