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With Smashes From Post Malone, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and More, Republic Records Racks Up Another Dominant Year
With Taylor Swift, Post Malone and more, Republic Records has been Variety's Hitmakers Label of the Year five out of the last eight years.
“Dynasty” is a big word — one thinks of the New York Yankees (well, maybe not this year), MGM Pictures, Motown — and Republic Records is deep into its reign. Over the years they’ve forged similar partnerships with Big Loud Records (Morgan Wallen, who is present on four songs in the Hitmakers top 25), the Korean companies HYBE (Tomorrow X Together) and JYP (Stray Kids, Twice), Lava Records (Lorde, Greta Van Fleet), most recently Jelly Roll and BMG and more — even Swift, who has two songs in the top 25. With the Lipmans’ new roles as heads of Republic Corps — and veteran lieutenant Jim Roppo as president-COO — it includes the Republic label (headed by longtime A&R chief Wendy Goldstein), Island (with co-CEOs Imran Majid and Justin Eshak), Mercury (under Post Malone’s longtime A&R Tyler Arnold and GM Ben Adelson), Def Jam (under Tunji Balogun) and Imperial (under Astralwerks veteran Glenn Mendlinger).
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