Gaylord Entertainment in 2001, the hotelier made corporate changes at the company, including the ousting of longstanding president Roland Lundy. The Word Entertainment group was sold to then-AOL Time Warner in 2002. That same year, former Atlantic Records Christian division manager Barry Landis briefly took the position of president of the label group division. Word went through a period of restructuring, closing their Los Angeles music publishing office, absorbing Myrrh Records, Squint Entertainment, and Everland Entertainment into the Word Label Group, and reducing in-house staff. Curb Records also gained a stake in the company during this time. In 2004, the company was sold again as part of Time Warner divestiture of its music division, selling it to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. to form a newly independent Warner Music Group. In March 2016, it was announced that Mike Curb acquired 100% of Word Entertainment (excluding the print music division) from Warner Music Group. However, WMG has continued to distribute Word's output for the general market. The print music division (Word Music and Church Resources), excluding Word Publishing, was subsequently acquired by The Lorenz Corporation in February 2017. Artist roster This is a list of artists, past and present, who have recorded for Word Records over the past several decades: Current Meredith Andrews About a Mile Chris August For King & Country Francesca Battistelli Big Daddy Weave Blanca Jason Castro Everfound Family Force 5 (changed name to FF5) Group 1 Crew Love & the Outcome Dara Maclean Needtobreathe Point of Grace Sidewalk Prophets Stars Go Dim We Are Messengers Zealand Worship Former 4Him Across the Sky Dick Anthony The Archers Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters Helen Baylor Charles Billingsley Calvin Bridges Anita Bryant Building 429 Shirley Caesar Carman Bruce Carroll Johnny Cash The Cathedrals Patrick Ryan Clark Ashley Cleveland Clay Crosse Billy Ray Cyrus Dakota Motor Co Dana Downhere Bryan Duncan O'landa Draper and the Associates Evie The Florida Boys Gaither Vocal Band John Gimenez Happy Goodman Family Amy Grant Bruce Greer Guardian Holy Soldier The Hoppers The Imperials Wes King The Kingsmen Rachael Lampa The Lefevres The Lewis Family Liberation Suite Mark Lowry Kenny Marks Babbie Mason David Meece The Mercy River Boys Morning Chapel Hour Choir Rich Mullins The Nelons Michael Omartian Sandi Patti Petra David Phelps Leslie Phillips pureNRG Rachel Rachel Salvador Mark Schultz George Beverly Shea Sixpence None the Richer Janet Lynn Skinner