Tenille Townes Parts Ways With Sony Music Nashville

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Tenille Townes. Photo: Robert Chavers

Award-winning singer-songwriter Tenille Townes has parted ways with Sony Music Nashville. She revealed the news in a TikTok posted on this week.

“I have decided to fly free from my record label,” Townes said in the video. “It’s a big shift for me. We’ve been working together for over seven years now.

“I want the freedom to write and record whatever music I want to make, share it with you guys and put it out into the world,” she shared. “Making this decision to fly free means that I can do that now.”

@tenilletownes Entering my freedom era… will you guys come with me? #independentartist ♬ original sound – Tenille Townes

Townes, a 17-time Canadian Country Music Award Winner, began singing at age five in her rural Canadian hometown, Grande Prairie, Alberta, and penned her first song by age 14. She moved to Nashville in 2013 to pursue her music career and signed with Sony Music Nashville in 2018.

She released her debut album with the label, The Lemonade Stand, in 2020. It was named Country Album of the Year at the 50th JUNO Awards, and produced two No. 1 hits in Canada with “Jersey on The Wall (I’m Just Asking)” and “Somebody’s Daughter,” which is certified Gold in the U.S. She followed that project up with her 2023 album Masquerades.

Townes was named New Female Artist of the Year at the 2019 ACM Awards, and she took home another trophy that year for Music Event of the Year with a collaboration with Miranda Lambert and other female artists, “Fooled Around And Fell In Love.”

Looking ahead, Townes will release music as an independent artist. She will head out on her headlining “The Thing That Brought Me Here Tour” in October and November.

Townes is managed by Shopkeeper Management, booked by WME and published by Big Yellow Dog Music.

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