, the long-serving chairman/CEO of Sony Music U.K. and Ireland, has been announced as this year’s recipient of the U.K.’s Music Industry Trusts Award in recognition of his contribution to the British record business.Sony Music U.K. in 2014 following a brief stint as president of Roc Nation Records in New York City, will receive the award on Nov. 4 at a gala ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. The event will benefit U.K.
Over three decades in the record business, Iley has served in senior roles at Polydor, Island Records and Mercury Records, where he was president from 2005 to 2013 and worked closely with U2, Jay-Z, Elton John, Rihanna, Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Mariah Carey, among others. Since then, Iley has led the U.K. arm of Sony Music to sustained chart success and oversaw the company’sleading independent electronic music label Ministry of Sound Records in 2016, as well as last year’s relaunch of Epic Records U.K. as a front-line label. ’ 10 weeks at No. 1 with “Flowers” — the top song in the United Kingdom last year with 198 million streams, according to the Official Charts Company.