HAVING sold millions of records and racked up a vast fortune in the process, Simon Cowell’s exit from his music company lays bare how dramatic his fall from grace has been.
The nation’s most famous record boss, who once had pop’s Midas touch, decided to offload his stake in Syco to Sony — signalling the final surrender of his grasp on the charts.
His move this week is the end of an era which has seen global success with acts including One Direction, Little Mix, Westlife and Leona Lewis, who have sold almost 200million records between them.
But despite Simon’s showbiz smile and a personal wealth of £385million, those in the industry have long suspected the wheels were about to fall off the Syco juggernaut — not least as its sales figures.
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