Cindy Mabe has exited her function as Common Music Group Nashville’s chair and CEO after practically 18 years with the corporate “to pursue new alternatives,” it was introduced right now.
Mabe, whose exit was first reported by Nation Air Verify, was appointed UMGN chair and CEO in April 2023, leaving the submit lower than two years into the function. The manager was the primary lady to guide a serious Nashville label group, succeeding retired chair and CEO Mike Dungan as UMGN chair and CEO after he stepped down in 2023.
Ascending to the CEO place is Mike Harris, who has served as EVP and COO of UMG Nashville since 2016. Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb can be becoming a member of the corporate as chief artistic officer.
Harris had beforehand spent 15 years at EMI, rising to EVP GM for Caroline, a division of the Capitol Music Group/EMI.
One among Music Metropolis’s largest hitmakers, Cobb has labored on Chris Stapleton’s Traveller, Jason Isbell’s Southeastern and Brandi Carlile’s By The Method I Forgive You, amongst different profitable releases throughout genres past Nation and Americana.
Mike Harris (left); Dave Cobb
Courtesy of UMG
Cobb’s movie credit are additionally spectacular. He’s at the moment engaged on music for Ship Me From Nowhere, the still-filming Bruce Springsteen biopic. He was additionally a key artistic on the films ELVIS, Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Starvation Video games: Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes and 2018’s A Star Is Born, for which he produced Woman Gaga’s “All the time Keep in mind Us This Method.”
Mabe has had a prolonged profession within the Nashville music scene. She started her profession as a promotions coordinator at RCA Nashville, later working in gross sales, artist advertising and marketing and improvement for such acts as Martina McBride and Alabama. She spent eight years at Arista Information Nashville as senior director of promoting and artist improvement, working with Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood and extra. Following a stint at Capitol Information, she joined UMGN in 2012 as SVP of promoting. She was appointed UMGN president in 2014. Throughout her tenure on the label, she helped develop the careers of Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Mickey Guyton, Sam Hunt, Alan Jackson, Parker McCollum, Reba McEntire, Kacey Musgraves, Jon Pardi, Chris Stapleton, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Keith City, Brothers Osborne and Little Massive City.
When Mabe was promoted to CEO and chair in 2023, UMG described her in a launch as “one in every of Music Row’s most revered music executives and distinguished entrepreneurs.”
Of her exit, UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge stated in a press release, “She leaves UMG with our gratitude and respect.”
As for future plans for the Nashville operation, Grainge added, “We see an unbelievable alternative to increase our presence in Nashville and construct upon our business main observe document. The worldwide success of our nation artists reveal that the style actually has no boundaries and I’m excited for what lies forward creatively and commercially.”
