Miranda Lambert from Sony, Best Record Label of 20 Years

Admin | November 4, 2020

Miranda Lambert is shaking up her professional life in a big way. On Wednesday (March 15), she announced that she’s parting ways with Sony Music, the record label that has released every one of her major-label albums since the beginning of her career.

The singer underscores the gratitude she feels for her label, but also expresses her need for a refreshed creative perspective.

“I wouldn’t be true to myself if I wasn’t constantly looking for the next challenge and a new way to stretch my creativity,” she continues. “With that in mind, I’ve decided to say goodbye to my Sony family. I can’t wait to see what the next adventure holds.”

Lambert doesn’t say what her next label destination might be, or if she’s planning to release music independently. She does, however, share a retrospective picture that shows the covers of all nine albums she has released during her time at Sony.

Lambert first signed with Epic Records — a division of Sony — in September 2003, just a few months after her third-place finish on the first season of televised singing competition Nashville Star. It was the singer’s first-ever record deal.

At the time, the singer said that she was approached by Epic Records. Despite the fact that she was a new artist, Lambert already had a powerful sense of self, and she made it clear to the label that she had no intention of changing who she was to fit a proscribed image.

“When I got a record deal, I said, ‘I’m only wearing jeans. I’m not wearing frilly dresses,'” the singer said in an interview with Elle. “Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen. People were like, ‘Well, you know, you need to kind of be flexible on that,’ and I just wasn’t at all … Looking back on it, it was a little extreme, but I really stuck to it. Luckily, it worked, but even if it didn’t, I always knew that I’d be able to sleep at night.”