NASHVILLE, TENN. – Big Loud Records proudly promotes Stacy Blythe to EVP, Promotion, effective immediately. Blythe joins recently announced EVP / GM Patch Culbertson with the upgraded title, elevating and empowering a new class of Big Loud leaders who report directly to partners Seth England, Joey Moi, and Craig Wiseman.
“Stacy is a day-one believer in Big Loud,” England shares. “She is not only a radio expert, but a relationship builder and an investor in people, as well as a trailblazer within the industry at large that helped us build this company from the ground up. Stacy is integral to the success of our organization, and on behalf of all of the partners, we are honored to continue growing with her.”
“From day one of this incredible Big Loud journey, I’ve been privileged to grow alongside this remarkable team,” Blythe says. “I cannot thank Seth, Joey, Craig, and (Big Loud COO) Austen (Adams) enough for continuing to challenge me and believe in our radio team. I feel profoundly grateful for the opportunity to share in this team’s victories. Thank you to our radio partners and friends who continue to champion our second-to-none roster.”
“Stacy has been the heart of our radio radicals since inception,” Wiseman adds. “She walked in the door with the passion and drive and excellence of an executive VP. It’s about damn time we made it official!”
Originally joining Big Loud in 2015, Blythe has led her promotion team to 24 No. 1 singles at country radio in just under nine years, from the label’s first-ever single ship – Chris Lane‘s Platinum-certified “Fix” – to their most recent No.1 – Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s history-making all-genre No. 1 smash “I Had Some Help.” Blythe is a 2022 and 2024 Billboard Women in Music executive, one of their 40 Under 40 class members (2021), a Billboard Country and Indie Power Player, a member of the 2023 class of Leadership Music, and the 2021 + 2023 CRS / Country Aircheck award winner for SVP / VP National Promotion of the Year. Her past career stops include time in promotion departments across Big Machine Label Group (Republic Nashville), Broken Bow Records (Stoney Creek), 1720 Entertainment, and Category 5. Blythe is a proud native of Pittsburgh, Penn., and a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University.
ABOUT BIG LOUD RECORDS
Big Loud Records’ head-turning success story began in 2015. Counting over 45 billion global audio streams, 24 No. 1 U.S. airplay and 34 No. 1 Canadian airplay hits and over 100 RIAA certified titles, the Big Loud Records roster is home to genre standouts Ashley Cooke, Charles Wesley Godwin, Dallas Smith, Dylan Gossett, ERNEST, Griffen Palmer, Hailey Whitters, HARDY, HIXTAPE, Jake Worthington, Kashus Culpepper, Larry Fleet, Lauren Alaina, Lauren Watkins, Lily Rose, MacKenzie Porter, Maggie Rose, Morgan Wallen, Shawn Austin, Stephen Wilson Jr., and Zandi Holup.
Records was honored as the No. 1 Billboard Hot Country Songs label in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the 2022 and 2023 MusicRow Label Group of the Year and was named Platinum Label at the 2021 and 2023 CRS / Country Aircheck Awards. Adding accolades, the Big Loud executive team has earned recognition across the industry for its boundary-pushing, record-setting work, named to elite classes like Billboard 40 Under 40 (SVP / GM Patch Culbertson (’22), SVP of Radio Promotion Stacy Blythe (’21), CEO / Partner Seth England (’14)), Leadership Music (COO Austen Adams (’19), Blythe (’23)), Variety Hitmakers (England and partner / producer / President of A&R, Joey Moi (’22 + ’23)) and more. Key members of the Big Loud executive team – partners England, Moi, and Craig Wiseman, as well as Adams, Blythe and SVP of Marketing Candice Watkins – have been honored as Billboard Indie Power Players and Billboard Country Power Players. CEO / partner England was named the inaugural peer-voted Country Power Players’ Choice Award recipient, an industry-wide nod honoring the executive that voters believe made the most impact across the country music business over the past year. Learn more about Big Loud Records here, and connect with the label on social media here.
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