Pictured: (L-R): Back row: Producer and engineer Justin Niebank, Big Machine’s Laurel Kittleson, producer Dann Huff, Big Machine’s Mike Molinar, Downtown Publishing’s Steve Markland, BMI’s David Preston, Word Publishing’s Janine Appleton, SESAC’s Shannon Hatch, Red Creative’s Jeremy Stover and ASCAP’s Mike Sistad. Front row: Downtown Publishing’s Danny Berrios, Red Creative’s Brooke Antonakos, Downtown Publishing’s Natalie Osborne, songwriter Justin Ebach, singer/songwriter Brett Young, BMI songwriter Kelly Archer, Big Machine’s Scott Borchetta and Jimmy Harnen.
Music industry executives, friends and family gathered at the Westin Hotel in downtown Nashville January 10 to celebrate BMI songwriter Kelly Archer’s first #1 hit, Brett Young’s “Sleep Without You.” Co-written with Young and songwriter Justin Ebach, the song is the first single from Young’s debut EP, topping the charts in early 2016. Archer has cuts by Jo Dee Messina and the Eli Young Band and writes for Red Creative Group.
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