{"id":2023738,"date":"2025-09-15T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2023738"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:11:24","slug":"spirit-music-signs-hardy-to-go-forward-deal-acquires-select-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spirit-music-signs-hardy-to-go-forward-deal-acquires-select-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Music Signs HARDY to Go-Forward Deal, Acquires Select Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tS<\/span>pirit Music has acquired select songs from singer-songwriter HARDY<\/a>\u2018s music publishing catalog, while also signing the artist to a go-forward exclusive writing agreement with Spirit Music Nashville.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m pumped to be joining the Spirit Music family,\u201d\u00a0HARDY said in a statement. \u201cThey believe in the songs I write and that means a lot to me. I\u2019m excited to see what we can build together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHARDY is now with Spirit Music Nashville for songwriting, though he remains a partner in Relative Music Group as a publisher, which previously had his catalog. Relative Music Group signed a deal with Sony Music Publishing in 2021; Relative and\/or Sony continue to own their portions of the select HARDY compositions Spirit acquired, while Spirit Music owns HARDY\u2019s portion.<\/p>\n

\n\tMississippi native HARDY is a five-time ACM Award winner and a two-time CMA Award winner. As a songwriter, he\u2019s won three CMA Triple Play Awards, three Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) songwriter of the year accolades, and was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year.<\/p>\n

\n\tHARDY is a co-writer on his own No. 1 Country Airplay hits including \u201cOne Beer,\u201d and \u201cTruck Bed,\u201d as well as Dierks Bentley\u2019s \u201cBeers On Me,\u201d which features BRELAND and HARDY. He is also a writer on his RIAA three-time platinum duet with Lainey Wilson, \u201cWait in the Truck,\u201d and has co-written songs recorded by Morgan Wallen (\u201cMore Than My Hometown,\u201d \u201cSand in My Boots,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m A Little Crazy\u201d), Jelly Roll (\u201cChurch\u201d), Blake Shelton (\u201cGod\u2019s Country\u201d), Carrie Underwood (\u201cHate My Heart\u201d), and has had songs recorded by Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett, Dylan Scott, Florida Georgia Line, Cole Swindell, Vince Gill and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHARDY\u00a0is a multi-genre force of nature as an artist, a world-class songwriter and a great human being,\u201d said\u00a0Frank Rogers<\/strong>,\u00a0chief creative officer of Spirit Music Group and CEO of Spirit Music Nashville, in a statement. \u201cSpirit could not be more excited to welcome\u00a0HARDY\u00a0to the family and we are excited about helping him build on his already legendary career.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cAfter years of making music together, I couldn\u2019t be more proud to start this new chapter with my pal\u00a0HARDY\u00a0here at Spirit,\u201d\u00a0said Derek Wells<\/strong>, vp of A&R\/Production at Spirit Music Nashville\/2Mix.\u00a0\u201cGreat music with great people is the business we want to be in here, and\u00a0HARDY\u00a0hits that nail on the head. He is truly a \u20181 of 1\u2019 talent and human that elevates every room he\u2019s in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHARDY released Quit!! <\/em>in 2024 and saw the title reach No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Hard Rock Albums chart. Last year, HARDY headlined a set during CMA Fest, and collaborated with Fred Durst and Chad Smith. He\u2019ll release Country! Country! <\/em>on Sept. 26 via Big Loud Records, spearheaded by tracks \u201cFavorite Country Song,\u201d \u201cBottomland\u201d and the ERNEST collaboration \u201cBro Country.\u201d The same week Country! Country! <\/em>releases, HARDY will make his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden on his Jim Bob World Tour.<\/p>\n

\n\tHARDY\u00a0was represented in the new publishing deal by\u00a0Scott Safford<\/strong>\u00a0(Safford Motley PLC), while Spirit was represented by\u00a0Matthew Beckett<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0David Crow<\/strong> (Milom\/Crow\/Kelley\/Beckett\/Shehan PLC).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spirit Music has acquired select songs from singer-songwriter HARDY\u2018s music publishing catalog, while also signing the artist to a go-forward exclusive writing agreement with Spirit Music Nashville. \u201cI\u2019m pumped to be joining the Spirit Music family,\u201d\u00a0HARDY said in a statement. \u201cThey believe in the songs I write and that means a lot to me. I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023739,"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":[309228,372270,372271],"class_list":["post-2023738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-genre-country","tag-publishing","tag-spirit-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Spirit-Music-Signs-HARDY-to-Go-Forward-Deal-Acquires-Select-Catalog.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023738","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=2023738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}