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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]
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.
By early 2008, the BMG Label Group was said to consist of RCA Records, Jive Records, J Records, LaFace, Arista, Volcano Entertainment, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo Yo Soul. [3] [4] In April 2008, Jive head Barry Weiss was promoted to chairman and CEO of the whole BMG Label Group, a position he still held since the groups rebranding.
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 ...
In October 2011 Jive Records was shut down and their artists were moved to RCA Records. [ 5 ] Founded independently in the mid-seventies by Clive Calder and Ralph Simon , the group has had interests in music release, distribution, production, publishing, equipment rental, recording studios, and artist management.
The group signed with Jive Records and managed by Russell Simmons, who also handled Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow. Their first single was Magic’s Wand, a tribute to early hip-hop DJ Mr. Magic.
The Lawrence singers got their start singing backup for Feargal Sharkey before signing with Jive Records and found brief success as the UK struggled to compete with America’s own thriving hip ...