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431:. East West Records was revived in the UK in 2014 under the direction of Max Lousada, Chairman & CEO, Warner Music UK. The resurrected label was headed up by Dan Chalmers (as President for Rhino UK, East West Records and ADA UK) until being poached by former Warner Music Group CEO Lyor Cohen, for YouTube Music in 2019. By 2021, Jeremy Marsh was head of Rhino UK and East West Records, with Westlife being announced as new signings on St Patrick's Day. Other acts to have signed to the reactivated heritage label in the last six years include 154: 43: 406:
in America. At the time, East West (along with most of its roster) also broke away from the Atlantic umbrella to continue to operate under Rhone at Elektra. By the new millennium, budget cuts at Warner Music Group resulted in East West being absorbed into Elektra, where some of its acts were shifted
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In 2005, WMG reactivated the East West imprint as an in-house label, which primarily markets and distributes other rock music-based labels. East West today operates under Warner's
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was appointed Chair/CEO of the fledgling label. Under Rhone's leadership, EastWest Records America shot to mega success with several multiplatinum acts such as
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Below is a selected list of musical artists signed under the East West Records label in the past and present.
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had been reorganized or closed down, found themselves on the new EastWest label, with newer signings such as
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Subsequently, more budget cuts were made, this time resulting in Elektra to be absorbed into Atlantic.
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For the 1956–1958 music label also originally owned by Atlantic Records, see
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and went into hibernation until 1990, when Atlantic revamped the imprint as
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In 1994, Rhone was appointed Chairman & CEO of Atlantic's sister label
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returned after 15 years on their own label to release the
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sold Warner Music Group to private investors led by
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