{"id":153095,"date":"2025-04-24T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/24\/universal-music-group-nashville-rebrands-as-mca-under-new-leadership\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:11:40","slug":"universal-music-group-nashville-rebrands-as-mca-under-new-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/24\/universal-music-group-nashville-rebrands-as-mca-under-new-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group Nashville Rebrands as MCA Under New\u00a0Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tUniversal Music Group Nashville is undergoing a rebranding under CEO Mike Harris<\/strong> and chief creative officer Dave Cobb<\/strong>. The company will now be known as Music Corporation of America (MCA).<\/p>\n

\n\tHarris and Cobb<\/a> came aboard in early February following the departure of UMGN CEO\/chairman<\/a> Cindy Mabe<\/strong> in January. For Harris, it marked a return as he had served as COO\/executive vp at UMGN until his departure last September.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith the popularity of country music and the tremendous impact that it continues to make in popular culture, we recognize the importance of Nashville and the impact it has always made in America,\u201d Harris said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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\n\tCobb adds \u201cI want to let the art lead, embrace community, and approach the business with intention. We show up, work hard, and put artists, songwriters, community, and fans first. We want to get this right for them. That\u2019s what this is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tA number of staffing changes have also been made that reflect the changes. Katie McCartney<\/strong>, former GM of the recently shuttered Sony joint venture Monument Records,\u00a0has been named evp\/GM and\u00a0Tom LaScola<\/strong> is head of artist and audience strategy, through an expanded \u00a0alliance with his company,\u00a0The Trenches. The digital promotion and marketing firm formed a partnership with Republic Collective last October.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder Cobb, the company has also formed a creative strategic alliance with award-winning songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon<\/strong>\u00a0as the newly minted\u00a0Song Buddy, a position that highlights the company\u2019s commitment to the vital role songwriters play in the Nashville\u2019s creative ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new MCA will continue to operate its frontline labels, Mercury Nashville,\u00a0EMI Nashville,\u00a0Capitol Nashville\u00a0and\u00a0MCA Nashville\u00a0along with the newly launched\u00a0Lucille Records, founded by Cobb.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLucille Records will be lead by Cobb and Austin Jenkins<\/strong>, senior vp of A&R for MCA. Its diverse inaugural roster includes\u00a0Lamont Landers,\u00a0Landon Smith,\u00a0Isabel Dumaa and\u00a0Sons of Habit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe incredible staff of these labels will operate with a sense of independence and autonomy, but with a pursuit of excellence and healthy competition as a shared agenda,\u201d Harris said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the full resources provided by the Nashville headquarters, MCA artists also leverage the support of the\u00a0REPUBLIC Collective\u00a0in the U.S. and\u00a0UMG\u00a0globally.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of Harris\u2019s and Cobb\u2019s appointments, UMG chairman Sir Lucian Grange signaled a new era: \u201cWe see an incredible opportunity to expand our presence in Nashville and build upon our industry leading track record,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe worldwide success of our country artists demonstrate that the genre truly has no boundaries and I\u2019m excited for what lies ahead creatively and commercially.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMCA has a storied start in 1924 in Chicago as a booking agency before becoming a label. Through acquisitions and mergers, MCA and Universal became part of the same company. In 2003, MCA as a pop label was absorbed into Geffen as part of Interscope Geffen A&M and had not existed as a label except for as the MCA Nashville imprint under UMG Nashville. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe newly rebranded MCA\u2019s roster includes Alan Jackson, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker,\u00a0Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, George Strait, Jon Pardi, Jordan Davis, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Maddie & Tae, Parker McCollum, Priscilla Block, Reba McEntire, Sam Hunt, Tyler Hubbard\u00a0and\u00a0Vince Gill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Universal Music Group Nashville is undergoing a rebranding under CEO Mike Harris and chief creative officer Dave Cobb. The company will now be known as Music Corporation of America (MCA). Harris and Cobb came aboard in early February following the departure of UMGN CEO\/chairman Cindy Mabe in January. For Harris, it marked a return as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}