Bartels Expected to Get Top Post at Island

Universal Music Group is expected to name Steve Bartels president of its Island Records unit, sources said. Bartels, formerly head of promotion at rival Bertelsmann’s Arista Records label, will report to his onetime boss, Antonio “L.A.” Reid.

The move comes amid a rapid-fire shuffle in the top jobs at the music labels. Reid took the reins at Universal’s Island Def Jam complex just weeks after being fired from his job as chief executive of Arista. Bartels will be filling a spot vacated by Julie Greenwald, who left the company to follow her longtime boss, Lyor Cohen, to Warner Music Group.

-- Jeff Leeds