# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wassim-slaiby
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:25.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wassim-slaiby"
name: "Wassim Slaiby"
slug: "wassim-slaiby"
description: "Wassim Joseph Slaiby, also known as Sal, is a Lebanese-Canadian record executive, talent manager, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded the record label XO with Canadian singer the Weeknd in 2011, for whom he has also managed for since. Furthermore, Slaiby is the founder and CEO of Universal Arabic Music, which he launched in 2021 in partnership with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group."
tagline: "Lebanese-Canadian music industry executive and talent manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wassim_Slaiby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1979-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.75
  momentum:             3.212809917355372
  historical:           4.071465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassim_Slaiby"
    title: "Wassim Slaiby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassim_Slaiby"
    title: "Wassim Slaiby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassim_Slaiby"
    title: "Wassim Slaiby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "وسیم سلیبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24190162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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