On March 23, 2011, Alan Jackson signed with Capitol's EMI Nashville division in conjunction with his own ACR Records label.

In 2013, Capitol Records Nashville became part of Universal Music after the latter bought and subsequently broke up EMI.

Other artists signed to EMI include Eric Church and Alan Jackson (in a shared agreement with his own ACR Records).

MCA Nashville started out as the country music division of Decca Records in 1945, founded by Paul Cohen[3] in New York.

In 1979, MCA Nashville absorbed the country music roster (including Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and The Oak Ridge Boys) and back catalogue of ABC Records including the Dot Records catalogue.

In the early 1980s, MCA Nashville signed Reba McEntire[6] and George Strait,[7] two of the greatest selling artists of all time and the mega stars on the record label.

However, MCA Nashville continues to reissue past country releases from Decca, as well as those on the Kapp label.

When PolyGram was purchased by MCA (now Universal Music) in 1999, the resulting record label consolidations left Mercury under The Island Def Jam Music Group umbrella, making Mercury in the US dormant until recently, but still active internationally.

Most reissues of country music recordings first issued on the MGM, Polydor, and other former PolyGram labels bear the Mercury Nashville imprint.