{"id":1954439,"date":"2025-08-11T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1954439"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:38:54","slug":"benny-brown-acquires-wide-open-music-publishing-forms-new-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/benny-brown-acquires-wide-open-music-publishing-forms-new-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Brown Acquires Wide Open Music Publishing, Forms New Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<span>M<\/span>usic executive <strong>Benny Brown<\/strong> has acquired all assets from Wide Open Music Publishing and formed the new music publishing venture North Chapel Music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe new publishing company is now home to the full song catalog of Wide Open Music (launched by <strong>Ash Bowers <\/strong>and<strong> Steve Williams<\/strong> in 2013), including Brett Young\u2019s \u201cIn Case You Didn\u2019t Know,\u201d George Birge\u2019s \u201cMind On You\u201d and Matt Stell\u2019s \u201cPrayed For You.\u201d Wide Open Music\u2019s roster of songwriters is now also with North Chapel, including Jaron Boyer, Neal Coty, Matt Gorman, Joe Hanson, Joe Haydel, Lakelin Lemmings, Tim Owens, Chris Ray, Aaron Scherz, John Stephens and Nathan Woodard. Five additional songwriters have also signed publishing deals with North Chapel Music, including Matt Cooper, Spencer Hatcher, Connor Hatcher, Jason Sellers and Jennifer Wayne (founding member of Runaway June).<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-align-items-center u-align-items-flex-start@mobile-max  lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max u-width-710@desktop lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-u-margin-tb-1 u-margin-b-250@mobile-max u-margin-t-275@mobile-max u-margin-t-250@desktop u-margin-b-250@desktop u-margin-lr-n1@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-border-color-brand-secondary-dark lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-padding-tb-1  lrv-u-padding-tb-1@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-1@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-l-00@mobile-max u-grid-gap-18@desktop u-grid-gap-0@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary a-font-accent-xl u-font-weight-800 u-letter-spacing-0179 u-line-height-normal lrv-u-color-grey-dark bb-pro-related-stories-label lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story-wrapper lrv-u-flex lrv-u-justify-content-space-between  a-children-border-vertical a-children-border--grey a-children-border-width-050\">\n<div class=\"o-card  lrv-u-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-width-191 u-width-150@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-00@mobile-max u-width-130px@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-00@mobile-max\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/brown-sellers-brown-rebrand-quartz-hill-music-ash-bowers\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-crop-6x4 a-crop-3x2@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrown has named former Wide Open Music executive <strong>Paul Compton<\/strong> as executive vp of North Chapel Music, where he will be responsible for all day-to-day creative and administrative management duties. In addition to being signed as a songwriter, <strong>Jason Sellers<\/strong> has been named as North Chapel Music\u2019s senior creative director, while <strong>Wendy Buckner <\/strong>has been named as creative director for North Chapel Music, reporting to Compton. Most recently, Buckner was a day-to-day manager for artists at BSB Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrown\u2019s career history includes founding BBR Music Group (now part of BMG). He most recently launched Quartz Hill Music Group, inclusive of Quartz Hill Records, Stone Country Records and BSB Management (North Chapel Music serves as a sister company to Quartz Hill Music Group).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBowers was previously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/brown-sellers-brown-rebrand-quartz-hill-music-ash-bowers\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/brown-sellers-brown-rebrand-quartz-hill-music-ash-bowers\/\">named<\/a> executive vp of Quartz Hill Music Group and will continue in that role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m excited to launch North Chapel Music, where great songs and great songwriters will always be our greatest assets,\u201d Brown said in a statement. \u201cThere\u2019s so much value in our catalog, and especially in our people, so I jumped at the chance to get back into the publishing business.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m grateful to Benny for entrusting me to lead his vision of the newly formed North Chapel Music,\u201d Compton said. \u201cWith our growing roster of established writers and developing artist writers, North Chapel will serve as a direct source of music and artistry for Benny\u2019s QHMG record labels, as well as servicing career-elevating music and talent for the global music market.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSince the day we launched Brown Sellers Brown, now QHMG, I suspected Benny would wanna get back deeper into publishing,\u201d Sellers added. \u201cHe loves our artists, he loves our teams, but he LOVES<em>\u00a0<\/em>great songs. And I do too. So, whether it\u2019s writing, or broader strategy, I\u2019m very excited to support him in this new venture.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music executive Benny Brown has acquired all assets from Wide Open Music Publishing and formed the new music publishing venture North Chapel Music. The new publishing company is now home to the full song catalog of Wide Open Music (launched by Ash Bowers and Steve Williams in 2013), including Brett Young\u2019s \u201cIn Case You Didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1954440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[342737,309228,23510,342738],"class_list":["post-1954439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-benny-brown","tag-genre-country","tag-nashville","tag-wide-open-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Benny-Brown-Acquires-Wide-Open-Music-Publishing-Forms-New-Company.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}