Tape Room Music Celebrates 2025 Accolades

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Pictured (L-R): Caroline Hodson, Blain Rhodes, Ashley Gorley and Katherine Godwin. Photo: Courtesy of Tape Room Music

Tape Room Music is celebrating their 2025 accolades, which included industry awards, No. 1 tracks and more.

The company notched 16 songs on Billboard’s Year-End Hot Country Songs chart, seven on their Year-End Country Airplay Songs and four songs on the all-genre Year-End Hot 100 Songs, in addition to landing eight tracks on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase Year-End Country Songs chart and three on the Big Picture Songs chart. Tape Room ends the year with three hits currently climbing in the top 5 including Blake Shelton’s “Stay Country or Die Tryin’,” HARDY’s “Favorite Country Song,” and Megan Moroney’s “6 Months Later.”

Tape Room Music writers were also recognized throughout the year, as Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps and Taylor Phillips received CMA Triple Play Awards, Casey Brown and Phillips were honored as GRAMMY nominees for Country Song of the Year, Johnson, Phillips and Andy Sheridan earned BMI Country Awards, Brown earned a SESAC Country Award, and Johnson was celebrated as a Variety Hitmaker.

The independent publishing company garnered 8 No. 1 singles this year, including Johnson’s “All The Way,” performed by BigXThaPlug featuring Bailey Zimmerman, which topped both Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, as Phillips, Johnson and Phelps all commemorated 10+ No. 1 singles.

Additionally, Beau Bailey earned his first two Country Airplay Top 5 songs, both still climbing the charts, Johnson was featured on the Netflix series Hitmakers, Wyatt McCubbin joined Riley Green’s “Damn Country Music Tour” and was featured on Chase Rice’s “Two Tone Trippin’,” and Jordan Rowe joined Anne Wilson on “The Stars Tour.”

Tape Room also added Connor Hicks to the roster and added Katherine Godwin to the team as Manager, A&R. Caroline Hodson, Director, A&R and writer Ben Williams were recognized by Nashville Briefing’s 30 Under 30.

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