23 And Me: Brown Sellers Brown/Quartz Hill/Stone Country Records' Benny Brown (c) with Michael Jordan and grandson/driver Tyler Reddick at the NASCAR Cup Series.
Cowboy Streams: Records Nashville's George Birge (l) with SXM/CMT's Cody Alan.
Signage: Grand Ole Opry member T. Graham Brown (serving a lewk) commemorates his Kinkead Entertainment signing with manager Cole Johnstone and Kinkead's Bob Kinkead, Sheila Brown, Julie Devereux, Remi Heitzman and Greg Scott (l-r).
Signage: Singer/songwriter Timmy McKeever (c) signs with Arcade Management's Joe Barrick and Alexandra Turpin.
Brentertainment: KUZZ/Bakersfield's Brent Michaels with Tigirlily Gold's Krista Slaubaugh and Kendra Slaubaugh (top) and EMI Nashville's Anne Wilson.
Can You Die From a Broken Smaht: RCA's Nate Smith and Night Train/Broken Bow's John Morgan in Boston. Pictured (l-r) are WBWL's Brandon Clay, WKLB's Dawn Santolucito, WBWL's Jessica Callahan, Smith, Morgan and WBWL's Amanda Jo Parker.
Texiest Man Alive: BBRMG's Blake Shelton (l) invites CMT's Cody Alan to the set of his "Texas" video shoot; interview airs this weekend on Hot 20.
Signage: Songwriter Trent Wayne signs with Warner Chappell Music (WCM) and Cornman Music. Pictured (l-r) are WCM's Ben Vaughn, CM's Brett James and Chris Owen, Wayne, CM's Nate Lowery and WCM's Jessi Vaughn Stevenson and Eric Reid.
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.
