Pictured (from left to right, standing): Blain Rhodes (President, Tape Room Music); Ben Vaughn (President & CEO, Warner Chappell Music) and Ashley Gorley (Founder, Tape Room Music); (from left to right, sitting): Benji Amaefule, (Manager, A&R, Warner Chappell Music); Ben Williams and Caroline Hodson (Director, A&R, Tape Room Music). Photo: Luke Hutcherson
Tape Room Music and Warner Chappell Music have signed Ben Williams to an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement.
“I couldn’t be more excited to be working with Tape Room and Warner Chappell,” says Williams. “I’m so excited to be working with my close friends Caroline (Hodson) And Benji (Amaefule) and have some of the best people and best teams by my side! Many thanks to Ashley Gorley And Blaine Rhodes for taking me under your wing and preparing me for what comes next, as well as Ben Vaughn, Spencer Nohe and everyone at Warner Chappell who believed in me along the way! I’m so excited to see what the future holds!”
Williams scored his first No. 1 hit on country radio with Megan Moroney’s double platinum hit “Tennessee Orange.” He also co-wrote the platinum hits “I’m Not Pretty” with Moroney and “Narcissist” with Avery Anna, earning nominations for MusicRow‘s Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year and AIMP’s Rising Songwriter of the Year in 2023.
“Ben is everything you could want in a writer: talented, driven and an all-around great human being,” says Hodson, Director of A&R at Tape Room Music. “He has proven himself to be an important member of the Nashville community as a writer and friend to many. We are thrilled to be working with Warner Chappell and couldn’t be happier to welcome Ben to the Tape Room family!”
“Ben has had an incredible start to his career because he has the ability to meet artists and songwriters exactly where they are in their lives,” adds Amaefule, A&R Manager for Warner Chappell Music Nashville. “As a result, he has written some of the catchiest and most impactful songs out there today. I look forward to working with him and the Tape Room team to bring his songs to the ears of people across the country and around the world for years to come.”
LB Cantrell is Editor/Operations Manager at MusicRow magazine, where she oversees, manages and executes all company operations. LB oversees all MusicRow-related content, including the publication’s six annual print issues and online news. She is a Georgia native and graduate of Middle Tennessee State University’s Recording Industry Management program.
