David Massey, the veteran document govt who re-launched the legendary document label Arista Data, is retiring from the corporate after seven years on the helm, Sony Music introduced on Monday.
Massey will keep on by way of the top of June. Sony Music hasn’t introduced Massey’s substitute however confirmed that there’s a succession plan, and that Arista would stay a standalone label inside the Sony system.
“It has been an incredible honor to spend this chapter of my profession again at Sony Music, working with Rob Stringer, a visionary govt for whom I’ve the utmost admiration, and with the extraordinary Sony household worldwide,” Massey mentioned in a press release. “Having began the label from scratch almost seven years in the past, I’m so happy with the achievements of the group at Arista and our nice younger artists. I do know that Arista will go from energy to energy sooner or later.”
Sony had appointed Massey because the president of Arista again in 2018, seven years after Sony had shuttered the label. Initially based by famed document govt Clive Davis in 1974, Arista served as house to artists together with Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin and Barry Manilow. Throughout Massey’s tenure, the label signed artists inlcuding JP Saxe, Lola Brooke and Måneskin — who reached worldwide fame with their cowl of the 4 Seasons’ “Beggin” — incomes a Grammy nomination for Finest New Artist.
Earlier than taking the helm at Arista, Massey served as CEO of UMG’s Island Data, working with artists together with Shawn Mendes, Demi Lovato and Fall Out Boy amongst others. Earlier than then, he was the president of Mercury Data, and an A&R govt inside Sony.
“It has been a privilege to work with David on the rebirth of Arista,” Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer mentioned in a press release. “In two totally different eras at Sony Music, David has been a vastly revered key senior govt for the corporate worldwide and as a buddy and colleague in each these eras I want him all of the happiness in his retirement. Arista will proceed to develop from the roots he has developed.”
