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Common Music Group Nashville has been rebranded as Music Company of America (MCA).
UMG mentioned on Thursday (April 24) that the brand new identify “speaks to creativity, creativeness, an honored legacy and the way forward for music’.
Dave Cobb, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning producer, who UMG famous on the time, has “had important affect on the sound of Music Metropolis”, was appointed Chief Artistic Officer.
Most lately, based on UMG, beneath the management of Harris and Cobb, the newly minted MCA enters “a brand new period with a daring imaginative and prescient for Nashville’s future”.
Alongside the information of the rebrand, MCA has strengthened its government group, appointing Katie McCartney as EVP/Common Supervisor.
Tom LaScola will function Head of Artist and Viewers Technique by means of an “enhanced alliance” together with his firm, THE TRENCHES, which inked a partnership with UMG’s Republic Collective in October.
As one in all Cobb’s first key initiatives, the corporate has additionally introduced a brand new inventive strategic alliance devoted to supporting and growing homegrown Nashville songwriting expertise, naming Jessie Jo Dillon because the newly minted Tune Buddy.
MCA mentioned that this “bespoke place displays a deep dedication to the important function songwriters play within the native inventive ecosystem”.
UMG says that the MCA portfolio will “proceed to function and help” frontline labels Mercury Nashville, EMI Nashville, Capitol Nashville and MCA Nashville together with the newly launched Lucille Data.
Lucille Data was based by Cobb and spearheaded by Austin Jenkins, SVP of A&R for MCA and Head of Lucille. Its inaugural roster contains Lamont Landers, Landon Smith, Isabel Dumas, and Sons of Behavior.
Music Company of America’s wider roster contains artists comparable to Alan Jackson, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, George Strait, Jon Pardi, Jordan Davis, Keith City, Little Huge City, Luke Bryan, Maddie & Tae, Parker McCollum, Priscilla Block, Reba McEntire, Sam Hunt, Tyler Hubbard and Vince Gill.
Along with the “full suite of inventive and industrial sources” based mostly within the Music Company of America Nashville HQ, UMG mentioned that MCA artists can even be capable of leverage the help of the Republic Collective within the US and UMG globally.
“With the recognition of nation music and the super impression that it continues to make in widespread tradition, we acknowledge the significance of Nashville and the impression it has all the time made in America.”
Mike Harris
Mike Harris mentioned: “With the recognition of nation music and the super impression that it continues to make in widespread tradition, we acknowledge the significance of Nashville and the impression it has all the time made in America.
“The unbelievable employees of those labels will function with a way of independence and autonomy, however with a pursuit of excellence and wholesome competitors as a shared agenda.”
“I wish to let the artwork lead, embrace neighborhood, and strategy the enterprise with intention.”
Dave Cobb
Dave Cobb added: “I wish to let the artwork lead, embrace neighborhood, and strategy the enterprise with intention.
“We present up, work laborious, and put artists, songwriters, neighborhood, and followers first. We wish to get this proper for them. That’s what that is all about.”
Harris and Cobb’s appointments in February adopted the departure of Cindy Mabe, Chair and CEO of UMG Nashville since April 2023.
Different current C-suite adjustments on the main document corporations in Nashville included Taylor Lindsey’s current promotion to Chairman and CEO at Sony Music Nashville.
Lindsey succeeded RandyGoodman, who, as introduced in September, retired on the finish of 2024 after greater than 35 years within the music trade.
Additionally, in April 2023, John “Espo” Esposito exitedWarner Music Nashville after 14 years as the corporate’s chief. He was succeeded by Ben Kline and Cris Lacy.
In September, Warner Music Group veteran Gregg Nadel, who most lately served as President of Elektra Leisure, was appointed Co-Chair & Co-President of Warner Music Nashville. He’ll work alongside Cris Lacy, who has been co-head of WMN for the previous two years and marks her twentieth anniversary with the corporate subsequent 12 months. Nadel succeeded Ben Kline, who has determined to step down after a decade with the corporate
Additionally in September, Common Music Group Nashville appointed Robert Kilduff as Chief Monetary Officer.Music Enterprise Worldwide
