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MUSIC. MORE THAN EVER.

ASCAP MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020 ASCAP MUSIC WAS A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS IN 2020.

In a year marked by division, uncertainty and isolation, the global ASCAP family lifted our spirits and kept us connected when we couldn’t be with each other in person.

ASCAP members met this challenging year head on. They wrote extraordinary music that spoke to the difficult times we in. They inspired change and reflection, and united fans from disparate backgrounds. They broke records and barriers.

Here’s a look back at some of ASCAP members’ remarkable achievements from 2020 – just a few of the countless reasons we had to be proud of the 800,000 , and publishers we represent. TOP BRASS When global pop star released her highly-anticipated sophomore Nostalgia on March 27 of 2020, the world was in the process of plunging into the new reality of COVID-19. Pre-lockdown, the native had already locked in GRAMMYs, , the ASCAP Vanguard Award and an ocean of critical praise. But rocketed her into the stratosphere, by giving the world exactly what we needed in 2020. The album struck a chord with millions of housebound fans looking to dance their anxieties away from the safety of their homes – especially the infectious hit “Don’t Start Now,” her highest-charting in the US so far. And despite the cancellation of a massive tour, Dua even managed to bring a live experience to her fans through her four- night livestream , a stunning tribute to New York’s iconic club featuring superstar guests including , , FKA Twigs, and . To close out the year, Dua picked a massive six GRAMMY nominations. ASCAP STARS HONORED TOP BRASS WITH MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

ACADEMY OF AWARDS Favorite Female Artist, Latin OLD DOMINION Group of the Year Song of the Year – “One Man ” (w/ ) Favorite Song, Rap/Hip-Hop – “WAP”

DAN + SHAY DUA LIPA Duo of the Year Favorite Song, Pop/Rock – “Don’t Start Now”

CAYLEE HAMMACK Fooled Around and Fell in Love ANNIE AWARDS HILLARY LINDSEY of the Year DAN LEVY (SACEM) Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature – Lost My Body New Female Artist of the Year

APRA MUSIC AWARDS Highlights... (APRA) DAN + SHAY & Song of the Year – “” Collaboration of the Year – “10,000 Hours” Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year Favorite Song, Country – “10,000 Hours” Favorite Duo or Group, Country (Dan + Shay) KIAN (APRA) – “Waiting” Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock (Justin Bieber) Most Performed Australian Work (co-writer: Jerome Farah) Most Performed Alternative Work (co-writer: Jerome Farah) (SOCAN) Favorite Male Artist, /R&B HILLTOP HOODS (APRA) Favorite Album, Soul/R&B – After Hours Songwriter of the Year Favorite Song, Soul/R&B – “Heartless” Most Performed Urban Work – “Leave Me Lonely” (co-writers: Barry Francis, Matthew Lambert, Leigh Ryan BAD BUNNY & Daniel Smith – all APRA) Favorite Male Artist, Latin Favorite Album, Latin – YHLQMDLG & (APRA) Most Performed Australian Work Overseas – BTS “Cheap Thrills” Favorite Duo or Group, Pop/Rock Favorite Social Artist

TOP BRASS

BET AWARDS DORIS DUKE ARTIST AWARD

BEYONCÉ, IVY & ANDREW CYRILLE ...for his prowess at reshaping ’s BET Her Award – “” syntax while engaging with its lineage

DABABY DAYTIME EMMYS Best Male Hip-Hop Artist JASON ALEXANDER Outstanding – “The Bad Guys?” Best Group from Brainwashed by Toons BRIT AWARDS PAUL ANTONELLI, KEN CORDAY & D. BRENT NELSON Outstanding Music Direction & Composition for a Drama (PRS) Series – Days of Our Lives Best New Artist Song of the Year – “” GLENN SLATER Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s, Adult (PRS) or Animated Program – “Waiting in the Wings” Album of the Year – Psychodrama from Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure

BILLIE EILISH International Female Solo Artist PRIMETIME EMMYS

TRENT REZNOR MABEL (PRS) Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Best Female Solo Artist Series, Movie or Special –

STORMZY (PRS) AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO & DANIEL PALLADINO Best Male Solo Artist Outstanding Music Supervision –

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS

DAN + SHAY GAME AUDIO NETWORK GUILD AWARDS Vocal Duo of the Year Highlights...

GREG KURSTIN GORDY HAAB Single of the Year - “The Bones” Music of the Year – Jedi: Fallen Order Best Original Choral Composition – “Cordova’s Theme” OLD DOMINION from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Vocal Group of the Year AUSTIN WINTORY Best Original – “Know Thyself” from Erica Musical Event of the Year - “I Hope You’re Happy Now” Best Interactive Score – Erica

CHARLEY PRIDE (graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop) Lifetime Achievement Award HEINZ AWARD Song of the Year - “The Bones” GABRIELA LENA FRANK …for breaking cultural, gender and disability barriers in

TOP BRASS

IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS BTS (KOMCA) Best Group DAVE (PRS) Best Pop – “On” Best Contemporary Song – “” Best K-Pop – “On”

CALVIN HARRIS & RAG ‘N’ BONE MAN (PRS) THE WEEKND (SOCAN) PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Giant” Video of the Year – “” Best R&B – “Blinding Lights” INFLO (PRS) Best Album – Area (Little Simz) NAACP IMAGE AWARDS (PRS) Songwriter of the Year BEYONCÉ Outstanding Album – Homecoming: The Live Album Outstanding Female Artist Highlights... LATIN GRAMMYS Outstanding Song, Traditional – “Spirit”

Outstanding Song, Contemporary – “” JULIO REYES COPELLO Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration – CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ CARBONELL “Brown Skin Girl” (w/ Blue Ivy & WizKiD) (SGAE) Record of the Year - “Contigo” Outstanding /Compilation Album – : The Gift NATALIA LAFOURCADE Album of the Year - Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 NEA JAZZ MASTERS AWARD Best Alternative Song - “En Cantos” Best Regional Song - “Mi Religión” ROSCOE MITCHELL Honoring living legends who have made exceptional FITO PAEZ contributions to the advancement of jazz Best Pop/Rock Album - La Conquista del Espacio Best Pop/Rock Song - “La Canción de las Bestias” PEABODY AWARDS

MIKE BAHÍA ENTERTAINMENT Best New Artist KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN – Stranger Things DRUM & LACE & IAN HULTQUIST – Dickinson MAURICIO RENGIFO GARY GUNN - David Makes Man Producer of the Year – Watchmen & MIKE TUCCILLO – Ramy MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE (PRS) – Fleabag

ARIANA GRANDE DOCUMENTARIES Song of the Year – “Rain on Me” NATHAN MATTHEW DAVID – Surviving R. Kelly Best Collaboration – “Rain on Me” ENOCKSSON, JOAQUIN GARCIA Best From Home – “Stuck with U” & UNO HELMERSSON (all STIM) - POV: The Distant (w/ Justin Bieber) Barking of Dogs LEONARDO HEIBLUM & JACOBO LIEBERMAN (both SACM) – POV: The Silence of Others Best Rock – “Orphans” TOP BRASS

ALEX SOMERS (PRS) – Independent Lens: Hale County SPHINX MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE This Morning, This Evening CARLOS SIMON ...recognizing extraordinary CHILDREN’S & YOUTH classical Black and Latinx musicians LORENZO CASTELLI WITH THE (graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop) EGGPLANT COLLECTIVE (SOCAN) – Molly of Denali PREMIOS LO NUESTRO Highlights...

TASHA COBBS LEONARD Artist of the Year Artist of the Year Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year Crossover Collaboration of the Year –

“Con Calma” (w/ ) JJ HAIRSTON Remix of the Year – “Soltera (Remix)” Praise and Worship Album of the Year – Miracle Worker (w/ Bad Bunny & Lunay) Single of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow) RONALD HILL Song of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow) Producer of the Year – Long Live Love Urban Song of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow) DESMOND DAVIS, MARSHON LEWIS Urban Male Artist of the Year & ROBERT WOOLRIDGE

BAD BUNNY Song of the Year – “Deliver Me (This Is My )” Album of the Year – Oasis Remix of the Year – “Soltera (Remix)” WOODY GUTHRIE PRIZE (w/ Lunay & Daddy Yankee) Tour of the Year JOAN BAEZ ...in honor of her groundbreaking Urban/Trap Song of the Year – “Callaíta” career and impact on humanitarian causes Video of the Year – “Flor”

SEBASTIÁN YATRA Pop/Rock Artist of the Year Pop/Rock Song of the Year – “Un Año” (w/ ) ALFONSO G. AGUILAR (SGAE) Regional Mexican Collaboration of the Year – “Un Año” Public Choice Award - Klaus

PEDRO CAPÓ & – “CALMA (REMIX)” Pop/Rock Collaboration of the Year Discovery of the Year - The Two Popes

Urban/Pop Song of the Year CYNTHIA ERIVO (PRS) Best Original Song - “Stand Up” from Harriet

PULITZER PRIZE ANA KASRASHVILI

ANTHONY DAVIS SABAM Award for Best Original Composition by a Music – The Central Park Young (graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop)

MICHAEL R. JACKSON (SACEM) Drama – A Strange Loop Lifetime Achievement Award *First Black writer to win a Pulitzer

CHARTED TERRITORY , , Whit Sellers, Group Performance, and netted Ramsey a sec- Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi have been playing ond nom in the Best Country Song category. And music together for a long time, and earned plen- the love rolled in for their radio smash “One Man ty of accolades in the process. But 2020 saw a Band,” co-written with Josh Osborne – the song landslide of honors, awards and distinctions at was ACM Song of the Year and ASCAP Country a scale unimaginable during an unpredictable Song of the Year, won a CMT award for Group year. They were named ACM Group of the Year Video of the Year, and was nominated for the and CMA Vocal Group of the Year, both for the CMA Song of the Year. With a trail of platinum third time. Their hit “” earned hits in their wake, Old Dominion sailed into 2021 the band a GRAMMY for Best Country Duo/ with the wind at their backs. CHARTED TERRITORY ASCAP MEMBERS CRAFTED THE MOST OF 2020

YEAR-END SONGWRITER & PRODUCER CHARTS BAD BUNNY #1 Hot Latin Songwriter #1 Hot 100 Songwriter #1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter AARON DESSNER #1 Hot Rap Songwriter #1 Hot Rock Producer OZ (SOCAN) FINNEAS #1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Producer #1 Hot 100 Producer #1 Hot Rap Producer

DANN HUFF TYSON TRAX #1 Producer #1 Hot R&B Songs Producer

THE WEEKND (SOCAN) #1 Hot R&B Songwriter

ASCAP songwriters in the top 20 of the year-end Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot Country Songwriters charts, or the top 10 of year-end Hot Christian, Hot Dance/Electronic, Hot Gospel, Hot Latin, Hot R&B, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop, Hot Rap and Hot Rock Songwriters charts:

AHMAD ASHAD “” BALSHE (SOCAN) HILLARY LINDSEY STEVE MAC (PRS) JOHNNY D. MARKS JUSTIN BIEBER (STIM) DABABY JOSH OSBORNE DADDY YANKEE DAHEALA (SOCAN) JIMMY ROBBINS DUA LIPA SETHINTHEKITCHEN JONATHAN SINGLETON TONES AND I (APRA) JAHMAL GWIN MATTHEW WEST OSCAR THOMAS HOLTER (STIM) CRAIG WISEMAN JETSONMADE YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN ’s has long been a go-to songwriter for ’s biggest stars, including Bad Bunny, , J Balvin and . 2020 was the year when Jhay emerged as a hitmaking artist in his own right. In February he released Famouz Reloaded, a souped-up version of his 2019 album featuring new songs and with , & and Ozuna. Three months later the music video for “ (Remix)” – Jhay’s massively successful collaboration with J Balvin and Bad Bunny – joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club. And in October, his hypnotic Bad Bunny collab #1 “Dákiti” became the first Spanish-language song to reach #1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US 200 charts simultaneously. With no end in sight for this prolific -songwriter’s creativity, the sky’s the limit for his success. STOP THE PRESSES Amanda Jones’s rise in the world of screen music has been meteoric. Just a few years ago, she was working as an assistant at ’s Remote Control Studios. In 2020, she became the first Black woman to receive an Emmy nomination for original television score, for her work on the Apple TV+ series Home. Her credits piled up last year, with interesting and exciting projects including OWN’s anthology series Cherish the Day, created and produced by Ava DuVernay, and BET’s Twenties, created and written by . And Jones is using her success to lift up others – she is a co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, where she connects producers and studios with underrepresented composers. Through both her own work and her elevation of others, Amanda Jones is changing the landscape of screen music for the better. STOP THE PRESSES ASCAP MEMBERS SINGLED OUT FOR CRITICAL ACCLAIM

TINY DESK CONTEST METACRITIC TOP 40 OF 2020 LINDA DIAZ Aggregates rankings by professional critics “Green Tea Ice Cream” 1. – Fetch the Bolt Cutters 4. – HITMAKERS HONOREES 6. – RTJ4 7. HAIM – Women in Music, Pt. III (SOCAN) 10. DUA LIPA – Future Nostalgia Isolation Salvation Song of the Year – “” 14. – Homegrown LEWIS CAPALDI (PRS) 15. DEFTONES – Ohms Songwriter of the Year 16. FLEET FOXES – Shore CHARLI XCX 17. PORRIDGE RADIO (PRS) – Every Bad Innovator of the Year 18. JARV IS… (PRS) – Beyond the Pale LIL BABY 24. (PRS) – A Celebration of Endings Voice of Impact Award 25. – It Is What It Is MUSTARD 26. (PRS) – Inner Song Producer of the Year 27. – songs and

THE WEEKND (SOCAN) 28. CARIBOU (PRS) – Suddenly Hitmakers Record of the Year – “Blinding Lights” 31. – 34. LIANNE LA HAVAS (PRS) – Lianne La Havas 35. SPARKS – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip 36. CHARLI XCX – how i’m feeling now 39. – Unfollow the Rules ANTHONY DAVIS Acclaimed pianist and composer Anthony Davis has built a career out of writing complex, compelling operas about real-life human rights and civil rights stories. 34 years after he premiered X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X – considered the first contemporary political opera – Davis earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for his latest, The Central Park Five, about the five Black youth wrongly convicted of rape and assault in 1990. Davis’s propulsive score weaves strains of jazz, R&B and hip-hop into a cutting-edge classical framework, and in the words of the Pulitzer jury, “skillfully transforms a notorious example of contemporary injustice into something empathetic and hopeful.” Next up? Operas grappling with 2015 Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

GABRIELA LENA FRANK Named one of the 35 most significant women composers in history by , Gabriela Lena Frank writes colorful classical music imbued with the unique sounds and languages of Latin America. Frank’s compositions reflect her multiracial heritage and kaleidoscopic musical interests, but they also reflect her activist, humanist spirit – traits that underpin her work at the burgeoning Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy in rural Boonville, CA. In 2020 Frank won the 25th anniversary Heinz Award, in recognition of her pioneering work as a composer breaking gender, disability and cultural barriers, and also as a champion of emerging composers from diverse backgrounds. THE G.O.A.T. Since the release of his first mixtapePerfect Timing, hip-hop superhero Lil Baby’s star has continued to rise. His 2018 debut album was certified platinum and subsequent releases climbed the charts and garnered the native a legion of loyal fans. But 2020 saw Lil Baby truly explode and meet the cultural moment. In the wake of the murder of and the protests of summer 2020, he released “The Bigger Picture” – a stirring tribute and rallying cry to the movement. It was nominated for two , and became his biggest chart success so far. Lil Baby’s voice kept ringing out proudly in 2020 with the release of his album My Turn. It was the most-consumed album of 2020, and helped Lil Baby become Global Artist of the Year at the 2020 Awards. Lil Baby truly made a difference in 2020, proving himself a vital voice in the music community, a fierce advocate for the Black community, and a true hip-hop innovator. HONORING THE G.O.A.T. THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME

SONGWRITERS WITH MOST #1 HITS WRITTEN SOLO THE 100 GREATEST DEBUT SINGLES OF ALL TIME

LIONEL RICHIE (8) (PRS) (4) 1. “…Baby One More Time” () (8) (3) Writer: Max Martin (STIM) (7) (3) 2. “I Want You Back” () PAUL McCARTNEY (PRS) (7) (3) Writers: Berry Gordy, Alphonso Mizell, Frederick Perren (7) (3) 3. “Anarchy in the U.K.” (The Sex Pistols) Writers: The Sex Pistols (PRS) NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY 4. “Sucker M.C.’s/It’s Like That” (Run-DMC) INDUCTIONS Writer: Darryl McDaniels 7. “Good Times Bad Times” () PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA – Writers: Led Zeppelin “Whispering” (1920) 9. “Blitzkrieg Bop” (The Ramones) MEMPHIS MINNIE – “Me and My Chauffeur ” (1941) Writers: The Ramones PUCCINI’S Tosca (1953) 12. “” (Lil X) ALLAN SHERMAN – “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” (1963) Writers: Jozzy, Trent Reznor – “” 13. “White Riot” () (written by ) (1968) Writers: The Clash (PRS) FRED ROGERS – Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1973) 15. “Rock Lobster” (The B-52’s) FREDERICK FENNELL AND THE Writers: The B-52s SYMPHONIC WINDS – Holst: Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, 16. “Creep” () Suite No. 2 in F / Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Writers: Radiohead (PRS), Albert Hammond Bach: Fantasia in G (1978) 17. “Player’s Ball” () DR. DRE – The Chronic (1992) Writer: André 3000 – “” (1992) 19. “Dreaming of Me” () MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA – Writer: (PRS) in the Garden (2004) COLIN CURRIE – Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto (2008) NASHVILLE INDUCTEES KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES STEVE EARLE BOBBIE GENTRY JOAN BAEZ SPOONER

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