RCA pre-presentation

THE NIPPER CHORALE: "OK, everyone," RCA EVP/GM Joe Riccitelli says to artists Pentatonix, Becky G and Hilary Duff just before presenting them at the Clear Channel music meetings in New York, "When we get out there I want to hear a nice, crisp 'Hey Buddy' sung as an A-flat minor ninth chord." Later, Riccitelli felt an enormous disturbance in the Force when somebody's spins got upped in Poughkeepsie. (8/7p)