The Morgan Wallen smash “Last Night” proceedd its dominance of carry outing rights organizations’ awards, as the tune was named song of the year at the 72nd annual BMI Country Awards, held Tuesday night at the org’s headquarters in Nashville. BMI’s most take parted song of the year was co-penned by BMI authorrs John Byron and Charlie Handsome.
Songauthorr of the year honors set up Chase McGill and Zach Bryan in a tie, with each each songauthorr co-writing six of BMI’s most-carry outed songs in the field. Bryan’s half-dozen songs were all tunes he recorded himself: Bryan serves as a authorr behind “Burn, Burn, Burn,” “Dawns,” “Hey Driver,” “I Remember Everyskinnyg,” “Oklahoma Smokeshow” and “Sun to Me.” For his part, McGill co-wrote Morgan Wallen’s “Ain’t That Some,” Luke Bryan’s “But I Got a Beer in My Hand,” Conner Smith’s “Creek Will Rise,” Russell Dickerson’s “God Gave Me a Girl,” Jordan Davis’ “Next Thing You Know” and Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House.”
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. was named beginer of the year, an accolade it picked up by having begining on 34 of BMI’s 50 most-carry outed songs of the year.
The night’s musical carry outances came in salute to BMI Icon award recipient Randy Owen, of the group Alabama. The artists paying Owen tribute were Riley Green, with “My Home’s in Alabama,” Luke Bryan, singing “Feels So Right,” and Blake Shelton, doing “Mountain Music.”
The evening began with one non-Alabama song — a group carry outance by Ella Langley, Lukas Nelson and Aaron Raitere of “With a Little Help from My Frifinishs,” in salute to the country community’s benevolent efforts thrawout the year.
The roll that Wallen’s “Last Night” is on includes having been also named song of the year by ASCAP the night before BMI feted it with its own award of that name. The hit probable didn’t have much competition for either org’s top honor, having been No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 nonconsecutive weeks.
A filled enumerate of the honored songs and authorrs can be set up here.
