2019 ASCAP Accolades Booklet
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ACC OLA DES ASCAP MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2019 ASCAP members united our world in 2019. 2019 was another record-breaking, game-changing year for ASCAP members. Their music evolved in magnificent ways, connecting, inspiring, lifting and healing us as only music can. Here’s a look back at some of our members’ most remarkable THE achievements from 2019 and the past decade - a small sampling of the milestones met by our global family of music creators. We’ve also GOLDEN highlighted six ASCAP members from throughout our repertory who experienced breakout years in 2019. AGE Congratulations to ASCAP’s chart-topping, mold-breaking songwriters and composers – and to all of our 740,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members – for giving us something to sing about. THE GOLDEN AGE BILLIE EILISH & FINNEAS ASCAP superstars honored across the genre spectrum 2020 GRAMMY AWARDS Highlights… logged a sold-out world tour, performed at Coachella and made her Saturday Night Live BILLIE EILISH Best New Artist debut – all with FINNEAS alongside her in her Record of the Year - “Bad Guy” backing band. The accolades kept flowing: Album of the Year - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? the pair won the ASCAP Vanguard Award Song of the Year - “Bad Guy” in May, and were nominated for a collective Best Pop Vocal Album - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 11 Grammys; Eilish also picked up honors at FINNEAS the American Music Awards, Apple Music Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Awards, MTV VMAs, Teen Choice Awards and Record of the Year - “Bad Guy” Album of the Year - When We All Fall Asleep, more. By year’s end, FINNEAS had become Where Do We Go? the #1 songwriter of 2019 on Billboard’s Hot Song of the Year - “Bad Guy” Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - 100 Songwriters list, not long after releasing When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? his own debut, Blood Harmony EP; and Eilish JACOB COLLIER While Billie Eilish and her brother FINNEAS acclaim, becoming the year’s best-selling was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella - “Moon River” gained plenty of attention since their 2016 album in the US and several other countries; Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year. To cap off their Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals - “All Night Long” debut single “Ocean Eyes,” 2019 was the year it also set a record for most simultaneously incredible year, the pair won 10 Grammys, when they transformed into record-breaking, charting Hot 100 songs (14) by a female artist. making Eilish the first woman to win all four THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Best Dance Recording - worldwide superstars. Released in late With the release of her “Bad Guy” single and a major Grammy categories, and FINNEAS the “Got to Keep On” (w/ Steve Dub Jones) March, Eilish’s debut album When We All Fall subsequent Justin Bieber remix, Eilish became youngest ever winner of Producer of the Year. Best Dance/Electronic Album - No Geography Asleep, Where Do We Go? (written by the two the first artist born in the 2000s to notch a Not bad for a pair of homeschooled siblings for KING & COUNTRY Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/ who created an entire sonic universe in their of them, and produced entirely by FINNEAS) #1 single in the US (it topped the charts in Song - “God Only Knows” (w/ Jordan Reynolds) earned rapturous critical and commercial another 15 countries). By year’s end, Eilish had childhood bedroom. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Burn the Ships THE GOLDEN AGE THE GOLDEN AGE 2020 GOLDEN GLOBES & OSCARS ANTHONY FERRARI & CASEY KASPRZYK PEDRO CAPÓ Outstanding Original Song - “You’re the One” Song of the Year - “Calma” Highlights… BERNIE TAUPIN from The Bold and the Beautiful (w/ George Noriega & Rec808) Best Original Song - Best Urban Fusion/Performance - JONATHAN McREYNOLDS “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” THE CAST OF THE BAND’S VISIT “Calma (Remix)” (w/ Farruko) Artist of the Year from Rocketman Outstanding Musical Performance - “Answer Me,” performed on the Today Show EL GUINCHO CD of the Year - Make Room Album of the Year - El Mal Querer Contemporary CD of the Year - Make Room Best Engineered Album - El Mal Querer Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year PULITZER PRIZE Male Vocalist of the Year IN MUSIC KANY GARCÍA Song of the Year - “Not Lucky, I’m Loved” ANAÏS MITCHELL Best Singer-Songwriter Album - Contra El Viento Producer of the Year (w/ Darryl “Lil Man” Howell) ELLEN REID - p r i s m Best Musical - Hadestown Best Music Video Short Version - Urban/Inspirational Single or Performance Best Score - Hadestown “Banana Papaya” of the Year - “Not Lucky, I’m Loved” First Best Musical winner with book, music & lyrics PRIMETIME EMMYS written single-handedly by a woman JEKALYN CARR CMA AWARDS Albertina Walker Female Vocalist of the Year MARCO BELTRAMI RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! Traditional CD of the Year - One Nation Under God & BRANDON ROBERTS Best Revival of a Musical GARTH BROOKS Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year Outstanding Music Composition for a Entertainer of the Year Documentary Series or Special - Free Solo HAROLD WHEELER Unprecedented 7th win in this category Lifetime Achievement Award HITMAKERS LIST ADAM SCHLESINGER & JACK DOLGEN GREG KURSTIN Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics JASON MICHAEL WEBB Album of the Year - Girl BILLIE EILISH “Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal” Special Tony Award Hitmaker of the Year from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend OLD DOMINION BTS Vocal Group of the Year AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO Group of the Year LATIN GRAMMYS Highlights… & DANIEL PALLADINO DAN + SHAY LOUIS BELL Outstanding Music Supervision ALEJANDRO SANZ Vocal Duo of the Year Producer of the Year The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Record of the Year - “Mi Persona Favorita” Best Pop Song - “Mi Persona Favorita” TRENT REZNOR Hitmakers: DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS Best Music Video Long Version - Musical Event of the Year - AMY ALLEN JOZZY “Lo Que Fui Es Lo Que Soy” “Old Town Road (Remix)” TOMMY BROWN SAVAN KOTECHA CIRKUT MADISON PAUL ANTONELLI, KEN CORDAY ANDRÉS CALAMARO FINNEAS VICTORIA MONÉT & D. BRENT NELSON Best Pop/Rock Album - Cargar La Suerte Outstanding Music Direction & Composition - SAM HOLLANDER ANTHONY ROSSOMANDO Best Rock Song - “Verdades Afiladas” Days of Our Lives JONAS JEBERG STARGATE (w/ German Wiedemer) ILYA BILLY WALSH THE GOLDEN AGE WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS APPLE MUSIC AWARDS ANTHONY ROSSOMANDO BILLIE EILISH Best Original Song - “Shallow” Artist of the Year from A Star Is Born Songwriter of the Year (w/ FINNEAS) Album of the Year - When We Fall Asleep, MICHAEL ABELS - Discovery of the Year Where Do We Go? JOHN POWELL - Public Choice Award KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI LATIN MUSIC AWARDS FRÉDÉRIC DEVREESE Lifetime Achievement Awards Highlights… ROMEO SANTOS AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS Tropical Artist of the Year, Solo THE Tropical Artist of the Year, Duo or Group BTS (w/ Aventura) Favorite Duo or Group – Pop/Rock Tropical Song of the Year - “Sobredosis” Favorite Social Artist Tour of the Year CASPER MÁGICO, NIO GARCÍA, DARELL CHART & BAD BUNNY - “Te Boté” BILLIE EILISH Hot Latin Song of the Year New Artist of the Year Streaming Song of the Year Favorite Artist – Alternative Rock DADDY YANKEE DAN + SHAY Digital Song of the Year - “Dura” TOPPERS Favorite Duo or Group – Country Favorite Song – Country: “Speechless” NATTI NATASHA Hot Latin Songs Artist of the Year, Female BEYONCÉ Favorite Female Artist – Soul/R&B RAYMIX Regional Mexican Song of the Year - “Oye Mujer” CARDI B Favorite Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop REIK Latin Pop Song of the Year - “Me Niego” QUEEN Favorite Soundtrack - Bohemian Rhapsody THE CHART TOPPERS BAD BUNNY ASCAP members set streaming and chart records, and crafted the sound of 2019. Latin trap and reggaeton star Bad Bunny is one of the biggest names in Latin music, the kind of star whose every release is advertised on the sides of buildings in his native Puerto Rico. But 2019 was the year when he broke through to music’s mainstream. Following the massive global success of “I Like It” with Cardi B and J Balvin (the 2019 ASCAP Latin Song of the Year), Bad Bunny dropped his debut LP X 100pre on Christmas of 2018. Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and YEAR-END SONGWRITER & PRODUCER CHARTS The New York Times praised its off-kilter mix of styles and sonic textures; the album sent over a dozen songs onto the GLOBAL TOP LISTS - TOP 5 Latin charts, including the massive crossover hit “MIA,” a top 5 smash on the Billboard Hot 100. Next up was Oasis, BAD BUNNY MOST-STREAMED ARTISTS a laid-back collaborative album between Bad Bunny and J Balvin that hit #9 on the mainstream album charts on the #1 Hot Latin Songwriter strength of singles like “Qué Pretendes” and “La Canción.” A week after X 100pre won the Latin Grammy for Best 2. BILLIE EILISH LOUIS BELL 3. ARIANA GRANDE Urban Music Album, Bad Bunny made history with “Vete” – the highest Hot 100 debut for a Spanish-language song #1 Hot 100 Producer 5. BAD BUNNY with no features. No doubt, Bad Bunny earned his #1 spot on the Billboard Year-End Hot Latin Songwriters chart – #1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Producer #1 Hot Rap Songs Producer he’s one of the most prolific, creative songwriters we’ve got in any genre. MOST-STREAMED FEMALE ARTISTS FINNEAS 1. BILLIE EILISH #1 Hot 100 Songwriter 2. ARIANA GRANDE ASHLEY GORLEY MOST-STREAMED MALE ARTISTS #1 Hot Country Songwriter 3. BAD BUNNY DANN HUFF #1 Hot Country Producer MOST-STREAMED TRACKS 1. “Señorita” – co-written by Charli XCX FREDDIE MERCURY 2. “Bad Guy” – co-written by Billie Eilish & Finneas #1 Hot Rock Songwriter 3.