It's Always Sony: As reported via Breaking News, Columbia Dir./Northeast Promotion Lyndsay Church has segued to Arista as Sr. Dir./Promotion & Artist Development while Columbia Dir./Midwest Promotion Lauren Longbine and RCA Dir./Southwest Regional Promotion Mallory Michaels rise to Sr. Dirs./Promotion & Artist Development for their respective imprints. “As our industry continues to evolve, we are very excited to embrace the challenges with a newly designed and redeployed staff,” says Sony Music Nashville EVP/Promotion & Artist Development Steve Hodges in an internal memo obtained by Country Aircheck. Church has been with the company since 2016 (CAT 3/28/16) and was named to her most recent post in 2018, when Longbine joined from BMLG Records (CAT 11/30/18). Longbine shifted to her most recent role in 2019 (CAT 7/1/19). Michaels joined RCA in 2018 (CAT 6/1/18) following time with Warner Music Nashville. Reach Church here, Longbine here and Michaels here. Newly aligned teams are as follows:

Arista
Chris Schuler, VP/Promotion & Artist Development (CAT 4/4)
Lyndsay Church, Sr. Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Ali O’Connell, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Lisa Owen, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Amy Menz, Specialist/Promotion & Artist Development

Columbia
Lauren “LT” Thomas, VP/Promotion & Artist Development to succeed outgoing SVP/Promotion Shane Allen (CAT 4/25)
Lauren Longbine, Sr. Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Mark Gray, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Paige Elliott, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Christy Garbinski, Specialist/Promotion & Artist Development

RCA
Dennis Reese, SVP/Promotion & Artist Development
Mallory Michaels, Sr. Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Dan Nelson, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Larry Santiago, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Nicole Walden, Specialist/Promotion & Artist Development

SMN National Support
Steve Hodges, EVP/Promotion & Artist Development
Bo Martinovich, Dir./Promotion & Artist Development
Paul Grosser, Mgr./Promotion & Artist Development
Houston Gaither, Mgr./Promotion & Artist Development