Warner/Chappell Music has been named ASCAP’s Music Publisher of the Year 2016, it was announced at last night’s 33rd annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
In addition, Ryan McMahon and Benjamin Berger of WCM songwriting trio Captain Cuts were honored with the “Song of the Year” award for co-writing Walk the Moon’s smash hit “Shut Up and Dance” last night by ASACP.
In 2012, Warner/Chappell was named ASCAP’s Music Publisher of the Year for the first time in more than a decade, and the company has now received this prestigious honor in three out of the last five years.
22 WCM songrwiters were given “Most Performed Song Awards” last night by ASCAP:
- “Bad Blood,” co-written by Kendrick Lamar
- “Can’t Feel My Face,” co-written by Ali Payami
- “Centuries,” co-written by Suzanne Vega
- “Cool for the Summer,” co-written by Ali Payami
- “Earned It,” co-written by Ahmad Balshe AKA Belly
- “GDFR,” co-written by Mike Caren, Andrew Cedar & Justin Franks
- “Heartbeat Song,” co-written by Audra Mae
- “Here,” co-written by Robert Gerongco
- “Like I’m Gonna Lose You,” co-written by Justin Weaver
- “Love Me Harder,” co-written by Ahmad Balshe AKA Belly & Ali Payami
- “Love Me Like You Do,” co-written by Tove Lo, Ali Payami & Ilya
- “Riptide,” co-written by James Keogh AKA Vance Joy
- “See You Again,” co-written by Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Dann Hume, Josh Hardy & Phoebe Cockburn
- “Shut Up and Dance,” co-written by Ryan McMahon & Benjamin Berger of Captain Cuts
- “Somebody,” co-written by Joe Khajadourian & Alex Schwartz
- “Style,” co-written by Ali Payami
- “Talking Body,” co-written by Ludvig Soderberg, Jakob Jerlstrom & Tove Lo
- “The Hills,” co-written by Ahmad Balshe AKA Belly & Emmanuel Nickerson
- “Uptown Funk,” co-written by Bruno Mars
- “What Do You Mean?” co-written by Mason Levy
- “Want to Want Me,” co-written by Sam Martin
- “Worth It,” co-written by Priscilla Renea