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    • Aug 5, 2004
    Sony and BMG announce that their corporate merger is complete, establishing the new firm Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Among the affected labels: Columbia, Epic, RCA, BNA, Arista and Monument
    Nov 1, 2004
    Epic announces it's signed Jon Randall to a recording contract
    May 11, 2005
    Marty Stuart announces he's formed his own label, Superlatone Records
    Jun 3, 2005
    Capitol announces Garth Brooks has ended his recording arrangement with the label
    Jul 6, 2005
    In the wake of the company's merger with BMG, the Sony Music Group begins moving into the RCA building at 1400 18th Avenue South in Nashville. Sony's Columbia and Epic labels leave an office that had been the site of Music Row's first studio
    Sep 1, 2005
    Toby Keith opens his own label, Show Dog Nashville, partnering with record executive Scott Borchetta, who simultaneously launches Big Machine. Keith's first signing is frequent co-writer Scotty Emerick
    Oct 18, 2005
    Koch Records folds its Nashville division, six years after formation as Audium Records. Artists cut loose include David Lee Murphy, Daryle Singletary, Robert Earl Keen, Dean Miller and comedian Cledus T. Judd
    Oct 18, 2005
    Record producer Matt Serletic resigns as the head of Virgin Records' pop label. Known for his work with Aerosmith, matchbox twenty and Santana, he also produced "Mendocino County Line" for Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack
    Nov 22, 2005
    Warner Bros. agrees to pay $5 million to settle a payola investigation being conducted by the state of New York. In the process, the company acknowledges some of its employees engaged in illegal activity to gain airplay
    Jan 1, 2006
    Tammy Genovese becomes the chief operating officer of the Country Music Association, supplanting former executive director Ed Benson



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