Martina McBride has been a consistent hitmaker since her second album, 1993’s The Way That I Am. That includes her last four albums that have all reached to Pop top ten and the top two on the Country charts.
That’s why it is surprise that, for the third time since 2009, she is changing labels. On Tuesday morning’s Today Show, McBride said that she had signed with NASH Icon Music, a joint venture between the Big Machine Label Group and Cumulus Media that will not only release new music but will also produce live events. The new label is concentrating on some of Nashville’s most popular artists of the last twenty-five years.
NASH Icon previously signed Reba McEntire as their first artist back in October and, earlier this month, announced that they had signed Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn. The two artists came together on December 15 when Reba was given the NASH Icon Award, presented to her by Brooks, at the first American Country Countdown Awards, which was produced by Cumulus Media.
McBride signed with RCA Nashville in 1992 and released ten studio albums over the course of seventeen years with the label. In 2011, she moved to Republic Nashville where she released Eleven and, in 2014, was with Kobalt Music Service for the R&B covers album Everlasting.
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