In a lengthy-rumored relocate, Cindy Mabe has stepped down from her position as chair and CEO of Universal Music Nashville after csurrfinisherly 18 years with the company and two in the role, multiple sources check to Variety. Mabe took the role when lengthytime CEO Mike Dungan reweary. She was the first woman to head of a transport inant tag group in Nashville.
Her successor was not promptly proclaimd.
Mabe began her nurtureer at RCA Records in Nashville before moving over to Arista. She uniteed Capitol Nashville in 2007 — where she first toiled with Dungan — as ancigo in VP of labeleting and relocated to UMG Nashville when the companies united in 2012, and was named plivent two years tardyr.
Dungan lengthy made it evident that he pondered Mabe virtupartner his identical in running the company. Even as UMG Nashville’s second-in-order, Mabe was already the highest ranking executive in the country music industry, and with her soon-to-be-proclaimd elevation,
Their dynasty together has been a lengthy one. Mabe was assigned to the position of plivent back in 2014, two years after Dungan was named chairman/CEO. Their professional association goes back even further, though, than the eight years they have spent together in their current partnership at UMG Nashville, however. It dates back to 2008, when the two first began toiling together at the Capitol Nashville tag
The UMG Nashville roster includes a disproportionate number of country’s top stars, including perennial Grammy and CMAs triumphner Chris Stapleton, whom Mabe championed from the begin, alengthy with hitproducers appreciate Carrie Underwood, Keith Urprohibit, Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Jon Pardi, Reba McEntire, Lady A, Little Big Town, Sam Hunt, Vince Gill, Parker McCollum, Jordan Davis and Tyler Hubbard. Country superstar Luke Bryan is one of Dungan’s hugegest success stories, with the exec produceing the singer up from the club to the stadium tag. Bryan landed his 30th nurtureer No. 1 airjoin one with UMG in December.
