Warner Music Studio on Music Row, 2019. Image courtesy of MHCF.
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Warner Music and Warner Production
In 1974, music producer Fred Foster opened the Nashville branch of Monument Records label in the house located at 21 Music Square East. At the time, Monument Records, based in Washington D.C., represented Charlie McCoy and Roy Orbison. Later clients included country legends such as Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton. The studio changed hands many times, first in 1984 when the building was purchased by actress Mary Tyler Moore, who owned a music production company. At the time, they represented Holly Dunn, who recorded “Daddy’s Hands,” and Judy Rodman, who sang “Until I Met You.” In 1989, Warner Music Group purchased the studio from the Mary Tyler Moore Music Group for $1.1 million. Warner Music Group is part of the Warner Media conglomerate, which dates back to the founding of Warner Brothers Studio in 1918.
The recording studios were renovated in 2005. After more than sixty years of working with some of the biggest names in country music, Warner Music Group and its family of labels officially expanded their presence in Music City with the creation of Warner Music Nashville in 2009. Artists with Warner Music include Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Kenny Chesney, Raelynn, Dee White, Cale Dodds, Brett Eldredge, and Tegan Marie.
Warner Music Group also owns Warner/Chappell Productions, who operates the studio across the street. The studio space at 20 Music Square East began in 1986 as SyncroSound Studios. In 1989, Warner/Chappell purchased and renovated the studio.
Continue walking north on Music Square East. BMI will be on your right, just after passing Music Circle North. The NHF historical marker will be on your right, visible from the sidewalk.
Tour Stops
Owen Bradley Park, Musica Statue, Buddy Killen Circle
1 Music Square East at Division Street
ASCAP and Sony Music
2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
Tree Publishing, Former Fire Hall No. 7
16 Music Square West, Nashville, TN
RCA Studio B
1611 Roy Acuff Place, Nashville, TN 37203
Carnival Music and Mural
24 Music Square West, Number 2, Nashville TN
RCA Studio A
30 Music Square West, Number 100, Nashville, TN 37203
Word Entertainment
25 Music Square West, Nashville, TN
Starstruck Studios
40 Music Square West, Nashville TN
iHeartMedia
55 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
Quadrafonic or Quad Studios, Round Hill Music
1802 Grand Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212
Scarritt Bennett Center
1027 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Ocean Way Nashville Studios
1200 Seventeenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Little Sisters of the Poor, now Vanderbilt University
1400 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Allentown Studios, formerly Jack’s Tracks
1308 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
PLA Media
1303 Sixteenth Avenue South A, Nashville, TN 37212
Big Machine Records
1219 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
House of David
1205 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Landmark Community Bank, formerly CBS Songs and Sony Music
1013 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Belmont Church
68 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
Curb College, Quonset Hut, and Columbia Records
34 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
SESAC and Country Music Association (CMA)
35 Music Square East, Nashville TN
Decca Records
27 Music Square East, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Warner Music and Warner Production
21 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
BMI and Frances Preston
10 Music Square East Nashville, TN 37203
Spence Manor Motor Hotel and Webb Pierce Guitar Swimming Pool
11 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203