# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucian-grainge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:48.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucian-grainge"
name: "Lucian Grainge"
slug: "lucian-grainge"
description: "Sir Lucian Charles Grainge is a British record executive who has served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Universal Music Group since 2010. Beginning as an A&R staffer in the late 1970s, Grainge has worked in the music industry his entire career. Billboard magazine named him the most powerful person in the music business on eight occasions, as well as the inaugural Executive of the Decade in 2020. In 2025, Variety ranked him among the top ten in its '120 Most Powerful Executives in Entertainment' list."
tagline: "British music executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucian_Grainge_at_State_of_the_Entertainment_Industry_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1960-02-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.03
  momentum:             7.63819095477387
  historical:           6.257822666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "لوسین گرینج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "لوسيان جراينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Grainge"
    title: "Lucian Grainge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Люсіан Грейндж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Grainge"
    title: "Lucian Grainge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Grainge"
    title: "Lucian Grainge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3265178"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump