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Last night was a big night for BMI songwriters such as Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, and Carrie Underwood as they took home awards for their songs at the BMI Awards. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert also performed.
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Last week, Taylor Swift was named Songwriter of the Year at the 2010 BMI Awards. Taylor is the youngest to ever take home the award. She also took home her third Song of the Year BMI for her song “You Belong with Me.” However, there was more than just joy running through Taylor who had just sold over 1 MILLION copies of Speak Now; Taylor was also mourning the loss of a dear friend. Take a look at Taylor’s acceptance speech…
Our thoughts and prayers are with Taylor and the friends and family of her dear friend Jeff Lang.
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BMI saluted the songwriters and publishers behind country music’s most-performed songs of the past year last night during the 58th annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville.
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At 20 years old, Taylor Swift became the youngest person ever to win the BMI Country Songwriter of the Year crown. She is followed by Bill Anderson, who won the honor in 1960 at 23, and Johnny Cash, who won in 1956 at 24. Swift earned the award thanks to her self-recorded compositions “Fifteen,” “White Horse” and “You Belong With Me,” as well as “Best Days of Your Life,” recorded by Kellie Pickler.
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“You Belong With Me” also earned Swift her third consecutive BMI Country Song of the Year win, making her the only songwriter ever to win the award three years in a row. In 2008, she became the youngest songwriter ever to win the honor, while earlier this year she became the youngest individual ever to pen the BMI Pop Song of the Year.
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Other award winning songs include:
ALL I ASK FOR ANYMORE
Casey Beathard
Tim James
ALWAYS THE LOVE SONGS
George Ducas
AMERICAN RIDE
Dave Pahanish
Joe West
BAREFOOT AND CRAZY
Rhett Akins
Dallas Davidson
BEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
Taylor Swift
BIG GREEN TRACTOR
Jim Collins
BONFIRE
Tom Botkin
Kevin Denney
Craig Morgan
BOOTS ON
Randy Houser
Brandon Kinney
THE CLIMB
Jon Mabe
CONSIDER ME GONE
Marv Green
COWBOY CASANOVA
Carrie Underwood
DO I
Luke Bryan
Dave Haywood
Charles Kelley
FIFTEEN
Taylor Swift
GETTIN’ YOU HOME (THE BLACK DRESS SONG)
Cory Batten
Kent Blazy
HERE COMES GOODBYE
Chris Sligh
HILLBILLY BONE
Luke Laird
I RUN TO YOU
Tom Douglas
Dave Haywood
Charles Kelley
I WANNA MAKE YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES
Brett Beavers
I’LL JUST HOLD ON
Troy Olsen
Bryan Simpson
I’M ALIVE
Dean Dillon
IT HAPPENS
Kristian Bush
Bobby Pinson
IT’S AMERICA
Angelo
Slanky Dank
KISS A GIRL
Keith Urban
A LITTLE MORE COUNTRY THAN THAT
Wynn Varble
LIVING FOR THE NIGHT
Dean Dillon
Bubba Strait
LOST YOU ANYWAY
Toby Keith
Bobby Pinson
LOVE YOUR LOVE THE MOST
Eric Church
Michael Heeney
NEED YOU NOW
Dave Haywood
Charles Kelley
NOTHIN’ TO DIE FOR
Lee Thomas Miller
ONE IN EVERY CROWD
Ira Dean
Eddie Montgomery
ONLY YOU CAN LOVE ME THIS WAY
Steve McEwan (PRS)
John Reid
PEOPLE ARE CRAZY
Bobby Braddock
Troy Jones
RED LIGHT
Melissa Peirce
RIDE
Michael Davey
Andrew Dorff
Chris Robbins
SHE’S COUNTRY
Danny Myrick
Bridgette Tatum
SIDEWAYS
Jim Beavers
SMALL TOWN USA
Justin Moore
SOUNDS LIKE LIFE TO ME
Phil O’Donnell
Wynn Varble
SOUTHERN VOICE
Bob DiPiero
Tom Douglas
STRANGE
Wendell Mobley
THAT’S HOW COUNTRY BOYS ROLL
Dallas Davidson
TOES
Zac Brown
Wyatt Durrette
John Hopkins
Shawn Mullins
THE TRUTH
Ashley Monroe
WHATEVER IT IS
Zac Brown
Wyatt Durrette
Angelika Music
WHERE I’M FROM
Patrick Davis
WHITE HORSE
Liz Rose
Taylor Swift
WHITE LIAR
Natalie Hemby
Miranda Lambert
WHY DON’T WE JUST DANCE
Jim Beavers
WILD AT HEART
Stephanie Bentley
YOU BELONG WITH ME
Liz Rose
Taylor Swift
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The 57th Annual BMI Country Awards celebrated the genre’s top hit-makers last night in Nashville. In addition to toasting the writers and publishers of the past year’s 50 most-performed country songs from the BMI repertoire, the ceremony honored Kris Kristofferson as a BMI Icon; named Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” Song of the Year, Bobby Pinson Songwriter of the Year, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Publisher of the Year; and saluted Brooks & Dunn with the BMI President’s Award.
The 2009 BMI Country Awards also honored songwriters Jeffrey Steele and Lee Thomas Miller, who both added three songs to the top 50 most-performed list, as well as Toby Keith, Sugarland’s Kristian Bush, Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, Phil O’Donnell, Jim Beavers, Brett Beavers, James Otto, Clint Daniels, and Dallas Davidson, who each contributed two compositions to the year’s top 50.
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