Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs previously reported by Variety, Imran Majid and Justin Eshak officially have been appointed Co-CEOs of Universal Music Group’s legendary Island Records label, effective Jan.
1, 2022.Eshak and Majid will join Island from Columbia Records, where they were previously co-heads of A&R.The appointment, effective January 1, 2022, marks a return to UMG for Majid and Eshak, who met at UMG’s Republic Records in 2004 where they worked as A&R executives.
Majid and Eshak will be based at Island’s headquarters in New York and report to UMG Chairman & CEO Lucian Grainge.Majid joined Columbia in 2013, signed rapper Lil Tjay and worked closely with rapper Russ, pop singer Rachel Platten and duo Ayo & Teo.
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