37 Facts About Jimmy Iovine

James Iovine is an American entrepreneur, former record executive, and media proprietor.

Jimmy Iovine has been involved in the production of more than 250 albums.

Jimmy Iovine was purchased by Apple Inc for $3 billion in May 2014.

Jimmy Iovine is credited or named in institutional education centers such as the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy, which inaugurated in 2013, and the Iovine and Young Center, a magnet high school which opened in Los Angeles in August 2022.

James Jimmy Iovine was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, to an Italian working-class family.

Jimmy Iovine's mother was a secretary and his father, Vincent Iovine, worked on the docks as a longshoreman.

Jimmy Iovine attended a Catholic school in Brooklyn, graduating from the since-closed Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School and went on to attend New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Jimmy Iovine was introduced to music production after he met a songwriter who helped him find a job as a recording studio cleaner, and he soon began working as an engineer.

Jimmy Iovine came to prominence through his work on Patti Smith's album Easter, which included her Top 40 hit "Because the Night".

Jimmy Iovine later collaborated with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle and Hum.

Jimmy Iovine produced Bella Donna, Making Movies for Dire Straits, The Distance for Bob Seger and Get Close for The Pretenders.

Jimmy Iovine served as sound engineer for the Voyager Golden Records, a pair of phonograph records that were launched aboard the Voyager space probes in 1977.

Jimmy Iovine chose to not profit off the album and instead used the money from album sales to help fund Special Olympics programs.

Jimmy Iovine was responsible for supervising the music used in the 1984 romance film Sixteen Candles, Streets of Fire and the 1988 comedy film Scrooged.

In 1989, Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field, founder of film production label Interscope Communications, co-founded Interscope Records.

Jimmy Iovine, as stated on the 2017 HBO documentary, The Defiant Ones, was pressured by Doug Morris to either give Dr Dre time to control his music and artists or drop him from his label.

Jimmy Iovine offered to sign hip hop entrepreneur Master P and his imprint, No Limit Records, but he rejected the offer.

Jimmy Iovine allegedly threatened him and his management team that if they would not consider the Interscope deal, they would never "find another deal in the industry nor in this town".

In March 1998, Jimmy Iovine invited Dr Dre to his house to listen to the Slim Shady EP, released in 1997 by an underground rapper, who was participating a tournament of rap battles at the time, by the name of Eminem.

In February 2001, Ted Field parted ways with IGA, leading Jimmy Iovine to take full control of the labels.

In June 2002 of the latter year, Jimmy Iovine was able to manage to negotiate Eminem and Dr Dre's joint venture agreement involving then-upcoming hip hop artist and fellow New Yorker 50 Cent.

Jimmy Iovine discovered Lady Gaga in 2007 who was sent to work with singer-songwriter Akon, who in exchange for his mentorship of Gaga, asked Jimmy Iovine to sign her to Vincent Herbert's Streamline Records and Interscope.

The final artist Iovine signed to his label was J Cole.

On May 28,2014, Jimmy Iovine effectively vacated his CEO and chairman positions, while departing from Interscope.

In 2006, Jimmy Iovine worked with Dr Dre to create Beats Electronics.

Jimmy Iovine had captured 20 percent market share of the headphones industry by 2012.

In January 2013, Jimmy Iovine announced the expansion of Beats into the online digital music world with Daisy, a new service slated to launch in late 2013.

Jimmy Iovine was hired to assume an undisclosed position at Apple where he helped in the creation of Apple Music, which was launched in the summer of 2015 as replacement for Beats Music.

Jimmy Iovine was the creative consultant for Apple Music until August 2018.

Jimmy Iovine produced the 2009 documentary More than a Game, which centered on the life and career of basketball athlete LeBron James; his label Interscope released a soundtrack for the documentary.

In 2005, Jimmy Iovine made a guest appearance as himself on "Don't Make Me Over", an episode for the fourth season of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.

From 2011 to 2013, Jimmy Iovine was a mentor on Fox's American Idol.

Jimmy Iovine departed from the show in mid-2013; he was replaced by Randy Jackson.

On May 17,2013, Jimmy Iovine received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Southern California and gave the 2013 USC commencement address.

In 2022, Jimmy Iovine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category.

New York rock radio DJ Carol Miller and Jimmy Iovine had a two-year relationship in the late 1970s.

Jimmy Iovine was married to writer, lawyer, and model Vicki Jimmy Iovine since 1985 before divorcing in 2006.