![]() ![]() (Photo: Chelsea Lauren/Variety/Shutterstock) Justin Lubliner with Billie Eilish at Universal’s GRAMMY Awards after party. In her Variety Hitmaker of the Year speech in December 2019, Eilish said: “I wanna thank my team, my label, managers Danny and Brandon, who have always trusted me, my label guy Justin, who was like the only person I trusted to begin with - and that’s no shade to anyone, but I feel like he saw something in me.” “And when I say we, I mean not only Billie but Billie’s managers and my team and myself.” We just had a great yin and yang,” he said. “I trusted her creativity and her vision and her music, and she trusted my ideas to build her and get her music heard by the public. I didn’t want to change anything I just wanted to help.” “Being so young I’m sure the expectation was for somebody to come in and change things. “I think Billie and I were aligned from the start,” Lubliner said. Lubliner said that he and Eilish have a unique business relationship. “If it doesn’t happen, there is still so much to be excited about, and that’s kind of how I went into it.” ![]() “When you have an artist who is having a lot of great moments in their career, you have to sit back and enjoy each moment as an individual win,” said Lubliner, who was prepared for any outcome at the GRAMMYs. Leading up to the GRAMMY Awards, Eilish had won two American Music Awards, she was named Billboard’s woman of the year (she set a record with 14 simultaneous Hot 100 tracks by a female artist), and earned the honor of Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year. The album’s songs have been streamed over five billion times on Spotify, and the single “Bad Guy” alone has been streamed over a billion times on the platform. 1 in 17 countries upon its release in March 2019 and eventually went double-platinum. Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? hit No. He did everything in his power to let her, her team, and her family know that Darkroom was the right partner to help her become the biggest artist in the world. “Having met with so many artists in my career, you start to get this instinct radar, and mine was at 100 percent when I met her,” he said. Lubliner said his reaction to Eilish’s music felt instinctual. Hearing her perform for the first time I was just blown away.” She had a very unique and complete vision. “And then meeting her, she was wise beyond her years. Also how young she was and how sophisticated her sound was,” he said. “I guess it was a combination of her left-of-center and interesting voice and sound, mixed with catchy records, a pop sensibility and this indie appeal that I thought would be magnetic to fans. Lubliner and his team at Darkroom/Interscope Records have been on a wild ride with Eilish since she was 14 and Lubliner discovered her song “Ocean Eyes” on a blog. At 18, she’s the youngest artist ever to sweep the big four at the GRAMMYs, and also the youngest to record a track for the Bond franchise. Eilish’s theme song for the upcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die, recently topped the UK singles chart. At the time, there weren’t many young label entrepreneurs out there.” Launching Music’s Biggest Star “A lot of people my age and friends who are successful in this business started in the management lane. Lubliner thinks his entrepreneurial path has set him apart. In 2019, Forbes named Lubliner in their annual 30 Under 30 list of young power players in music for turning “his fledgling music company into a growing force encompassing artist management and its own Interscope imprint, Darkroom Records.” In 2016, Billboard included him in its 40 Under 40 Rising Stars. With all of his success thus far, the industry has taken notice. In 2014, Interscope Records CEO John Janick partnered with Lubliner to launch his own imprint - a rare feat for a 24-year-old. At 20, he developed a marketing and PR company while at the USC Thornton School of Music that evolved into The Darkroom. He started his first music company at 14. It was pretty awesome.”Įven at his young age, Lubliner sees himself as a veteran. “It was probably the best moment of my life. 26, 2020, Lubliner, in his own words, “went crazy.” “I was the guy everyone was looking at, screaming and jumping in my seat, for sure,” he said. Hearing her name called five times (the fifth award being for best vocal pop album) at the GRAMMY Awards on Jan. Yes, that artist is music’s newest star, Billie Eilish. At 29, he watched the second artist he signed to his record label, Darkroom Records, sweep the big four categories at the GRAMMY Awards (album, song, record and best new artist) - for only the second time in the history of the Recording Academy’s awards. Justin Lubliner (BS ’12) has carved his own path in the music industry, and it’s a fast track. Justin Lubliner built one of the industry’s most forward-thinking labels behind music’s newest star.
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