Been By Now by Morgan Wallen: Hot 100 No. 4 — Credits and Metadata

By Byron Jupiter · Billboard Metadata · Hot 100 chart dated October 17, 2026 · checked October 16, 2026

Why this song today: Friday’s report covers the No. 1 song on the Hot 100. That song, Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero,” already has a report here. So do No. 2, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” (credits report), and No. 3, Stella Lefty’s “Boston” (credits report). This report moves to the next-highest song not yet covered: “Been By Now” by Morgan Wallen, at No. 4.

The chart line

Title: Been By Now
Artist: Morgan Wallen; solo billing, no featured artist
Position: No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated October 17, 2026 (up from No. 7)
Weeks on chart: 11
Peak: No. 2
Source: Billboard’s Hot 100 page for the week of October 17, 2026

The record

Release date: July 24, 2026, as a single. Big Loud’s announcement said it would be “available everywhere on July 24” (Big Loud announcement, July 20, 2026; Big Loud release notice, July 27, 2026).
First played: live, at Wallen’s stadium show in Baltimore the week before release, per Big Loud.
Label: Big Loud and Mercury Records, with Republic as the press partner, per Big Loud’s notices. Big Loud does not print the single’s label line itself, so the exact ℗ holder is unconfirmed.
Distributor: unconfirmed. Mercury and Republic are Universal Music Group labels, which points to Universal distribution, but no official page checked names the distributor.
ISRC: unconfirmed. The SoundExchange ISRC search needs a full browser and no official page checked prints the code.
ISWC: unconfirmed.

Full credits

Role	Name	Status
Songwriters	Morgan Wallen, Charlie Handsome (Ryan Vojtesak), John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, Rocky Block, Taylor Phillips	Confirmed in Big Loud’s official notices; shares not yet confirmed in a PRO database
Producer	Joey Moi	Confirmed in Big Loud’s official notices
Co-producers	Charlie Handsome; Matt Hastings	Unconfirmed; reported in reference coverage, not on an official page checked
Recording engineer	—	Unconfirmed
Mixing engineer	—	Unconfirmed
Mastering engineer	—	Unconfirmed
Session players and singers	—	Unconfirmed; none documented on any official page checked

Publishing and PROs

Publishers: unconfirmed. No official source checked names which company holds which writer’s share.
PRO for each writer: unconfirmed. BMI Repertoire and ASCAP ACE did not return a readable result here and should be checked by hand.
Mechanicals: The MLC public search loads only with a full browser; no entry confirmed.

What the credits show

This is a team record built inside one Nashville system. Six writers share the song, Wallen among them, and Joey Moi, the producer behind most of Wallen’s catalog, made it. Charlie Handsome sits on the writer list and is reported as a co-producer too, which would put him on both sides of the money. That money moves two ways. The master (the recording) earns from streams and sales and goes to the label side, Big Loud and Mercury, and then to Wallen under terms that are not public. The publishing (the song) earns performance royalties through each writer’s PRO and mechanical royalties through The MLC, split six ways among the writers and their publishers. On digital radio (SiriusXM, internet radio), SoundExchange pays 50% to the master owner, 45% to the featured artist, and 5% to non-featured players and singers through the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Fund. Because no session players are documented yet, nobody can say who shares that 5%.

Left unconfirmed

ISRC, ISWC, distributor, the exact ℗ holder, co-producer credits for Charlie Handsome and Matt Hastings, recording, mixing and mastering engineers, session players, publishers, each writer’s PRO, and the writer splits.

Q&A

Q: Where is “Been By Now” on the Hot 100 this week?
A: No. 4 on the chart dated October 17, 2026, up from No. 7, in its 11th week, with a peak of No. 2.

Q: Who wrote “Been By Now”?
A: Morgan Wallen, Charlie Handsome, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, Rocky Block and Taylor Phillips, per Big Loud. Shares have not been confirmed in a PRO database.

Q: Who produced “Been By Now”?
A: Joey Moi, per Big Loud. Co-production by Charlie Handsome and Matt Hastings is reported but unconfirmed.

Q: When did “Been By Now” come out, and on what label?
A: July 24, 2026, through Big Loud and Mercury Records.

Q: Who gets paid when “Been By Now” plays on digital radio?
A: SoundExchange splits it 50% to the master owner, 45% to the featured artist, and 5% to non-featured players and singers through the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Fund.

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