EMI Music Publishing songwriters win at the BMI Pop Awards

Company picks up Publisher of the Year title, as Hinder’s Lips Of An Angel wins Song of the Year

New York, NY. – With 14 award songs and the highest percentage of copyright ownership among the year’s top 50 most performed songs, EMI Music Publishing claimed the top spot as Publisher of the Year at last night’s BMI Pop Awards in Los Angeles. Other EMI winning writers included Beyonce, Sean Combs, Pharrell Williams as well as multi-award winners Fergie, Three Days Grace and Pink.

The prestigious Song of the Year prize was picked up by rock band Hinder and fellow EMI Music Publishing writer and producer Brian Howes, for Lips Of An Angel. The song generated the most airplay of any tune on BMI’s most-performed pop song list during the award period, and also claimed Internet Song of the Year as the most performed song on the web during the award period. Hinder also picked up another top 50 most performed songs award for Better Than Me.

EMI Music Publishing Chairman and CEO Roger Faxon says, "Once again EMI Music Publishing songwriters have demonstrated their unrivalled creativity in the competitive world of pop. It’s a real honor to win the Publisher of the Year title, but it’s all thanks to the talented and creative writers that we are privileged enough to work with.”

The following list notes EMI Music Publishing writers only for this year’s winning songs:

Animal I Have Become – written by EMI Music Publishing’s Gavin Brown, Adam Gontier, Brad Walst, Neil Sanderson (performed by Three Days Grace)

Better Than Me – written by EMI Music Publishing’s Lloyd Garvey, Ross Hanson, Mark King, Michael Rodden, Austin Winkler and Brian Howes (performed by Hinder)

Break It Off – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Sean Combs, Sean Paul Henriques and Rihanna (performed by Rihanna)

Glamorous – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Stacy Ferguson and Elvis Williams (performed by Fergie)

Hurt – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Mark Ronson (performed by Christina Aguilera)

Irreplaceable – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Beyonce Knowles, Tor Erik Hermansen, Espen Lind and Amund Bjorklund (performed by Beyonce)

Last Night – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Sean Combs, Jack Knight, Mario Mendell Winans (performed by Keyshia Cole)

Lips of Angel – written by EMI Music Publishing’s Lloyd Garvey, Ross Hanson, Mark King, Michael Rodden, Austin Winkler and Brian Howes (performed by Hinder)

Money Maker – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Pharrell Williams (performed by Ludacris featuring Pharrell Williams)

Nothing Left To Lose – written by EMI Music Publishing’s Mat Kearney

Pain – written by EMI Music Publishing’s Gavin Brown, Adam Gontier, Brad Walst, Neil Sanderson (performed by Three Days Grace)

The Riddle – written by EMI Music Publishing’s John Ondrasik (performed by Five For Fighting)

U + Ur Hand – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Pink (performed by Pink)

Who Knew – co-written by EMI Music Publishing’s Pink (performed by Pink)

EMI Music Publishing’s 1.3 million copyrights include some of the best-known songs ever written, such as New York New York, You’ve Got A Friend, The James Bond Theme, Lady Marmalade, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Always On My Mind, Over The Rainbow, I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Singin’ In the Rain. Its current hit-making writers and producers include Arctic Monkeys, Beyoncé, James Blunt, Alan Jackson, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Pink, Usher, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Amy Winehouse.