MUSIC. MORE THAN EVER.

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MUSIC.MORE THAN EVER.

ASCAP MUSICWAS 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

live 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 songwriters,

composers and publishers we represent.

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When global pop star Dua Lipa released her highly-anticipated sophomore album Future Nostalgia on March 27 of 2020, the world was in the process of plunging into the new reality of COVID-19. Pre-lockdown, the London native had already locked in GRAMMYs, Brit Awards, the ASCAP Vanguard Award and an ocean of critical praise. But Future Nostalgia 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 disco hit “Don’t Start Now,” her highest-charting song 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 Studio 2054, a stunning tribute to New York’s iconic club Studio 54 featuring superstar guests including Bad Bunny, Elton John, FKA Twigs, J Balvin and Kylie Minogue. To close out the year, Dua picked up a massive six GRAMMY nominations.

TOP BRASS ASCAP STARS HONORED WITH MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS OLD DOMINION

Group of the YearSong of the Year – “One Man Band” (w/ Josh Osborne) DAN + SHAY

Duo of the Year CAYLEE HAMMACK

Fooled Around and Fell in Love HILLARY LINDSEY

Songwriter of the Year TENILLE TOWNES

New Female Artist of the Year

AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER

Collaboration of the Year – “10,000 Hours”Favorite Song, Country – “10,000 Hours”Favorite Duo or Group, Country (Dan + Shay)Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock (Justin Bieber) THE WEEKND (SOCAN)

Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&BFavorite Album, Soul/R&B – After HoursFavorite Song, Soul/R&B – “Heartless” BAD BUNNY

Favorite Male Artist, LatinFavorite Album, Latin – YHLQMDLG BTS

Favorite Duo or Group, Pop/RockFavorite Social Artist

BECKY G

Favorite Female Artist, Latin CARDI B

Favorite Song, Rap/Hip-Hop – “WAP” DUA LIPA

Favorite Song, Pop/Rock – “Don’t Start Now”

ANNIE AWARDS DAN LEVY (SACEM)

Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature – I Lost My Body

APRA MUSIC AWARDS Highlights... TONES AND I (APRA)

Song of the Year – “Dance Monkey”Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year KIAN (APRA) – “Waiting”Most Performed Australian Work (co-writer: Jerome Farah)Most Performed Alternative Work (co-writer: Jerome Farah) HILLTOP HOODS (APRA)

Songwriter of the YearMost Performed Urban Work – “Leave Me Lonely” (co-writers: Barry Francis, Matthew Lambert, Leigh Ryan & Daniel Smith – all APRA) GREG KURSTIN & SIA (APRA)

Most Performed Australian Work Overseas – “Cheap Thrills”

BET AWARDS BEYONCÉ, BLUE IVY & WIZKID

BET Her Award – “Brown Skin Girl” DABABY

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist MIGOS

Best Group

BRIT AWARDS LEWIS CAPALDI (PRS)

Best New ArtistSong of the Year – “Someone You Loved” DAVE (PRS)

Album of the Year – Psychodrama BILLIE EILISH

International Female Solo Artist MABEL (PRS)

Best Female Solo Artist STORMZY (PRS)

Best Male Solo Artist

COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS DAN + SHAY

Vocal Duo of the Year GREG KURSTIN

Single of the Year - “The Bones” OLD DOMINION

Vocal Group of the Year CARLY PEARCE

Musical Event of the Year - “I Hope You’re Happy Now” CHARLEY PRIDE

Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award JIMMY ROBBINS

Song of the Year - “The Bones”

DORIS DUKE ARTIST AWARDANDREW CYRILLE ...for his prowess at reshaping jazz’s rhythmic syntax while engaging with its lineage DAYTIME EMMYSJASON ALEXANDER

Outstanding Original Song – “The Bad Guys?” from Brainwashed by Toons

PAUL ANTONELLI, KEN CORDAY & D. BRENT NELSON

Outstanding Music Direction & Composition for a Drama Series – Days of Our Lives

GLENN SLATER

Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult or Animated Program – “Waiting in the Wings” from Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure

PRIMETIME EMMYS TRENT REZNOR

Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special – Watchmen

AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO & DANIEL PALLADINO

Outstanding Music Supervision – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel GAME AUDIO NETWORK GUILD AWARDS Highlights... GORDY HAAB

Music of the Year – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderBest Original Choral Composition – “Cordova’s Theme” from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order AUSTIN WINTORY

Best Original Instrumental – “Know Thyself” from EricaBest Interactive Score – Erica(graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop) HEINZ AWARDGABRIELA LENA FRANK …for breaking cultural, gender and disability barriers in classical music

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IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS DAVE (PRS)

Best Contemporary Song – “Black” CALVIN HARRIS & RAG ‘N’ BONE MAN (PRS)

PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Giant” INFLO (PRS)

Best Album – Grey Area (Little Simz) STEVE MAC (PRS)

Songwriter of the Year

LATIN GRAMMYS Highlights... JULIO REYES COPELLO

CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ CARBONELL

ALEJANDRO SANZ (SGAE)

Record of the Year - “Contigo” NATALIA LAFOURCADE

Album of the Year - Un Canto por México, Vol. 1Best Alternative Song - “En Cantos”Best Regional Song - “Mi Religión” FITO PAEZ

Best Pop/Rock Album - La Conquista del EspacioBest Pop/Rock Song - “La Canción de las Bestias” MIKE BAHÍA

Best New Artist MAURICIO RENGIFO

Producer of the Year

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS ARIANA GRANDE

Song of the Year – “Rain on Me”Best Collaboration – “Rain on Me”Best Music Video From Home – “Stuck with U” (w/ Justin Bieber) COLDPLAY

Best Rock – “Orphans”

BTS (KOMCA)

Best GroupBest Pop – “On”Best K-Pop – “On” THE WEEKND (SOCAN)

Video of the Year – “Blinding Lights”Best R&B – “Blinding Lights”

NAACP IMAGE AWARDS BEYONCÉ

Outstanding Album – Homecoming: The Live AlbumOutstanding Female ArtistOutstanding Song, Traditional – “Spirit”Outstanding Song, Contemporary – “Before I Let Go”Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration – “Brown Skin Girl” (w/ Blue Ivy & WizKiD)Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album – The Lion King: The Gift

NEA JAZZ MASTERS AWARDROSCOE MITCHELL

Honoring living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz

PEABODY AWARDS ENTERTAINMENT

KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN – Stranger ThingsDRUM & LACE & IAN HULTQUIST – DickinsonGARY GUNN - David Makes ManTRENT REZNOR – WatchmenDAN ROMER & MIKE TUCCILLO – RamyISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE (PRS) – Fleabag DOCUMENTARIES

NATHAN MATTHEW DAVID – Surviving R. KellyERIK ENOCKSSON, JOAQUIN GARCIA

& UNO HELMERSSON (all STIM) - POV: The Distant Barking of DogsLEONARDO HEIBLUM & JACOBO LIEBERMAN (both SACM) – POV: The Silence of Others

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ALEX SOMERS (PRS) – Independent Lens: Hale County This Morning, This Evening CHILDREN’S & YOUTH

LORENZO CASTELLI WITH THE

EGGPLANT COLLECTIVE (SOCAN) – Molly of Denali

PREMIOS LO NUESTRO Highlights...

DADDY YANKEE

Artist of the YearCrossover Collaboration of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow)Remix of the Year – “Soltera (Remix)” (w/ Bad Bunny & Lunay)Single of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow)Song of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow)Urban Song of the Year – “Con Calma” (w/ Snow)Urban Male Artist of the Year BAD BUNNY

Album of the Year – OasisRemix of the Year – “Soltera (Remix)” (w/ Lunay & Daddy Yankee)Tour of the YearUrban/Trap Song of the Year – “Callaíta”Video of the Year – “Flor” SEBASTIÁN YATRA

Pop/Rock Artist of the YearPop/Rock Song of the Year – “Un Año” (w/ Reik)Regional Mexican Collaboration of the Year – “Un Año” PEDRO CAPÓ & FARRUKO – “CALMA (REMIX)”

Pop/Rock Collaboration of the YearUrban/Pop Song of the Year

PULITZER PRIZE ANTHONY DAVIS

Music – The Central Park Five MICHAEL R. JACKSON

Drama – A Strange Loop*First Black musical theatre writer to win a Pulitzer

SPHINX MEDAL OF EXCELLENCECARLOS SIMON ...recognizing extraordinary classical Black and Latinx musicians(graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop)

STELLAR AWARDS TASHA COBBS LEONARD

Artist of the YearContemporary Female Vocalist of the Year JJ HAIRSTON

Praise and Worship Album of the Year – Miracle Worker RONALD HILL

Producer of the Year – Long Live Love DESMOND DAVIS, MARSHON LEWIS

& ROBERT WOOLRIDGE

Song of the Year – “Deliver Me (This Is My Exodus)”

WOODY GUTHRIE PRIZE

JOAN BAEZ ...in honor of her groundbreaking career and impact on humanitarian causes

WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS ALFONSO G. AGUILAR (SGAE)

Public Choice Award - Klaus BRYCE DESSNER

Discovery of the Year - The Two Popes CYNTHIA ERIVO (PRS)

Best Original Song - “Stand Up” from Harriet ANA KASRASHVILI

SABAM Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer (graduate of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop)

GABRIEL YARED (SACEM)

Lifetime Achievement Award

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CHARTED TERRITORY

Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi have been playing music together for a long time, and earned plen-ty of accolades in the process. But 2020 saw a landslide of honors, awards and distinctions at a scale unimaginable during an unpredictable year. They were named ACM Group of the Year and CMA Vocal Group of the Year, both for the third time. Their hit “Some People Do” earned the band a GRAMMY for Best Country Duo/

Group Performance, and netted Ramsey a sec-ond nom in the Best Country Song category. And the love rolled in for their radio smash “One Man Band,” co-written with Josh Osborne – the song was ACM Song of the Year and ASCAP Country Song of the Year, won a CMT award for Group Video of the Year, and was nominated for the CMA Song of the Year. With a trail of platinum hits in their wake, Old Dominion sailed into 2021 with the wind at their backs.

BAD BUNNY

#1 Hot Latin Songwriter AARON DESSNER

#1 Hot Rock Songs Producer FINNEAS

#1 Hot 100 Producer DANN HUFF

#1 Hot Country Songs Producer

LIL BABY

#1 Hot 100 Songwriter#1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter#1 Hot Rap Songwriter OZ (SOCAN)

#1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Producer#1 Hot Rap Producer TYSON TRAX

#1 Hot R&B Songs Producer THE WEEKND (SOCAN)

#1 Hot R&B Songwriter

CHARTED TERRITORYASCAP MEMBERS CRAFTED THE MOST POPULAR MUSIC OF 2020

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 “BELLY” BALSHE (SOCAN)

TRAVIS BARKER

LOUIS BELL

JUSTIN BIEBER

DABABY

DADDY YANKEE

DAHEALA (SOCAN)

DUA LIPA

BILLIE EILISH

ASHLEY GORLEY

JAHMAL GWIN

OSCAR THOMAS HOLTER (STIM)

JETSONMADE

HILLARY LINDSEY

STEVE MAC (PRS)

JOHNNY D. MARKS

MAX MARTIN (STIM)

JOSH OSBORNE

POO BEAR

JIMMY ROBBINS

SETHINTHEKITCHEN

JONATHAN SINGLETON

TONES AND I (APRA)

MATTHEW WEST

CRAIG WISEMAN

YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN

YEAR-END SONGWRITER & PRODUCER CHARTS

Puerto Rico’s Jhay Cortez has long been

a go-to songwriter for reggaeton’s biggest

stars, including Bad Bunny, Natti Natasha,

J Balvin and Tainy. 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 collabs

with Karol G, Wisin & Yandel and Ozuna.

Three months later the music video for “No

Me Conoce (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 singer-songwriter’s

creativity, the sky’s the limit for his success.

STOPTHE 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 Hans

Zimmer’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

Lena Waithe. 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.

TINY DESK CONTESTLINDA DIAZ

“Green Tea Ice Cream”

HITMAKERS HONOREES

JENNA ANDREWS (SOCAN)

Isolation Salvation Song of the Year – “Supalonely”

LEWIS CAPALDI (PRS)

Songwriter of the Year

CHARLI XCX

Innovator of the Year

LIL BABY

Voice of Impact Award

MUSTARD

Producer of the Year

THE WEEKND (SOCAN)

Hitmakers Record of the Year – “Blinding Lights”

METACRITIC TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2020Aggregates rankings by professional critics

1. FIONA APPLE – Fetch the Bolt Cutters

4. PHOEBE BRIDGERS – Punisher

6. RUN THE JEWELS – RTJ4

7. HAIM – Women in Music, Pt. III

10. DUA LIPA – Future Nostalgia

14. NEIL YOUNG – Homegrown

15. DEFTONES – Ohms

16. FLEET FOXES – Shore

17. PORRIDGE RADIO (PRS) – Every Bad

18. JARV IS… (PRS) – Beyond the Pale

24. BIFFY CLYRO (PRS) – A Celebration of Endings

25. THUNDERCAT – It Is What It Is

26. KELLY LEE OWENS (PRS) – Inner Song

27. ADRIANNE LENKER – songs and instrumentals

28. CARIBOU (PRS) – Suddenly

31. HAYLEY WILLIAMS – Petals for Armor

34. LIANNE LA HAVAS (PRS) – Lianne La Havas

35. SPARKS – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

36. CHARLI XCX – how i’m feeling now

39. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – Unfollow the Rules

STOP THE PRESSESASCAP MEMBERS SINGLED OUT FOR CRITICAL ACCLAIM

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.

Named one of the 35 most significant women composers in

history by The Washington Post, Gabriela Lena Frank writes

colorful classical music often 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.

ANTHONY DAVIS

GABRIELA LENA FRANK

THE G.O.A.T.

Since the release of his first mixtape Perfect Timing,

hip-hop superhero Lil Baby’s star has continued

to rise. His 2018 debut album Harder Than Ever

was certified platinum and subsequent releases

climbed the charts and garnered the Atlanta

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 George Floyd and the

protests of summer 2020, he released “The Bigger

Picture” – a stirring tribute and rallying cry to the

Black Lives Matter movement. It was nominated

for two GRAMMY Awards, 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 Apple Music 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.

SONGWRITERS WITH MOST #1 HITS WRITTEN SOLO

LIONEL RICHIE (8)DIANE WARREN (8)GEORGE MICHAEL (7)PAUL McCARTNEY (PRS) (7)STEVIE WONDER (7)

PHIL COLLINS (PRS) (4)JOHN DENVER (3)BILLY JOEL (3)RICHARD MARX (3)MAURICE STARR (3)

NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY INDUCTIONS PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA –

“Whispering” (1920)MEMPHIS MINNIE – “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” (1941)PUCCINI’S Tosca (1953)ALLAN SHERMAN – “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” (1963)GLEN CAMPBELL – “Wichita Lineman” (written by Jimmy Webb) (1968)FRED ROGERS – Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1973)FREDERICK FENNELL AND THE CLEVELAND

SYMPHONIC WINDS – Holst: Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, Suite No. 2 in F / Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Bach: Fantasia in G (1978)DR. DRE – The Chronic (1992)WHITNEY HOUSTON – “I Will Always Love You” (1992)MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA – Concert in the Garden (2004)COLIN CURRIE – Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto (2008)

KENNEDY CENTER HONOREESJOAN BAEZ

GARTH BROOKS

THE 100 GREATEST DEBUT SINGLES OF ALL TIME 1. “…Baby One More Time” (Britney Spears) Writer: Max Martin (STIM)

2. “I Want You Back” (The Jackson 5) Writers: Berry Gordy, Alphonso Mizell, Frederick Perren3. “Anarchy in the U.K.” (The Sex Pistols) Writers: The Sex Pistols (PRS)

4. “Sucker M.C.’s/It’s Like That” (Run-DMC) Writer: Darryl McDaniels7. “Good Times Bad Times” (Led Zeppelin) Writers: Led Zeppelin9. “Blitzkrieg Bop” (The Ramones) Writers: The Ramones12. “Old Town Road” (Lil Nas X) Writers: Jozzy, Trent Reznor13. “White Riot” (The Clash) Writers: The Clash (PRS)

15. “Rock Lobster” (The B-52’s) Writers: The B-52s16. “Creep” (Radiohead) Writers: Radiohead (PRS), Albert Hammond17. “Player’s Ball” (Outkast) Writer: André 300019. “Dreaming of Me” (Depeche Mode) Writer: Vince Clarke (PRS)

NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEESSTEVE EARLE

BOBBIE GENTRY

BRETT JAMES

SPOONER OLDHAM

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