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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.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

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”

Resources and Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Other Genre/Category Song Lists”
BMI Awards
BMI Song of the Year Awards: Country
BMI Song of the Year Awards: R&B

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

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Digital Dream Door: Songs of the Year (1920-2024)

Digital Dream Door:

Songs of the year, 1920-2024

Digital Dream Door offers multiple best-of music lists, including song-of-the-year lists from 1940 to present. Here are the best songs from each year:

Check out other “songs of the year” lists here.

2024: Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us”
2023: Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
2022: Harry Styles “As It Was”
2021: Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
2020: Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion “WAP”
2019: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
2018: Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow”
2017: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
2016: The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy”
2015: Adele “Hello”
2014: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
2013: Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
2012: Psy “Gangnam Style”
2011: Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know”
2010: Adele “Rolling in the Deep”
2009: Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”
2008: Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
2007: M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
2006: Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
2005: Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.”
2004: Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
2003: OutKast “Hey Ya!”
2002: Eminem “Lose Yourself”
2001: The Strokes “Last Nite”
2000: Radiohead “Idioteque”
1999: Eminem “My Name Is…”
1998: Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
1997: The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony”
1996: Fugees “Killing Me Softly”
1995: Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise”
1994: TLC “Waterfalls”
1993: Beck “Loser”
1992: Dr. Dre with Snoop Doggy Dogg “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang”
1991: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
1990: Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”
1989: Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
1988: Tracy Chapman “Fast Car”
1987: Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
1986: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way”
1985: Dire Straits “Money for Nothing”
1984: Prince “When Doves Cry”
1983: The Police “Every Breath You Take”
1982: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”
1981: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll”
1980: Blondie “Call Me”
1979: Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II”
1978: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive”
1977: Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”
1976: Eagles “Hotel California”
1975: Bruce Springsteen…Born to Run
1974: Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry”
1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird”
1972: Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
1971: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”
1970: Derek & the Dominos “Layla”
1969: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love”
1968: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
1967: Aretha Franklin “Respect”
1966: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”
1965: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1964: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”
1963: The Kingsmen “Louie Louie”
1962: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions”
1961: Ben E. King “Stand by Me”
1960: The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
1959: Ray Charles “What’d I Say”
1958: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
1957: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”
1956: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog”
1955: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”
1954: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock”
1953: The Drifters “Money Honey”
1952: Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
1951: The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man”
1950: Fats Domino “The Fat Man”
1949: Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
1948: Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin’ Tonight”
1947: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday”
1946: Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”
1945: Louis Jordan “Caldonia”
1944: The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love”
1943: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama”
1942: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas”
1941: Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
1940: Artie Shaw “Stardust”
1939: Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
1938: Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)”
1937: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
1936: Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)”
1935: Bing Crosby “Silent Night”
1934: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two”
1933: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)”
1932: Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing”
1931: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)”
1930: Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Body and Soul”
1929: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
1928: Louis Armstrong “West End Blues”
1927: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven”
1926: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird”
1925: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song”
1924: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”
1923: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues”
1922: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)”
1921: Paul Whiteman “My Mammy”
1920: Al Jolson “Swanee”

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Year’ lists”
Digital Dream Door

First posted 4/6/2019; last updated 12/31/2025.

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” debuted at #1

Not Like Us

Kendrick Lamar

Writer(s): Sean Momberger, Ray Charles, Kendrick Duckworth (see lyrics here)

Released: May 5, 2024

First Charted: May 18, 2024

Peak: 1³ BB, 1¹ DG, 1⁶ ST, 1²² RB, 1² UK, 1¹ CN, 1² AU, 19 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.6 UK, 1.56 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 688.80 video, 1530.76 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Rapper Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in 1987 in Compton, California. He released his first album, Section 80, in 2011 but didn’t really take off until his sophomore effort, Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City in 2012. The album peaked at #2 and was certified three times platinum. Five #1 albums followed from 2015 to 2022. He first reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2015 as a featured artist on the remix of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” He ascended to the top on his own in 2017 with “Humble” and, in 2024, reached #1 a third time as a featured artist on Future & Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”

Lamar’s guest verse on “Like That” was a diss of rappers Drake and J. Cole in response to their 2023 song “First Person Shooter.” While Kendrick and Drake denied conflict between them for years, there is speculation that their feud goes back as far as 2013 when Lamar dissed Drake and other rappers on Big Sean’s “Control.” Lamar claimed it was meant in friendly competition.

After “Like That,” Drake responded with “Push Ups,’ “Taylor Made Freestyle,” and “Family Matters.” Lamar came back with “Euphoria,” 6:16 in LA,” and “Meet the Grahams,” a song which accused Drake of pedophilia and sexual misconduct. Less than 24 hours later, Lamar also dropped “Not Like Us,” which echoed similar themes while also challenging Drake’s cultural identity. ^WK The song also compared Drake t a slave owner, accusing him of exploiting Atlanta rappers like Future and Lil Baby for street credibility and cash. ^SF Critics hailed it “as one of the greatest diss tracks in history.” ^WK

“Not Like Us” was produced by Mustard, who’d previously reached a career best of #5 with Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up” in 2018. ^SF He sampled “I Believe to My Soul,” a 1968 cover by saxophonist Monk Higgins of a 1961 song by Ray Charles. ^WK “Not Like Us” became Lamar’s fourth trip to the pinnacle of the Billboard Hot 100 and became the longest-running #1 song in the history of the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with 21 weeks on top. ^WK It was nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year. It was the most played song in the world on Spotify in 2024. ^SF

Resources:

^SF Songfacts
^WK Wikipedia

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