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She made Scott what he is today, BMR IS Taylor.
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Originally posted by Taylor fanboy
Contrary, TAYLOR discovered him.
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Originally posted by CountryFriedChick
Scott is probably the best label head for any major label now. He gives his artists control instead of limiting there careers to generic pop sound or generic country sound. I mean who's to say Taylor would even be around now if she was on a different label? They might have had her sing other people's songs and she would have just faded away. I really like what he's done with The Band Perry and I'm wondering how Tim will react to having creative control again now that he is out of curb records.
Scott has also a successful career before BMR.
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Perhaps best known for signing Taylor Swift and nurturing her superstar career, Scott Borchetta is a music industry veteran who has made significant contributions to country music history over the last two decades. For that reason, he is among 92 new entries in the Encyclopedia of Country Music. As the Encyclopedia notes, Borchetta followed his father, veteran promotion executive Mike Borchetta, into the music business. Working at MCA Nashville in the 1980s and '90s, the younger Borchetta promoted the careers of Vince Gill, Reba, George Strait and others. When California entertainment company DreamWorks opened a Nashville record label, Borchetta took the head promotion job, rising to label general manager. When DreamWorks Nashville merged with the Universal Music Group, Borchetta was named senior vice president of promotion and artist development for the company's country music division, including DreamWorks, MCA and Mercury Records.
In 2005, Borchetta resigned from Universal to launch Big Machine, initially in partnership with singer Toby Keith's new label, Show Dog Records. Within a year, Big Machine and Show Dog split, and Big Machine began finding success with Jack Ingram, Swift and veteran Trisha Yearwood. Borchetta expanded his empire to include the labels the Valory Music Company in 2007 and Republic Records Nashville in 2009, the latter in partnership with New York's Universal Republic Records. His companies' rosters continued to expand, signing Reba in 2009 and Rascal Flatts and McBride in 2010. Under his guidance, the Big Machine Label Group continues to thrive and is one of the industry's most successful record labels.
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Borchetta himself played in rock bands in his native California and in Nashville when he moved to Music City. On a dare he joined a country band in Nashville and had modest success. But his musical tastes were broad, encompassing Ronnie Milsap and Van Halen, the Sex Pistols and Waylon Jennings. He was attracted to what he called "a rebel heart" and a willingness to embrace change.
Borchetta recalled working for Mary Tyler Moore's company, promoting artists like Holly Dunn, Judy Rodman, and Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet, and on his own with cutting edge clients such as Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam, and the Kentucky HeadHunters as his responsibility. His success got the attention of Tony Brown and Bruce Hinton at MCA. He joined the company in 1991.
MCA had trailed RCA for years as the dominant country label. "I don't think they had a culture of winning," Borchetta said. With a stable of artists that included George Strait, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood, Borchetta went to work, and MCA dominated the 1990s.
Borchetta moved to Dreamworks, where he competed successfully with MCA and advanced Toby Keith's career in a significant way. Borchetta detailed his return to MCA and its sister labels-where he teamed with John Zarling, and where he helped launch Sugarland-when Dreamworks was bought by parent company Universal Music Group.
As time wore on at Universal however, Borchetta grew restless again. He put together a prospectus-the equivalent of a master's thesis-detailing his plans for a new record company and the investment opportunities it would offer. Before he put his plans in motion fully, Borchetta agreed to take a meeting with an ambitious fifteen-year-old. He met Taylor Swift on November 2, 2004, in a meeting he set for 7 p.m., when his colleagues at the label would be gone for the day. "I was infatuated immediately," he recalled.
Borchetta offered to introduce Swift to his fellow Universal executives, but advised her that he would be gone from the label within a year. He described his still-incomplete plan for a new label, and said, "I promise you one thing. If you wait, I promise you a record deal." Swift called him ten days later and said she would wait for him, and Borchetta worked out an exit strategy with Universal executives James Stroud and Luke Lewis.
The Big Machine story is one of the great success sagas on Music Row. Borchetta and his team have developed new artists like Swift and the Band Perry, while also breathing new life into careers for Reba McEntire and Martina McBride, who has had her first Top Five hit in six years with Borchetta.
