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Retiring Arista CEO David Massey Shares His Top 10 Career Highlights: Oasis, Shawn Mendes, Shakira and More
Retiring Arista CEO David Massey reveals behind-the-scenes stories on Oasis, Shawn Mendes, Shakira, Avicii and more as he exits the record business.
This coming Monday (June 30), Arista Records president/CEO David Massey will retire from the Sony imprint he relaunched seven years ago, concluding a career of more than four decades in the music industry spanning generations, genres and continents. Over the past 40 years, the Brit has gone from London to New York worked with artists who have changed the culture like Shakira and Oasis, expanded the parameters of boy bands such as Jonas Brothers and released music that became an anthem for an era with JP Saxe ’s pandemic smash, “If the World Was Ending,” featuring Julia Michaels. They had [global hit] “Beggin’.” There’s never been an Italian rock band blowing up worldwide and getting nominated for a Grammy for best new artist and being on SNL and selling out Madison Square Garden.
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