Gone Country Music Made Me Do It: Team BMLG hosts a Gone Country-themed CMA Awards After Party. Pictured (l-r) are Erik Powell, Kris Lamb, Carly Pearce, Scott Borchetta, Riley Green, Jimmy Harnen and Allison Jones.
Road Rager: 1021 Entertainment/RCA’s Restless Road at CAA's 2024 CMA Awards Watch Party. Pictured (l-r) are Freeland Collective's Heather Freeland, RR's Colton Pack, Garrett Nichols and Zach Beeken, CAA's Sam Forbert, Neon Coast's Joey Russ and CAA's Nigel Hassler.
My Kinda Pre-Party: Team BBRMG at last night's (11/19) Pre-CMA Awards Party. Pictured (l-r) are Peter Strickland, Thomas Coesfeld, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Dustin Lynch, Jon Loba, JoJamie Hahr and Katie Kerkhover.
Country (Heat) Girl: Capitol's Luke Bryan with Country Heat Weekly's Kelly Sutton (l) and Amber Anderson at the CMA Awards remotes.
Ol' Remote: Wheelhouse's Blake Shelton with KYGO/Denver's Tracy Dixon and Fizz (top) and Westwood One's Jackie Stevens, Elaina Smith and Alexes Aiken
Hump Day: Silverfish Media's Jessica "Carsen" Humphreville with MCA's Parker McCollum (l) and EMI Nashville's Eric Church at the CMA remotes.
Hunter Gatherer: 19 Recordings/Wheelhouse's HunterGirl (c) with WUSN/Chicago's Austin Huff and Melissa McGurren at the Music Row Live remotes.
Bigger 615 Houses: Dan + Shay's Shay Mooney (l) and Dan Smyers with The Big 615's Monta Vaden at the Music Row Live CMA Awards remotes.
Havin' A Records Year: WUSJ/Jackson, MS' Hannah Lane with Records Nashville's Matt Stell (top) and George Birge at Sharla McCoy's Music Row Live remotes during CMA week.
I Love This Star: Nashville Harbor's Riley Green and Columbia's Megan Moroney play Audacy's Stars and Strings in Hollywood, FL. Pictured (top, l-r) are the label's Jimmy Harnen, Green and Audacy's Tim Roberts; (bottom, l-r) Audacy's Chad Fitzsimmons, the label's Steve Hodges, Audacy's Jeff Sottolano, Moroney, Roberts, the label's Lauren Thomas and Audacy's Justin Cole and Michael Martin.
Happy Hour Anywhere: BBRMG's Blake Shelton at SiriusXM The Highway's Music Row Happy Hour with his label team. Pictured (l-r) are Scotty O'Brien, Regan Donato, Brittany Pittman, JoJamie Hahr, Shelton, Lisa Mastrianni and Ken Tucker. (inset) Shelton with SXM's Buzz Brainard.
Play Something Country Heat: Brooks & Dunn's Kix Brooks (l) and Ronnie Dunn with Country Heat Weekly's Kelly Sutton, Joyce Rizer and Amber Anderson (l-r).
Sony Music Nashville EVP/A&R Taylor Lindsey will be elevated to Chairman/CEO in January. Lindsey succeeds Chairman/CEO Randy Goodman, who is retiring at the end of the year (CAT 9/18). She will oversee the company and its creative endeavors, as well as Provident Entertainment. Additionally, COO/EVP Ken Robold has been named President/COO, reporting to Lindsey with oversight of the company’s operations. "I have witnessed Taylor become an all-round executive from an A&R background and she is ideally suited to plot the future for our Nashville team in a chapter where country music is clearly evolving and thriving as a key musical genre," says Chairman Rob Stringer, to whom Lindsey reports.
Lindsey has been with Sony since 2013, was elevated to her most recent role in 2019 and became head of the A&R department in 2021 (CAT 3/24/21). Robold joined Sony in 2015 (CAT 7/8/15), and previously was President of Zac Brown's Southern Ground Artists for more than a year. Before that, he was EVP/GM of UMG/Nashville until its 2012 acquistion of Capitol and EMI Nashville. Reach Lindsey here and Robold here.
