{"id":220475,"date":"2026-01-07T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/dean-lewis-parts-ways-with-universal-music\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:10:27","slug":"dean-lewis-parts-ways-with-universal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/dean-lewis-parts-ways-with-universal-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Lewis Parts Ways With Universal\u00a0Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tUniversal Music and Dean Lewis<\/a> have cut ties following a wave of misconduct allegations against the Australian singer and songwriter.<\/p>\n

\n\tA spokesperson for the major music company shared with Billboard<\/em> a brief statement that reads, \u201cWe can confirm that Dean Lewis is no longer signed to Universal Music Australia or any Universal Music Group label.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe split comes after multiple women turned to TikTok in the back-end of 2025, to address Lewis\u2019 alleged inappropriate behavior with fans online. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cBe Alright\u201d singer responded by yanking his nominations for the ARIA and TikTok Awards, and by sharing a seven-slide apology on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cIn the past few days,\u201d he wrote in the post, published Oct. 30, \u201csocial media has made public a decade-plus of private conversations with a number of women, all of adult age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cfrom the bottom of my heart, I want to sincerely apologise to those I\u2019ve hurt. This is not only an apology to the women who have spoken up, but those who haven\u2019t and felt hurt by my words or behavior. I also need to apologise to my family and fans who I\u2019ve gravely disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 38-year-old Sydneysider also assured he would make \u201ca lot of changes,\u201d and accept a \u201cwhole new set of rules\u201d in how he engages with fans or respond to messages.<\/p>\n

\n\tLewis boasted a decade on the Universal Music roster, having signed with Island Records and Universal Music Australia in April 2016. Since then, Lewis has accumulated 15 billion streams and shifted 7 million albums and EPs worldwide, and has been one of Australia\u2019s brightest international breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn international hit landed with \u201cBe Alright,\u201d which peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and logged 29 weeks on the tally in 2018 and 2019. The single just missed out on the top 10 in the U.K., where it peaked at No. 11. \u201cBe Alright\u201d gave Lewis his first and only ARIA No. 1. Lewis followed it up with a second top 40 hit, 2022\u2019s \u201cHow Do I Say Goodbye,\u201d which peaked at No. 23 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis debut 2019 album A Place We Knew <\/em>cracked the top 40 in the United States and the United Kingdom and went to No. 1 in his homeland. Universal Music issued his second album The Hardest Love<\/em>, peaking at No. 4 in Australia in 2022, and in 2024 released The Epilogue<\/em>, topping out at No. 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Universal Music and Dean Lewis have cut ties following a wave of misconduct allegations against the Australian singer and songwriter. A spokesperson for the major music company shared with Billboard a brief statement that reads, \u201cWe can confirm that Dean Lewis is no longer signed to Universal Music Australia or any Universal Music Group label.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}