Common Music Group Nashville is rebranding because the Music Company of America, the corporate introduced Thursday.
The change comes two months after CEO Mike Harris took the reins of the corporate alongside chief artistic officer Dave Cobb after earlier CEO Cindy Mabe exited. In rebranding as MCA, UMG Nashville is taking up the famed namesake its mother or father firm UMG was formally often known as till the ’90s.
Together with the branding change, MCA introduced that Katie McCartney will serve of EVP/Normal Supervisor of the corporate, and Tom LaScola will function Head of Artist and Viewers Technique via an enhanced partnership together with his firm The Trenches. Nashville songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon has been named “track buddy” on the firm, a part of what MCA mentioned was “a brand new artistic strategic alliance devoted to supporting and growing homegrown Nashville songwriting expertise.”
“With the recognition of nation music and the great impression that it continues to make in fashionable tradition, we acknowledge the significance of Nashville and the impression it has at all times made in America,” Harris mentioned in a press release Thursday. “The unimaginable 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.”
MCA’s labels embrace Mercury Nashville, EMI Nashville, Capitol Nashville and MCA Nashville, together with Lucille Information, a brand new label that Cobb based, ran by MCA SVP of A&R Austin Jenkins. MCA’s roster additionally has entry to the Republic Collective and UMG for broader US and Worldwide help. Among the many artists throughout the MCA system are Alan Jackson, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, George Strait, Jon Pardi, Jordan Davis, Keith City amongst many others.
As Cobb mentioned of the information in a press release Thursday: “I wish to let the artwork lead, embrace neighborhood, and method the enterprise with intention. We present up, work exhausting, and put artists, songwriters, neighborhood, and followers first. We wish to get this proper for them. That’s what that is all about.”
