Montage Music Group Names SONY BMG’s RED as Distribution Partner

            Nashville, TN – Montage Music Group has just signed a distribution deal with RED Distribution, a division of SONY BMG Music Entertainment.  “I am very happy to be associated with Bob Morelli and everyone at RED again. I am confident that our product is in very capable hands and I look forward to having them on our team,” Says Allen Butler, President and CEO, Montage Music Group.

Butler, formerly the President of SONY Records Nashville, has had a working relationship with RED for quite some time.  Aligning Montage Music Group with  RED for distribution was a natural fit.

“We are very proud to begin our relationship with Montage. I have worked with Allen during his days of running Arista Nashville promotion. As a fan, I watched Allen run and developed SONY Nashville into the powerhouse country label it became. I couldn’t be happier that he chose RED to be the home for his new label, and we hope to add our expertise and partnership in making this one of the premiere labels in Nashville,” says Bob Morelli, EVP/GM RED Distribution.

Since 1979 RED Distribution has been the leading Independent Distributor of Music in the United States.  RED has won numerous awards for its consistently innovative work and recently won the NARM 2006 Distributor of the Year / Medium Division award for the second year in a row, the industry's most prestigious honor RED Distribution is a division of SONY BMG Music Entertainment.