{"id":862275,"date":"2025-07-13T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/secretly-group-execs-acquire-50-of-merge-records-from-co-founder-laura-ballance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:13:28","slug":"secretly-group-execs-acquire-50-of-merge-records-from-co-founder-laura-ballance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/secretly-group-execs-acquire-50-of-merge-records-from-co-founder-laura-ballance\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretly Group Execs Acquire 50% of Merge Records from Co-Founder Laura Ballance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly Group execs have acquired 50% of indie label Merge Records, from which co-founder and co-president Laura Ballance is stepping away. Bloomington-based Secretly announced the investment and the related executive departure today. Beginning with the former, Secretly\u2019s formal release indicates that the aforementioned execs and co-founders (Ben and Chris Swanson&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2025\/06\/10\/secretly-group-merge-records-deal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Randy Haslett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly Group execs have acquired 50% of indie label Merge Records, from which co-founder and co-president Laura Ballance is stepping away. Bloomington-based Secretly announced the investment and the related executive departure today. Beginning with the former, Secretly\u2019s formal release indicates that the aforementioned execs and co-founders (Ben and Chris Swanson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1222,23472,192],"tags":[6796,5768],"class_list":{"0":"post-862275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-group","8":"category-secretly","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-group","11":"tag-secretly"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}