Miranda Lambert introduced Wednesday that she is leaving Sony Music Nashville, the corporate she’s been with for the reason that starting of her nearly two-decade recording profession. She didn’t say the place she is perhaps touchdown after her departure — solely that she “can’t wait” to see what comes subsequent.
“Since I used to be 19 years outdated, Sony has been my house in Nashville,” Lambert stated in a social post. “During the last 20 years collectively we’ve launched albums that allowed me to share my story with the world, and we’ve reached heights I’d by no means even dreamed have been attainable.
“I’m so grateful for our time collectively and every part they made attainable for me,” Lambert cointinued, “but I wouldn’t be true to myself if I wasn’t consistently searching for the following problem and a brand new approach to stretch my creativity. With that in thoughts, I’ve determined to say goodbye to my Sony household. I can’t wait to see what the following journey holds.”
Lambert posting that she wanted a brand new house wherein to stretch her creativity could come as a shock to some business observers and followers, since Sony Nashville has been identified in years previous for permitting the singer-songwriter her freedom, as one of many greatest and most celebrated stars in nation music.
That was most evident in her 2016 double-album, “The Weight of These Wings,” which received her a number of the greatest opinions of her profession, in addition to a CMA nomination and ACMs album of the 12 months win, regardless of not producing the hit singles to which she had turn into accustomed. She adopted that with a extra business album, 2019’s “Wildcard,” which had her touchdown a No. 1 on the nation airplay chart with “Bluebird.” Lambert’s two initiatives for Sony Nashville since then, 2021’s “The Marfa Tapes” (a joint effort with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall) and 2022’s “Palomino,” swung the pendulum again towards extra conceptually bold fare, once more to rave opinions. Her two newest singles, “Settling Down” and “If I Was a Cowboy,” have been modest hits, peaking at Nos. 6 and 12, respectively.
Lambert’s major-label debut album, “Kerosene,” got here out in 2005 and instantly established her as certainly one of nation’s rising stars. Her second and third albums, “Loopy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Revolution,” each went double-platinum and introduced her to new heights, with the latter album’s “The Home That Constructed Me” in 2010 changing into her first No. 1 airplay single. Altogether she has had 4 Billboard No. 1s and 12 songs that reached the highest 10.
