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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

BMI – Song of the Year Awards, 1981-2024

BMI – Song of the Year:

1981-2024

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was founded in 1939 to represent songwriters in multiple musical genres. They have grown to be the largest music rights organization in the United States, representing 14 million musical works created and owned by over 900,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers.

The BMI Awards got their start in 1952 when the organization launched a pop music award. They have since held awards annually for pop and other genres.

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be an online listing of recipients of the awards. Even the searchable BMI website fails to uncover any complete listings. Here’s the awards assembled as best as possible, dating back to 1981.

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  • 2024: Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us”
  • 2023: Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
  • 2022: The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay”
  • 2021: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • 2020: Halsey “Without Me”

  • 2019: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  • 2018: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
  • 2017: Shawn Mendes “Stitches”
  • 2016: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
  • 2015: John Legend “All of Me”
  • 2014: The Lumineers “Ho Hey”
  • 2013: Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger”
  • 2012: Adele “Rolling in the Deep”
  • 2011: Katy Perry “Firework”
  • 2010: Taylor Swift “Love Story”

  • 2009: Colbie Caillat “Bubbly”
  • 2008: Hinder “Lips of an Angel”
  • 2007: Kelly Clarkson “Because of You”
  • 2006: Maroon 5 “She Will Be Loved”
  • 2005: 3 Doors Down “Here Without You”
  • 2004: Santana with Michelle Branch “The Game of Love”
  • 2003: Nickelback “How You Remind Me”
  • 2002: Matchbox 20 “If You’re Gone”
  • 2001: Faith Hill “Breathe”
  • 2000: Eagle-Eye Cherry “Save Tonight”

  • 1999: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  • 1998: Chumbawamba “Tubthumping”
  • 1997: Celine Dion “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
  • 1996: Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You”
  • 1995: Toni Braxton “Breathe Again”
  • 1994: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
  • 1993: Michael Bolton “When a Man Loves a Woman”
  • 1992: Londonbeat “I’ve Been Thinking About You”
  • 1991: Mariah Carey “Love Takes Time”
  • 1990: Phil Collins “A Groovy Kind of Love”

  • 1989: Steve Winwood “Valerie”
  • 1988: Gregory Abbott “Shake You Down”
  • 1987: Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin “Separate Lives”
  • 1986: Mr. Mister “Broken Wings”
  • 1985: Robert Palmer “Addicted to Love”
  • 1984: Scandal “The Warrior”
  • 1983: The Police “Every Breath You Take”
  • 1982: Sylvia “Nobody”
  • 1981: Dolly Parton “9 to 5”

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First posted 4/6/2019; last updated 2/5/2025.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Billboard: Digital Sales, 2005-present

Billboard’s Biggest Digital Hits:

2005-present

Billboard magazine started its airplay chart on January 22, 2005 to track the biggest hits based on digital sales. This list focuses on the biggest hits on that chart based on weeks at #1. All songs which spent five or more weeks on top are included in this list. Ties are broken by songs’ overall Dave’s Music Database points.

See other chart-based lists here and specific Billboard lists here.

    18 weeks:

  1. BTS “Dynamite” (2020)
    17 weeks:

  2. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
    16 weeks:

  3. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
    13 weeks:

  4. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
  5. The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer” (2016)
  6. BTS “Butter” (2021)
    11 weeks:

  7. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
    10 weeks:

  8. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
  9. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
  10. Flo Rida & T-Pain “Low” (2007)
  11. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” (2013)
  12. Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (2009)
  13. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (2012)
  14. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (5/28/2016)
  15. Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow”
    9 weeks:

  16. Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (2005)
  17. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” (2004)
    8 weeks:

  18. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” (2011)
  19. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
  20. Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass” (2014)
  21. 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop” (2005)
    7 weeks:

  22. Adele “Hello” (2015)
  23. Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again” (2015)
  24. Eminem with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (2010)
  25. Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
  26. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (#1, 2005)
  27. fun. with Janelle Monae “We Are Young” (2012)
  28. Katy Perry with Kanye West “E.T.” (2010)
    6 weeks:

  29. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
  30. LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem” (2011)
  31. Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
  32. Psy “Gangnam Style” (2012)
  33. Drake “God’s Plan” (2018)
  34. Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
  35. Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)
  36. Drake “In My Feelings” (2018)
  37. Flo Rida with Ke$ha “Right Round” (2009)
  38. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)
  39. Halsey “Without Me” (2018)
  40. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles” (2016)
    5 weeks:

  41. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
  42. Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (2011)
  43. Lorde “Royals” (2013)
  44. Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger” (2011)
  45. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback” (2006)
  46. Katy Perry with Snoop Dogg “California Gurls” (2010)
  47. LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It” (2011)
  48. Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse” (2013)
  49. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (2011)
  50. Bruno Mars “Grenade” (2010)
  51. Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” (2007)
  52. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2012)
  53. Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood” (2014)
  54. Lizzo “Truth Hurts” (2017)
  55. Rihanna “Pon De Replay” (2005)
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First posted 9/8/2021.

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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Top 50 Songs of 2016

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2016

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer”
  2. Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance”
  3. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
  4. Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”
  5. Rihanna with Drake “Work”
  6. Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (2016)
  7. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  8. Pinkfong! “Baby Shark”
  9. Twenty One Pilots “Heathens”
  10. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles”

  11. The Chainsmokers with Daya “Don’t Let Me Down”
  12. Beyoncé “Formation”
  13. Calvin Harris & Rihanna “This Is What You Came For”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  14. James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Go”
  15. Bruno Mars “24K Magic”
  16. Shawn Mendes “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back”
  17. Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better”
  18. Zayn “Pillow Talk”
  19. Fifth Harmony with Ty Dolla $ign “Work from Home”
  20. Post Malone with Quavo “Congratulations”

  21. Migos with Lil Uzi Vert “Bad and Boujee”
  22. Major Lazer with Justin Bieber & MØ “Cold Water”
  23. DJ Snake with Justin Bieber “Let Me Love You”
  24. Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj “Side to Side”
  25. Clean Bandit with Sean Paul & Anne-Marie “Rockabye”
  26. Bruno Mars with Cardi B “Finesse”
  27. Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y”
  28. Zayn with Taylor Swift “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
  29. Maroon 5 with Kendrick Lamar “Don’t Wanna Know”
  30. Lizzo “Good As Hell”

  31. Rihanna “Needed Me”
  32. The Lumineers “Ophelia”
  33. Charlie Puth with Selena Gomez “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
  34. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming”
  35. Rag ‘n’ Bone Man “Human”
  36. Saint JHN with Imanbek “Roses”
  37. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker”
  38. D.R.A.M. with Lil Yachty “Broccoli”
  39. Childish Gambino “Redbone”
  40. Gnash with Olivia O’Brien “I Hate U, I Love U”

  41. Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color” (2016)
  42. Dwayne Johnson “You’re Welcome”
  43. Ariana Grande “Into You”
  44. Alice Merton “No Roots”
  45. Little Big Town “Better Man”
  46. Post Malone “I Fall Apart”
  47. Drake with Rihanna “Too Good”
  48. Rihanna “Love on the Brain”
  49. Future with the Weeknd “Low Life”
  50. Hailee Stenfield with Grey & Zedd “Starving”

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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

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Saturday, November 19, 2016

The Chainsmokers spend 12th week at #1 with “Closer”

Closer

The Chainsmokers with Halsey

Writer(s): Andrew Taggart, Ashley Frangipane, Shaun Frank, Frederic Kennett, Isaac Slade, Joe King (see lyrics here)

Released: July 29, 2016

First Charted: August 20, 2016

Peak: 112 US, 110 RR, 111 BA, 113 DG, 112 ST, 8 AC, 14 A40, 14 UK, 113 CN, 19 AU, 12 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 15.0 US, 1.8 UK, 20.7 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 2972.6 video, 2584.27 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

“Closer” was about a couple rekindling their romance. The Chainsmokers’ Andrew Taggart and guest vocalist Halsey each sing their sides of the story before coming together by chance at the end. SF Right after the song’s release, the Chainsmokers tweeted “This song is dedicated to anyone that hooked up with their EX and right after remember all the reasons why they broke up.” SF

Taggart said the “EDM song with a retro style synthesizer” WK was inspired by Blink-182. SF Taggart crafted the beat during a studio session with Freddy Kennett (from EDM duo Louis the Child) and then wrote the words with Shaun Frank – a Canadian DJ, singer, and producer. SF Taggart said Shaun convinced him he could sing – so Taggart sang on a Chainsmokers’ song for the first time. SF

When similiarities were noted between “Closer” and the Fray’s “Over My Head (Cable Car),” the Chainsmokers reached out to the Fray’s Isaac Slade and Joe King. SF King told ABC Radio that “There was no friction or tension…So it’s all good.” SF Slade and King were added to the songwriting credits on September 2, 2016. WK

Billboard’s Matt Medved said the song “sounds like an instant classic” and boasts “an earworm chorus and evocative verses.” WK MTV’s Deepa Lakshmin called it “an upbeat dance-worthy jam that deserves a spot on your summer playlist.” WK

The Chainsmokers became the first duo or group since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (“Thrift Shop”) more than two years earlier to top the Billboard Hot 100. WK It was the longest-running #1 song of the year and also spent more time in the top 5 (26 weeks) than any song in history SF and was only the second song – the other being LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” – to spend 32 weeks in the top ten. WK It also topped the charts in 10 other countries WK and was the first song since “Harlem Shake” by Baauer to top the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs charts. SF In May 2017, it became only the second song to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. WK

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Last updated 7/20/2023.

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