Two Awards for Miley Cyrus's Flowers

 
The songwriting team behind the huge hit Flowers - Miley Cyrus and co-songwriters Michael Pollack and Gregory "Aldae" Hein - win two awards this year. They are awarded top International Songwriting Team, and they also win the UK overall number one position in the Top Ten Songwriters of the Year.  Flowers was the biggest song of the year in the UK spending ten weeks at the top number one position.

Flowers wins these awards by being the most streamed and downloaded song of 2023 with 198 million combined audio and video streams in the UK alone. It was the most-streamed music video and the year’s most-downloaded track in the UK with 91,000 UK downloads.

Michael Pollack

Gregory “Aldae” Hein

The song is taken from Miley’s chart-topping studio album Endless Summer Vacation. It grew out of a songwriting exercise  based around the word "Flowers" that took place while Miley Cyrus and co-writers Michael Pollack and Gregory “Aldae” Hein were working on songs for the album. According to Michael Pollack, in an interview with Billboard Magazine, the song started life as a break up anthem but it morphed into a strong "independent roar" when his co-writers suggested a lyric change. “I remember singing the tagline with the lyric "But I could never love me like you can,’ and Miley and Greg wanted to flip the script and say, ‘Yeah, I can love me better than you can.’ Once we had the tagline established, the rest of the lyric came rather quickly.”

The initial demo version of the song was a bare and stripped-back ballad, with only Cyrus singing and Pollack playing the Rhodes piano. It evolved into an uptempo song and its final version the track was produced by Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon.