Sony Music Nashville executive VP Butch Waugh has announced plans to retire at the end of the year, capping off a successful, 37-year career in the music business, where he has worked in the pop, urban and country formats. He spent 27 of those years with Sony Music Entertainment, including stints as a local promotion rep for predecessor RCA in Atlanta, and then executive positions in New York and Nashville. He has been part of Sony’s Music Row operation for a dozen years. Following Waugh’s retirement, label group marketing VP Tom Baldrica and promotion VP Skip Bishop will report directly to Sony Music Nashville chairman Joe Galante. For more on this story, see the article in the country section of Radio-Info.