Awards

Adele wins Song Of The Year at BMI London Awards

By | Published on Wednesday 10 October 2012

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US collecting society BMI held its London Awards last night, celebrating the works by European songwriters it represents which have enjoyed particular success on TV and radio in America in the last year. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it was Adele and her frequent collaborator Paul Epworth who took the big prize of the night, with ‘Rolling In The Deep’ being declared Song Of The Year.

Commenting on the awards, BMI boss Del Bryant told CMU: “A BMI songwriting award is a unique and important recognition of a song’s life cycle. Songs are born, and then they journey throughout the world’s marketplace, through traditional broadcasts, digital platforms, local businesses and other industries. BMI tracks and shepherds that journey. As the son of professional songwriters, I understand and admire the passion and pride that our songwriters feel as their work crosses cultures and defines eras, and the essential need to safeguard that work”.

The awards show also celebrates European-penned songs that have passed significant landmarks in terms of airplay in the US in the last year, the most notable being everyone’s favourite stalking song, The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’, which has had a massive eleven million plays on American radio in its lifetime. Which equates to 60 years of constant airplay, apparently.



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