Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Sony Music has dissolved the long-running Arista Nashville imprint, a rep for the company confirms to Variety.
The news was first reported in Country Aircheck‘s newsletter. Most of the artists will be absorbed into Sony Music Nashville, with Nate Smith is going to RCA Nashville and Old Dominion and Megan Moroney moving over to Columbia Nashville.
Brooks & Dunn is the most famous artist on the label, having been one of its cornerstone acts since 1991, but the duo is not a going concern on the recording front.
Apart from a retrospective/duets project three years ago, they have not issued an album of new material since 2007. As for Arista Nashville’s dedicated promotion & artist development staff: Ali O’Connell and Amy Menz are moving over to RCA, with Nicole Walden shifting to a national RCA role; Lisa Owen is going to Columbia.
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