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Thursday, September 24, 2015

ISLAND WEEKND

The Weeknd and Island Records friends celebrated a storming show for the fifth night of Apple Music Festival in London Wednesday. Abel was awarded a plaque for 1.4 million singles sold from Beauty Behind the Madness ("Can't Feel My Face", "Often", "Hills" and "Earned It") and 70m streams from those singles.

"Can you see me? Make sure you can see me!" shouts Island president Darcus Beese from the back, surrounded by faces including (l-r) Jon Turner (Island MD), Cash (Weeknd management), Island press chief Shane O'Neill, Nate Albert (Weeknd A&R, Republic U.S.), Darcus Beese, Liv Nunn, Monique Wallace and David Hawkes (all Island), Mass Voss (UMG VP Global Marketing), Andrea Edmondson (Island), Andrew Kronfeld (UMG President Global Marketing), Becky Richardson (Island), Universal leader David Joseph, Brian Sutnick (Republic International), Sal (The Weeknd manager) and Abel himself. Kneeling are Orla Gorman (International) and Islanders Hayley Marchant, Robyn Peters and Steve Pitron.

 
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