Music News 12/8/2011
Life Notes: Barbara Orbison passes • Average Joe’s signs J. J. Lawhorn • EMI Music Publishing and Average Joe’s sign Ira Dean • Warner/Chappell Music Signs Damien Horne
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Music News 12/1/2011
Sony/ATV Hangs At Top of Publisher Airplay Chart • Parallel Music Publishing Signs First Writer • UMPG Re-Signs Andrew Dorff • Ben Hayslip Extends Warner/Chappell & This Music Agreement
BMI Award Winners
Songwriters of the Year: Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson Frances W. Preston Award (Country Song of the Year): “All Over Me,” Davidson and Akins; publishers EMI-Blackwood Music, Inc., Rhettneck Music, String Stretcher Music; recorded by Josh Turner Publisher of the Year: Sony/ATV BMI Icon: Bobby Braddock • • • • Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) celebrated […]
SESAC Award Winners
SESAC held its 2011 Nashville Music Awards on Nov. 7 at The Pinnacle at Symphony Place. The honors were hosted by SESAC VP Writer/Publisher Relations Tim Fink. Awards for the year’s top performing songs were given to the SESAC writers and publishers who helped create them. SESAC also recognized and honored several writers making significant […]
ASCAP Award Winners
ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) hosted its 49th annual Country Music Awards on Nov. 6 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville. The evening’s top honors were awarded to the following: ASCAP Songwriter of the Year: Ben Hayslip Hayslip scored his first Country Songwriter of the Year award. He wrote or […]