But while it's been a billboard year for established acts, breaking acts found it harder.
"Things are really healthy and we'll be breaking acts again really soon," he says.
He was taken up by music collective Communion, its weekly gigs previously a platform for breaking acts such as Noah and the Whale and Anna Calvi, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons.
Now, as newly appointed co-president of Polydor, he acknowledges that although there has not been "the same proliferation of breaking acts in the last six months", the industry shouldn't be pessimistic.
The record industry has so many of its own problems in terms of sales of music and how to make money on it, so they're not really breaking acts at the rate we're used to.
In New York, too, clubs have been partially responsible for breaking acts like French Montana and Bobby Shmurda.
The two big challenges to radio's dominance in breaking acts over the past decade are the internet (obvs) and telly.
This fellowship brought many musicians together and formed groups such as Tourniquet, Deliverance, Vengeance and Mortal that would soon become ground breaking acts in Christian music culture.
Not surprisingly, MTV became the dominate force for breaking acts and transforming music into music videos, expanding music's popularity by creating even more super stars.
The Stanton Warriors, a breaks act and mixers of the Gorillaz, have just put out an album.
The station had helped break acts such as Jake Bugg, Royal Blood and Florence and the Machine.
