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EMI Nashville chief could switch to Universal
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 24 February 2012
While competition regulators consider Universal’s plans to buy the EMI record companies, the latter’s Nashville chief is circumventing all that regulatory shenanigans by leaping straight over to the former to head up country music operations there, or at least so says Billboard.
Mike Dungan is currently boss of Capitol Records Nashville, which has been doing rather well in recent years, not least thanks to the output of two key artists, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum. But, according to Billboard, various sources have said the exec will soon move to Universal Nashville to become President there, taking over from Luke Lewis, who will then move to a new position within the mega-major.
Neither EMI nor Universal has so far commented on the move. Of course if it does happen, and if Universal does then get regulator approval for its EMI deals, Dungan could find himself in charge of both country labels. As previously reported, the regulatory investigation into the Universal/EMI merger could take months, with the European Commission having only just received proposal papers from Universal chiefs, even though the US investigation began last year.
