Matt Jenkins Cracks the Twenty Names Nashville's Publishers Watch Most

The writer Matt Jenkins now sits among the twenty highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter rankings, the industry tally that Green Hills offices check the way other towns check the stock pages. A Kenny Chesney cut figures in the climb, which is the kind of credit that gets a writer noticed on Music Row and remembered at the next round of publishing lunches. The rankings measure who is writing what the format is actually playing, so a move into that tier reflects songs at work on the air rather than on a shelf. For a town that prizes the pen as much as the voice, it is the quiet sort of arrival worth noting.

With reporting from MusicRow.