ABOUT

Tape Room Music is a Nashville-based music publishing company lead by hit songwriter Ashley Gorley.

Tape Room Music is an independent music publishing company run by hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. Gorley has written a record 64 #1 singles recorded by artists such as Morgan Wallen, Chris Stapleton, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Weezer, and more. He has been honored as ASCAP Songwriter of the Year an unprecedented nine times. He is a six-time Billboard Top Country Songwriter, six-time NSAI Songwriter of the Year, and 2021 iHeart Radio All-Genre Songwriter of the Year, landing the nomination again in 2022. He has multiple Grammy, CMA, and ACM nominations. In 2022, he signed a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing and Domain Capital Group.
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In 2011, Gorley formed his own publishing and artist development company, Tape Room Music. Writers for Tape Room have celebrated nearly 40 #1 songs, including 2018 ASCAP Country Song of the Year, “Body Like A Back Road” (Zach Crowell) and 2021 ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC Country Song, “One Of Them Girls” (Ben Johnson). In 2022, Tape Room celebrated 8 weeks topping radio charts, with two year-end number-one songs. Ben Johnson’s “Take My Name” topped the year-end Billboard Country Airplay chart, while Hunter Phelps and Will Weatherly’s “Thinking ‘Bout You” led the Mediabase Year-End Country Airplay chart. Tape Room Music writers continue to stretch the bounds of their abilities, spreading their talents across writing, producing, and performing. From commercial country to honky tonk twang to groundbreaking pop, Tape Room writers have all bases covered.