Hitmakers’ Executive of the Year Elliot Grainge on His First Year as Atlantic CEO, the Success of Alex Warren and the Marías, and Overcoming the Haters

Last year, when Elliot Grainge was named the new CEO of Atlantic Music Group, the move was controversial, to put it mildly. It’s not hard to see why: He’s the son of Universal Music chairman Lucian Grainge — one of Atlantic parent company Warner Music’s two main competitors — and his prior label experience was based […]