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Clive Ian Calder (born 13 December 1946) is a South African-British billionaire record executive and businessman primarily known for co-founding the Zomba Group with Ralph Simon, and its subsidiary Jive Records. As of October 2021, Calder has an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion.
Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group. In the US , the label had offices in New York City and Chicago .
In 2002, Jive Records' parent company, Zomba Music Group, was purchased by BMG for $2.7 billion. [18] Under BMG, Weiss was named the President and CEO of the newly formed Zomba Label Group. [6] [19] While in that position, he oversaw the careers of artists like Chris Brown, T-Pain, R. Kelly, and others. [20]
During Shaquille O’Neal’s ascent to professional basketball legend status, he was also a rapper with a multimillion-dollar record deal. In the 1990s, the four-time NBA championship ring holder ...
A team at Mercury Records also passed on Spears, which just left Jive Records, where only a handful of execs liked her demo tape. "It was in the wrong key," Steve Lunt, an A&R executive for Jive ...
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says its big payout to creators isn't changing — and explains how it will fight election denial in a Q&A with Peter Kafka.
Neil R. Portnow is an American music industry executive who served as the chairman and CEO of The Recording Academy and MusiCares from 2002 to 2019. Prior to that, Portnow was the vice-president of the West Coast division of Jive Records and Arista Records .
Zomba's record label, Jive Records signed the American musical artists the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. [1] In the mid-1990s, he was executive vice president of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records in Hollywood and started EMI Music 's global New Media division. [ 2 ]