GEORGE MICHAEL WINS TOP UK AWARD
The 2024 UK Solo Songwriter Award was posthumously won by George Michael for his Wham! song Last Christmas. The song ranked at only 18th overall for total UK streams, downloads, vinyl and CD sales, but analysis of official data and statistics unexpectedly showed that Last Christmas was the highest placed song written by a solo British songwriter. All songs in first 17 places above Last Christmas last year, in terms of total distribution and sales, were either written by non-UK (mostly US) songwriters or by UK songwriting teams. Even highly placed UK performing songwriter artists such as Raye, who was third overall for her single Escapism, relied on co writers for their chart hits. READ MORE HERE...
Butteflies - a song for Kylie Minogue
A song written especially for Kylie Minogue, writen by a team of new up-and-coming songwriters, won the Major Artist Category of the UK Songwriting Contest in 2023. It is featured here the Rising Star section this year. The songwriters collaborated together online to develop a song in the same style as Kylie's recent chart successes. They entered the song, Butterflies, in The UK Songwriting Contest where it won the Songs For Major Artists category in that event. Find out more and listen to the song HERE...
Olympic Games Theme Winner
The UKSC is promoting the Olympic Games Theme Song winner Be Brave, Be Bold. This inspirational song was written by the songwriting team of Matt Glickstein, Karen Mitchell and James Kocian and the song has been released with vocals by Clayton Jones. The UKSC Olympic Theme Song category was held to tie in with the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and the UKSC has made this video to accompany the release and will be promoting this during that 2024 event. READ MORE HERE...
2024 MAJORS AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
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