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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,
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inspiring, lifting and healing us as only music can.
Here’s a look back at some of our members’ most remarkable
GOLDEN
achievements from 2019 and the past decade - a small sampling of
the milestones met by our global family of music creators. We’ve also
highlighted six ASCAP members from throughout our repertory who
experienced breakout years in 2019.
Congratulations to ASCAP’s chart-topping, mold-breaking
AGE
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 -
incredible year, the pair won 10 Grammys, “All Night Long”
debut single “Ocean Eyes,” 2019 was the year it also set a record for most simultaneously
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/
of them, and produced entirely by FINNEAS) #1 single in the US (it topped the charts in who created an entire sonic universe in their 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”
from The Bold and the Beautiful (w/ George Noriega & Rec808) Highlights…
BERNIE TAUPIN
Best Original Song - Best Urban Fusion/Performance -
THE CAST OF THE BAND’S VISIT “Calma (Remix)” (w/ Farruko) JONATHAN McREYNOLDS
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”
Outstanding Musical Performance - “Answer Me,” Artist of the Year
from Rocketman
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
Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year
PULITZER PRIZE Best Engineered Album - El Mal Querer
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 Urban/Inspirational Single or Performance
Best Musical - Hadestown Best Music Video Short Version -
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 Traditional CD of the Year - One Nation Under God
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA!
& BRANDON ROBERTS Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year
Best Revival of a Musical GARTH BROOKS
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 BILLIE EILISH
JASON MICHAEL WEBB Album of the Year - Girl
“Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal” Hitmaker of the Year
Special Tony Award
from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
OLD DOMINION BTS
Vocal Group of the Year Group of the Year
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO
& DANIEL PALLADINO
LATIN GRAMMYS Highlights…
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:
Best Music Video Long Version - Musical Event of the Year - AMY ALLEN JOZZY
DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS “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 SAM HOLLANDER ANTHONY ROSSOMANDO
Outstanding Music Direction & Composition -
Best Rock Song - “Verdades Afiladas” JONAS JEBERG STARGATE
Days of Our Lives
(w/ German Wiedemer) ILYA BILLY WALSHTHE 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
THE
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI LATIN MUSIC AWARDS
FRÉDÉRIC DEVREESE
Lifetime Achievement Awards Highlights…
ROMEO SANTOS
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
CHART
Tropical Artist of the Year, Solo
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
TOPPERS
& 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”
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 RhapsodyTHE 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
#1 Hot Latin Songwriter MOST-STREAMED ARTISTS
a laid-back collaborative album between Bad Bunny and J Balvin that hit #9 on the mainstream album charts on the
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. “Sunflower” – co-written by Louis Bell & Billy Walsh
ASCAP songwriters in the Top 25 of the year-end 4. “7 Rings” – Ariana Grande - co-written by
Billboard Hot 100 Songwriters chart, and top 5 of Charles “Scootie” Anderson, Tommy Brown, Ariana Grande,
year-end individual genre charts: Oscar Hammerstein, Victoria Monét, Richard Rodgers,
Njomza Vitia
ANTHONY BROWN STEVE MAC 5. “Old Town Road (Remix)” - co-written by Jozzy
CARDI B MAX MARTIN
& Trent Reznor
DABABY JORDAN REYNOLDS
BILLIE EILISH DAN SMITH
MOST-STREAMED ALBUMS
ARIANA GRANDE DAN SMYERS
JAHMAL GWIN ANDREW TAGGART 1. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
SAM HOLLANDER BRENDON URIE Billie Eilish
LIL BABY BILLY WALSH 3. Thank U, Next
Ariana GrandeDABABY
The man with the biggest smile in hip-hop had
a lot to smile about in 2019. After releasing 13
mixtapes in under four years, Charlotte, NC
native DaBaby signed to Interscope in late
January, and dropped his top 10 debut album
A DECADE
Baby on Baby in early March. The album
spawned “Suge,” a trap banger that went
double platinum, and netted DaBaby two
OF ASCAP
Grammy nominations. In June, he snagged
a spot in XXL’s prestigious Freshman Class,
kicking off a slew of high-profile features on
songs by Post Malone, Trippie Redd, Megan
DOMINANCE
Thee Stallion, Chance the Rapper and the
Dreamville collective (Complex called his
verse on the Dreamville track “Under the
Sun” a “defining breakout moment for a new
rap superstar”). Amidst that steady stream of
guest verses, DaBaby found time to record
and release another full-length, Kirk, which
fared even better than his debut, hitting #1 in
its first week of release. When the sun set on
2019, DaBaby’s charismatic flow was on more
Billboard Hot 100 entries (22) than any other
artist that year.A DECADE OF ASCAP DOMINANCE
As the decade came to an end, editorial boards proclaimed ASCAP music as the finest
of the 2010s and beyond.
PITCHFORK:
BEST 200 ALBUMS OF THE 2010s
25 BEST CLASSICAL WORKS
ASCAP ALBUMS IN THE TOP 25
OF THE 21ST CENTURY
3. Beyoncé - Beyoncé
1. Hans Abrahamsen - “Let Me Tell You”
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
6. Solange - A Seat at the Table 2. George Benjamin - “Written on Skin”
7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City 3. Harrison Birtwistle - “The Minotaur”
8. Robyn - Body Talk 4. György Kurtág - “Fin De Partie”
9. D’angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah 5. Thomas Adès - “The Tempest”
11. Grimes - Art Angels 6. Kaija Saariaho - “L’amour De Loin”
HILLARY LINDSEY
14. Lorde - Melodrama
7. Louis Andriessen - “La Commedia”
17. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
8. Jonathan Harvey - “String Quartet No 4”
19. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
21. Beach House - Teen Dream 9. Heiner Goebbels - “Hashirigaki”
Over a 25-year career, Hillary Lindsey has established herself as one of country music’s most 25. Jamie XX - In Colour 11. Gerald Barry - “The Importance of Being Earnest”
12. Unsuk Chin - “Cello Concerto”
successful, versatile hitmakers. In 2019, we were reminded over and over just how good she
14. Pascal Dusapin - “Passion”
is. The same year Lindsey was honored with ASCAP’s Global Impact Award, she co-wrote four THE 100 BEST SONGS OF THE 2010s 15. David Lang - “Little Match Girl Passion”
songs for Miranda Lambert’s #1-selling album Wildcard, including the sassy lead single “It All TOP 10 19. Cassandra Miller - “Duet for Cello and Orchestra”
Comes Out in the Wash,” a Grammy nominee for Best Country Song. Her partnership with Lady 1. “Dancing on My Own” - co-written by Robyn 20. Caroline Shaw - “Partita”
& Patrik Berger 22. Linda Catlin Smith - “Piano Quintet”
Gaga continued to bear fruit, as “Always Remember Us This Way” and “I’ll Never Love Again,”
2. “Alright” - co-written by Kawan Prather 23. James MacMillan - “Stabat Mater”
from A Star Is Born, earned her two more Grammy nods (she would eventually win for “I’ll Never 3. “Rolling in the Deep” - co-written by Paul Epworth 25. Jennifer Walshe - “XXX Live Nude Girls”
4. “Formation” - co-written by Beyoncé & Mike Will
Love Again,” her third career Grammy). The video for Lindsey’s Carrie Underwood single “Cry
6. “Runaway” - co-written by Peter Phillips, Malik Yusef
Pretty,” which Billboard proclaimed as the #1 Best Country Song of 2018, was named Video of 7. “Thank U, Next” - co-written by Charles “Scootie”
Anderson, Tommy Brown, Ariana Grande,
the Year at the 2019 CMT Music Awards. And 17 years after her first chart-topping country song,
Victoria Monét, Njomza Vitia
she added another to her 23-song catalog of #1s: Luke Bryan’s “Knockin’ Boots.” “This radio needs 8. “Follow Your Arrow” - co-written by Brandy Clark
three songs to play/To get me ‘cross town to you,” Bryan sings in the first verse. Chances are, 9. “I Like It” - co-written by Bad Bunny, Cardi B,
Craig Kallman, Mambo Kingz, Klenord “Shaft” Raphael,
Hillary Lindsey wrote them all. Vincent “Invincible” Watson
10. “Hotline Bling” - co-written by Paul “Nineteen85” JefferiesMICHAEL ABELS If Michael Abels’s 2017 score to Get Out
alerted the film world to a bold new composer
talent, his score to Jordan Peele’s 2019
horror masterpiece Us cemented Abels as
an utterly original voice in film music. Abels
drew from his diverse, decades-long musical
HONORING
background in classical music, West African
drumming, choral music and beyond for Us’s
sinister soundscapes, even arranging the hip-
hop classic “I Got 5 on It” for an electronically-
THE
treated string ensemble. For his stunning work
on Us, Abels was named Discovery of the Year
at the World Soundtrack Awards, and earned
an Outstanding Original Score nomination
GREATS
at the inaugural Society of Composers &
Lyricists Awards; The Wrap even crowned Us
as “Score of the Decade.” Abels also found
time in 2019 to score Spike Lee’s sci-fi feature
See You Yesterday. In addition to his scoring
work, Abels continued his post as Director of
Music for New Roads School in Santa Monica;
he also co-founded the Composers Diversity
Collective, an advocacy group aimed at
increasing the visibility of composers of color
in film, game and streaming media.HONORING THE GREATS
ELLEN REID The ASCAP family includes innumerable songwriters and composers who have influenced
In late 2018, composer Ellen Reid became the
generations of listeners. These greats continued to receive accolades in 2019.
first composer to have works commissioned
and performed by all four major LA ensembles ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
- the LA Phil, LA Master Chorale, LA Chamber INDUCTEES
THE CURE
Orchestra and LA Opera - and all within a year’s DEF LEPPARD INDUCTIONS
span. But it was 2019 when her renown went RADIOHEAD
CAB CALLOWAY
THE ZOMBIES
“Minnie The Moocher” (1931)
global. Reid was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
p r i s m, her visionary opera (with libretto by Roxie SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME PABLO CASALS
INDUCTEES Bach: Six Cello Suites (c. 1939)
Perkins) about a woman suffering through the
MISSY ELLIOT STAN FREBERG
psychological effects of a sexual assault. Later in YUSUF/CAT STEVENS Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America,
JACK TEMPCHIN Vol. 1: The Early Years (1961)
the year, the NY Phil commissioned a new piece Contemporary Icon Award
from Reid as part of its Project 19 - the largest JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem (1963)
women-only commissioning initiative in history, NPR: 8 WOMEN WHO INVENTED
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC NINA SIMONE
“Mississippi Goddam” (1964)
amendment’s ratification. The debut recording of BESSIE SMITH
ELLA FITZGERALD CAST OF HAIR
p r i s m came out on Decca Gold in August, and in MARY LOU WILLIAMS Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording (1968)
CELIA CRUZ
the fall, Reid began her tenure as Creative Advisor SISTER ROSETTA THARPE EARTH, WIND & FIRE
and Composer-in-Residence for Los Angeles “September” (1978)
KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES
Chamber Orchestra. All the while, this inveterate SYLVESTER
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (1978)
boundary breaker continued her vital work MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
with the Luna Composition Lab - a mentorship VARIOUS ARTISTS
Schoolhouse Rock! The Box Set (1996)
program for young female-identifying, non-
JAY-Z
binary and gender non-conforming composers, ABDULLAH IBRAHIM The Blueprint (2001)
MARIA SCHNEIDER
co-founded by Reid and fellow ASCAP member BOB DOROUGH
Missy Mazzoli.© 2020 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
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