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The Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Nashville, Randy Goodman, will retire at the end of 2024 after more than 35 years in the music industry.
Goodman was appointed to his current role in 2025, during which time he has also overseen Sony Music’s Christian music enterprise, Provident Entertainment. Sony Music Group Chairman Rob Stringer commented on the announcement saying, “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.”
While working at Sony Music, Goodman and his team helped shape the careers of stars including Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Maren Morris, Megan Moroney, and Nate Smith. Goodman and his team also helped bring key breaking artists into the Sony fold including Mitchell Tenpenny, Kameron Marlowe, Corey Kent, and Morgan Wade among others.
“Thank you to Rob for his leadership and support throughout my entire time at the company,” Randy Goodman comments. “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.”
Randy Goodman is a Nashville native, with an extensive career that includes 16 years at the beginning with RCA Records. Goodman served for five years as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing for RCA in New York prior to returning to Nashville. He also served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the RCA Label Group in Nashville, which would later become Sony Music Nashville.
While at RCA, Goodman worked with superstars including Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, Alabama, Kenny Chesney, Dave Matthews Band, Wu-Tang Clan, Dolly Parton, Clint Black, Keith Whitley, and The Judds.
In 1997, Goodman opened Lyric Street Records for the Walt Disney Co., overseeing the label as President through 2010. He worked with artists who enjoyed multi-Platinum success including Rascal Flatts, Aaron Tippin, and Josh Gracin.
