Balogun’s fans continue to anticipate more good works from him. He did this along with other executives like Courtney Stewart, Jon Tanners and Jared Sherman, in the past.

With this being set in stone, a freshly retired. Balogun’s exit from RCA comes on the heels of the appointment of Columbia Records’ Imran Majid and Justin Eshak as co-CEOs of UMG’s Island Records in a deal to take effect from January 2022. The multinational’s CEO emerged as the top executive at Keep Cool Labe. He was named President & CEO of Def Jam Records, which is the Alpha & Omega of record labels in hip-hop. Hip-hop and R&B A&R heavyweight Tunji Balogun has taken the job as Def Jam Records’ new chairman and CEO, according to sources familiar with the situation. According to Variety, Balogun was hired by Def Jam after the music giant named Nicki Farag, a promotion veteran, as its executive VP and general manager. He has also gotten Dreamville and Sony to do a deal for Cozz, an American based Nigerian rapper. In the past 10 years, Balogun has been instrumental in getting TDE and RCA to do a deal for SZA. The label is also home to Normani, UMI, Lucky Daye and Freddie Gibbs. While there, he played a significant role in signing artists like H.E.R, Khalid, SZA, amongst others. The label has successfully signed a lot of remarkable artists like Rihanna, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Big Sean.īalogun joined his previous label RCA in 2015.

Balogun is replacing Eminem’s prominent manager, Paul Rosenberg. The new CEO will also deal with urban music. He will focus mainly on the creation and dissemination of hip hop. The American based Nigerian will be joining 35-year-old American music record label, as its new CEO. Nigerian American record label executive Tunji Balogun has emerged CEO of multinational record label Def Jam Records.īalogun started his career as an intern in international recording company Warner Brothers Records.

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