Gary Spangler
Gary Spangler is an American music executive and the executive vice president of Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group. Career Spangler began his career in the music industry at age 17 in 1996 as a DJ working in Santa Cruz, California. From 1997 to 2006, he worked at music promotion company Lawman Promotions in San Francisco. He later became vice president of the company. He also worked for KYLD, based in the same city. In 2006, he joined Republic Records as vice president of crossover promotion, where he created campaigns for Drake, Taylor Swift, and Lil Wayne, among others. In 2012, he was named senior vice president promotion & operations. He became executive vice president of promotion in 2016, overseeing promotion and strategy for Republic Records and Island Records. In 2021, he was promoted to executive vice president of Republic. Notable features In 2015, he was featured on '' Billboard's'' Forty Under Forty Power Players list. He appeared on '' Variety' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Republic Records
Republic Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Based in New York City, it was founded by Avery Lipman and Monte Lipman as an independent label in 1995, and was acquired by UMG in 2000. Republic was initially an imprint of the Universal Motown Republic Group, and was renamed Universal Republic Records after a reorganization in 2006 before going back to its original name in 2012. History Foundation and Universal Records: 1994–2005 According to Avery Lipman, he and his brother Monte conceived the idea for Republic Records at their apartment in New York. Lipman stated that both had previously been employed by record companies and were in between jobs at the time. They began putting records out as a hobby, the first of which was the Bloodhound Gang's '' Dingleberry Haze''. Republic Records was formed in 1995 as a subsidiary of MCA's Geffen Records, but soon after its foundation, the distribution changed to the newly established Universa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande-Butera ( ; born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon and an influential figure in popular music, Grande is known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register. List of awards and nominations received by Ariana Grande, Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, three American Music Awards, 39 ''Guinness World Records'', and ten MTV Video Music Awards. The Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female, world's highest-paid female musician in 2020, Grande has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Grande began her career as a teenage actress by appearing in the Broadway theatre, Broadway musical ''13 (musical), 13'' (2008), and rose to fame as Cat Valentine (Victorious), Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Music Industry Executives
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Living People
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Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (; ; born March 3, 1997) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the Pop music, pop girl group Fifth Harmony, one of the List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling girl groups of all time. While in the group, Cabello established herself as a solo artist with collaborative singles "I Know What You Did Last Summer (song), I Know What You Did Last Summer" (with Shawn Mendes) and "Bad Things (Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello song), Bad Things" (with Machine Gun Kelly (rapper), Machine Gun Kelly), the latter making number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. She left Fifth Harmony in late 2016. Cabello's debut studio album, ''Camila (album), Camila'' (2018), peaked atop the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. Largely influenced by Latin music, its lead single "Havana (Camila Cabello song), Havana" (featuring Young Thug) was an international chart-topper. It was the List of best-selling si ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes ( , ; born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian singer. He gained a following in 2013 when he posted song covers on the video-sharing platform Vine (software), Vine. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gertler and Island Records A&R Ziggy Chareton, which led to him signing a deal with the record label. Mendes's The Shawn Mendes EP, self-titled debut EP was released in 2014, followed by his debut studio album ''Handwritten (Shawn Mendes album), Handwritten'' in 2015. ''Handwritten'' debuted atop the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, making Mendes one of five artists ever to debut at number one before the age of 18. The single "Stitches (Shawn Mendes song), Stitches" reached number one in the UK and the top 10 in the US and Canada. Mendes's second album ''Illuminate (Shawn Mendes album), Illuminate'' (2016) also debuted at number one in the US, with its singles "Treat You Better (Shawn Mendes song), Treat You Better" and "There ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thank U, Next (song)
"Thank U, Next" is a song by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was released without prior announcement on November 3, 2018, by Republic Records as the lead single from her fifth studio album of the same name. Written by Grande, Tayla Parx and Victoria Monét, and produced by Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson, and Michael Foster, "Thank U, Next" is a celebratory ode to Grande's failed relationships, following the highly publicized breakup with her then-fiancé Pete Davidson. Considered a modern cultural phenomenon, the song's title and its lyrics spawned several catch phrases and online memes. Grande originally wrote the song while engaged to Davidson, during a tumultuous point in their relationship. Several versions of the song were recorded due to the uncertainty of her relationship with Davidson at the time, as well as hesitation from Parx regarding whether Grande should list the names of her exes in the song's lyrics. Upon release, "Thank U, Next" was met with crit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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7 Rings
"7 Rings" is a song by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was released on January 18, 2019, by Republic Records as the second single from her fifth studio album '' Thank U, Next'' (2019). The song was written by Grande, Victoria Monét, Tayla Parx, Njomza, and Kaydence, alongside its producers Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson, and Michael Foster, with additional writing credits going to Rodgers and Hammerstein for an interpolation of their showtune " My Favorite Things" from ''The Sound of Music.'' "7 Rings" broke numerous streaming records upon release. It debuted at number-one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Grande's second consecutive number-one in the United States. The single ultimately became her top-performing song on the chart, spending eight weeks at number one and 33 weeks on the chart overall. It has been certified as Diamond by the RIAA, Grande's first solo single and overall second single to be certified Diamond. Globally, the song reached the nu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Post Malone
Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including hip-hop, Pop music, pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B, Trap music, trap, and Country music, country. His stage name was created when he put his birth name into a rap name generator. He began his musical career in 2011, and began to gain recognition with his 2015 debut single "White Iverson", which peaked at number 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. He then signed with Republic Records and then released his debut studio album ''Stoney (album), Stoney'' (2016), which peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and included the RIAA certification, diamond-certified single "Congratulations (Post Malone song), Congratulations" (featuring Quavo). His second album, ''Beerbongs & Bentleys'' (2018), debuted atop the ''Billboard'' 200 and set numerous Streaming media ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands, and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the "Record label#Major labels, Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its Initial public offering, IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The French Vincent Bolloré, Bolloré family still owns 28 percent of UMG (18 percent directly, and ten percent through Vive ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |