Grammy-nominated executive Spring Aspers is President of Sony Pictures Music Group where she is responsible for all music initiatives including development, production and promotion.
In her position, Spring works with filmmakers to select songs, artists and composers for Sony Pictures’ films. For the Academy Award winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, she hired Post Malone and Swae Lee to write and record the song “Sunflower.” Since release, “Sunflower” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for Grammy’s Record of the Year and became the first recording to be certified 2x Diamond. Recently, Spring worked with Taylor Swift on soundtracks for Where the Crawdads Sing and It Ends With Us. For Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, she worked with composer Alexandre Desplat on the film’s Academy Award nominated score. Spring hired Eminem to contribute the title track for Sony/Marvel’s Venom which was certified 4x Platinum with over 2 billion streams. In 2023, Spring enlisted Metro Boomin to produce the acclaimed soundtrack for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, reaching nearly 3 billion streams globally. Last year, Spring worked with Will Gluck to feature Nastasha Beddingfield’s iconic song “Unwritten” in the global hit Anyone But You.
Spring is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She joined Sony in 2009 as Executive Vice President shepherding Diane Warren’s Golden Globe-winning song “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from Burlesque and John Legend’s Grammy-nominated song “Tonight (Best You Ever Had)” from Think Like a Man. Previously, Spring was Senior Vice President at Island/Def Jam Recordings. At Island/Def Jam, she produced the soundtrack for the 2002 film Spider-Man, including the Grammy-nominated worldwide hit “Hero.” Prior to her time at Island/Def Jam, Spring ran her own independent music supervision company. Originally from New York, she is a UCLA alumni and serves on Sony Pictures’ Action Council and Female Leadership Initiative.