GEORGE MICHAEL WINS TOP UK AWARD
The 2024 UK Solo Songwriter Award was posthumously won by George Michael for his Wham! song Last Christmas. The song ranked at only 18th overall for total UK streams, downloads, vinyl and CD sales, but analysis of official data and statistics unexpectedly showed that Last Christmas was the highest placed song written by a solo British songwriter. All songs in first 17 places above Last Christmas last year, in terms of total distribution and sales, were either written by non-UK (mostly US) songwriters or by UK songwriting teams. Even highly placed UK performing songwriter artists such as Raye, who was third overall for her single Escapism, relied on co writers for their chart hits. READ MORE...
Rising Stars Award for Kylie Minogue song
A song written especially for Kylie Minogue by a team of new up-and-coming songwriters wins our New Talent Rising Star Award this year. The songwriters collaborated together online to develop a song in the same style as Kylie's recent chart successes. They entered the song, Butterflies, in The UK Songwriting Contest where it won the Songs For Major Artists category in that event.
Find out more and listen to the song here...
Find out more and listen to the song here...
2024 AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
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