Ariana Grande has cut up with longtime supervisor Scooter Braun, sources near the state of affairs inform Billboard.
Grande has been with Braun and his SB Tasks since 2013, the 12 months she launched her breakthrough debut album, Yours Really. Information of the cut up comes the identical day Billboard realized that Demi Lovato, who signed with SB Tasks in 2019, had parted methods with Braun. It’s unclear whether or not Grande is severing all enterprise ties with Braun exterior of administration.
The cut up was first reported by Puck‘s Matthew Belloni on X (previously often known as Twitter).
Representatives for Grande and Braun declined to remark.
The connection between Grande and Braun spans the whole lot of Grande’s post-Nickelodeon profession — a interval throughout which the singer launched a complete of six albums, all however one in all which has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Additionally throughout that point, she has notched 20 high 10 hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100, seven of which went to No. 1.
Grande, who hasn’t launched an album since 2020’s Positions, is at the moment ramping up for the tenth anniversary of Yours Really, which is able to embody the discharge of a deluxe digital launch of the album on Friday (Aug. 25), in addition to newly recorded dwell performances of “Honeymoon Avenue” and “Daydreamin’.” Extra dwell performances and merch drops will observe. Outdoors of music, she was a coach on The Voice in 2021 and can star within the two-part movie adaptation of musical Depraved, the primary a part of which is slated to debut in November 2024.
In 2021, Braun bought SB Tasks’ mother or father firm Ithaca Holdings to South Korean leisure conglomerate HYBE, underneath which SB Tasks has continued to function. Braun is now HYBE America’s CEO and earlier this 12 months helped oversee HYBE’s buy of main hip-hop label High quality Management.
SB Tasks’ artist roster at the moment consists of longtime shopper Justin Bieber. Following a report Friday (Aug. 18) that Bieber was seeking to depart SB, reps for each events instructed Billboard that such “rumors” had been “not true.”
J Balvin, who additionally signed with Braun in 2019, left in Could and is now managed by Roc Nation.
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