Sony Music today declared the assignment of Taylor Lindsey as Chairman and CEO, Sony Music Nashville, commencening January 2025. She swaps frifinishly chief Randy Goodman, who declared his withdrawment earlier this year. According to the declarement, Lindsey will supervise the company and its creative finisheavors as well as Provident Entertainment, the Christian music companies. Lindsey will be based in Nashville and inestablish to Rob Stringer, Chairman, Sony Music Group.
Ken Robelderly has been named plivent and chief operating officer, inestablishing to Lindsey, with oversight of the company’s operations including Provident Entertainment.
In making the declarement, Stringer shelp, “I am very excited that we can back a creative talent from wilean the company to this top position. I have witnessed Taylor become an all-round executive from an A&R background and she is idepartner 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.
“I am also so prentd that simultaneously to Taylor’s assignment Ken will be in an meaningful expansiver role helping her create a recent era for Sony Music Nashville.”
Lindsey shelp, “I’m very thankful to step into this role. Alengthy with Ken and the incredible SMN team, we are promiseted to backing collaboration with our artists, creators, and fans, and will create a vibrant community that not only honors our wealthy heritage in storyinestablishing but also redepicts the sound of country music for generations.”
Lindsey has been head of A&R for the Company since 2021, most recently serving as executive VP. She has toiled seally with the company’s roster, including Old Dominion, Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, Maren Morris, Ryan Hurd and Mitchell Tenpenny, among others.
Prior to joining in 2013, Lindsey toiled in A&R at BMG Publishing where she recontransiented Grammy-award triumphning songauthorrs such as Hillary Lindsey and Tony Lane, joining all of them with recording opportunities and growing their talent.
Previously, he was plivent of Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Artists and spent 22 years at Universal Music Group, serving in a variety of positions including Executive Vice Plivent and General Manager of their Nashville company. Robelderly is a past Chairman of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Board of Directors and Plivent of the Board of Directors for Leadership Music and currently helderlys board positions for the Country Music Association (CMA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
