A Writer's Name Climbs Into Music Row's Upper Ten

Parker Welling now sits among the ten highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter chart. In this town, that's the list the room actually reads. The artists get the marquee, but the people who write the songs are the ones the industry keeps track of, from the publishing offices to the Green Hills kitchens where the next single tends to start. Getting into that top group is the kind of arrival Nashville notices without saying much about it.

With reporting from MusicRow.