Editing Polydor Records (section)

==Polydor Nashville==
Record producer [[Harold Shedd]] founded Polydor's [[Nashville, Tennessee]], division in 1994, which specialised in [[country music]]. Among the acts signed to Polydor Nashville were Shane Sutton, Tasha Harris, [[4 Runner]], [[the Moffatts]], [[Chely Wright]], Mark Luna, [[Clinton Gregory]], [[Amie Comeaux]],<ref>{{Cite magazine | title= A&M Nashville a Victim of Country Label Growth | last1=Evans Price |first1=Deborah |last2=Flippo |first2=Chet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22A%26M%22+%22chely+wright%22&pg=PA6 | page=6 |magazine = Billboard | publisher = Nielsen Business Media Inc. | date = 21 September 1996}}</ref> along with [[Toby Keith]] and [[Davis Daniel]], who transferred from [[Mercury Nashville]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Mercury Focuses on Tighter Roster| last1=Morris |first1=Edward | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_SggEAAAAMBAJ/page/n39 |page=40 | magazine = Billboard| publisher = Nielsen Business Media Inc. | date = 14 May 1994}}</ref> The Nashville division was renamed A&M Nashville in March 1996 and closed in September of the same year, as PolyGram consolidated all its Nashville operations under the Mercury name. Today, Polydor, along with [[EMI Records]] in the UK and Australia and UMG itself in Canada distribute [[Lost Highway Records]]' albums in the [[Commonwealth realms]].