WEISS GUY: Lips are flapping about last week’s assertion in the N.Y. Post that RCA/Jive topper Barry Weiss will leave if he doesn’t get the Sony Music chairmanship—and it’s thought to be unlikely that either Weiss or Rob Stringer will be chosen, though the new CEO will obviously want Weiss to stay on in his current role. There’s much conversation about Weiss taking a post in UMG’s East Coast operation, and about how big a post that may be. (10/22p)