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Capitol Records Nashville
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	Capitol Nashville (1950) EMI Nashville (2010)
Founder	Johnny Mercer Buddy DeSylva
Distributor(s)	Universal Music Group Nashville
Genre	Country comedy
Country of origin	United States
Location	Nashville, Tennessee
Official website	capitolrecordsnashville.com

Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States-based record label located in Nashville, Tennessee operating as part of the Universal Music Group Nashville. From 1991 to 1995, Capitol Nashville was known as Liberty Records. While under the Liberty name, the label operated short-lived sister label Patriot Records from 1994 to 1995. In 1999, EMI launched Virgin Records Nashville but by 2001, Capitol absorbed the short-lived label. In 2010, the label launched sister label EMI Nashville. On March 23, 2011, Alan Jackson signed with Capitol's EMI Nashville division in conjunction with his own ACR Records label.

Capitol Nashville was also home to several successful comedy artists.

Artists on Capitol Nashville

• Dierks Bentley
• Luke Bryan
• Mickey Guyton
• Caylee Hammack
• Hot Country Knights
• Little Big Town
• Anne Murray
• Juice Newton
• Jon Pardi
• Kenny Rogers
• Darius Rucker
• Hootie & the Blowfish^[1]
• Tanya Tucker
• Carrie Underwood
• Keith Urban

Artists on EMI Records Nashville

• Brothers Osborne
• Eric Church
• Alan Jackson
• Jon Langston
• Kylie Morgan
• Brad Paisley

Former artists

See also

• Capitol Music Group
• Capitol Records
• List of Capitol Records artists
• EMI
• Virgin Records
• List of record labels

References

External links

• Official website