SMN Chair/CEO Randy Goodman Sets Retirement
• Sony Music announced that Randy Goodman, Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Nashville will retire at the end of 2024 after more than 35 years in the music industry.
Goodman was appointed to his current role in 2015, during which time he also has overseen Sony Music’s Christian music enterprise, Provident Entertainment.
In making the announcement, Sony Music Group Chairman, Rob Stringer, said, “Thank you to Randy for leading our Nashville company through the last nine years and providing some of the biggest new superstars in the genre of country music. These artists are part of his legacy, and he should be proud of that. We look forward to building on the strong base he and his team have set up for the future.”
A Nashville native, Goodman’s extensive career includes 16 years with RCA Records, five years as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing in New York prior to returning to Nashville. He also served as EVP/GM of the RCA Label Group in Nashville, which would later become Sony Music Nashville. In 1997, Goodman opened Lyric Street Records for the Walt Disney Co., overseeing the label as President through 2010.
At Sony Music, Goodman and Team have shepherded the careers of stars like Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Maren Morris, Megan Moroney and Nate Smith, as well as key breaking artists including Mitchell Tenpenny, Kameron Marlowe, Corey Kent and Morgan Wade, among others.
Goodman commented, “Thank you to Rob for his leadership and support throughout my entire time at the Company. The Sony Music Nashville and Provident Entertainment teams are some of the finest executives I’ve had the privilege of working with over my many years in this business. There are too many people to thank specifically who helped and supported me along the way: my family foremost, for their support and grace in letting me stay with it all these years. Looking back over my career’s arc, I am humbled and honored to have had the privilege to work with the artist legends I have; and as importantly, the teams I’ve been privileged to work with and lead. As excited as I am for what’s next no doubt it is bittersweet. It’s all been a gift.” [Photo credit: Matt Berinato]
