
In 2016, his music label, We the Best Music Group, was signed to Epic Records, a division of the Sony empire. He has produced videos with the likes of Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Chance the Rapper and Drake - just to name just a few. Since 2006, Khaled has released 10 albums. His most recent, "Grateful," which dropped in June, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, ranking the most popular albums in the U.S. Khaled brought in $24 million in total pretax earnings in the 12 months ending in June, according to Forbes' September 2017 ranking of the wealthiest hip hop stars.Īnd Khaled's embraced the good life: He has a small collection of Rolls-Royces, for example. Khaled is everywhere - and it's paid off nicely. In mid-February, Khaled announced via social media he'd lost 29.2 pounds so far.īut it's not just Weight Watchers. "By capturing and sharing his process, he will enliven and inspire his community." "DJ Khaled has an incredibly authentic drive and passion to inspire others through his wellness journey and experiences" on Weight Watchers, said Mindy Grossman, president and chief executive officer of Weight Watchers International, in a statement. Can't wait to see you #blessup this program On January 2, the day after the deal was announced, the brand's stock rose 8 percent.

According to a March 2017 Wired story, his posts on the platform were seen by 3 million to 4 million people each at the time. (Snapchat does not share follower counts.) Khaled now has more than 9 million followers on Instagram and more than 4 million on Twitter.ĭoubtless it was Khaled's social reach and influence with the millennial set (as well as men) that helped score him a spot as a Weight Watchers ambassador alongside Oprah Winfrey, who owns 10 percent of the company. On June 25, there was a shareholder phone call that Scott Swift did not participate in due to a very strict NDA that bound all shareholders and prohibited any discussion at all without risk of severe penalty.That's certainly been the case with Snapchat. He claimed that he doubted that she “woke up to the news when everyone else did”.Ī spokesperson for Swift challenged Borchetta's narrative, telling People, "Scott Swift is not on the board of directors and has never been. (It is not known where Swift’s father sat on the situation.)īorchetta also claimed he personally texted Swift on June 29th, prior to the news breaking on June 30th, so she could “hear it directly from ”. She said, “Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy.”Īddressing Swift’s essay, he explained that Swift’s father was “a shareholder in Big Machine Records” and that he had been invited to a shareholders call on June 25th.īorchetta claimed that the shareholders “were made aware of the pending deal with Ithaca Holdings and had 3 days to go over all of the details of the proposed transaction”, culminating in a final call on June 28th “in which the transaction passed with a majority vote and 3 of the 5 shareholders voting ‘yes’ with 92% of the shareholder’s vote”. Besides Bieber’s Instagram post, she claimed that he was behind “Kim Kardashian orchestrating an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked” and described West’s video Famous as a “revenge porn music video which strips my body naked”. Swift claimed that she was the victim of “incessant, manipulative bullying.at hands for years”. He’s about to own all the music I’ve ever made.” Bieber later took down the post. Swift annotated Bieber’s post, writing, “This is Scooter Braun, bullying me on social media when I was at my lowest point.

Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyrics, ‘I made that b**ch famous.’”) (Following the song and call leak, Swift’s representative claimed to People that she eventually “declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. The call was recorded by West’s wife, Kim Kardashian West. The 2016 post, which was later deleted, followed in the wake of West releasing his music video Famous, which depicted a naked Taylor Swift (with included the lyrics “I feel like Taylor Swift still owe me sex / Why? I made that b**ch famous”) and an illegally recorded phone call between West and Swift in which the singer told West that he had to “tell the story that way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it”. Swift prefaced her blog post with an old infamous Instagram post by Justin Bieber, which was a screenshot of Braun facetiming him with Kanye West. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
