Roy Wunsch, a former CEO of
Sony Music Nashville, founded the label in 1994 with Bud Schaetzle. Imprint was the first independent country record label to be listed as a publicly traded company on
NASDAQ. Its first release was
Gretchen Peters' 1996 disc
The Secret of Life. Peters,
The GrooveGrass Boyz,
Bob Woodruff and
Jeff Wood charted singles for the label between 1996 and 1997, with the latter two also releasing albums. The GrooveGrass Boyz had the most commercially successful release for the label, selling more than 80,000 copies of a country version of "
Macarena". At the point of its closure, Imprint had made less than $200,000 in revenue, despite investing more than $1 million in the albums it had shipped. ==Artists==