Benson Boone, Taylor Swift takes the top awards

Benson Boone, Taylor Swift and Teddy Swims became the BMI Pop Awards 2025, which on Tuesday (May 13th) at Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California Mike O'NeillBMI President & CEO; Barbara CananeVP from worldwide creative; Samantha CoxVP from Creative, NY; And Tracie lostVp.

Boone was awarded the BMI Champion Award by O'Neill, who praised his “unlimited talent and his creativity”. The previous recipients include Peso Pluma, Sza, Jonathan McReynolds, Khalid, Mark Ronson, Resident, Sebastian Krys, Keith Urban and Lee Thomas Miller.

After Boone received the award, BMI, his team, his family and the songwriter thanked them in the room and said: “This is not my award. This is part of the work on this project. For the songwriter, producer, my mother and my father.

Boone also paid tribute to his coker and collaborator Jack LafrantzShare: “If you are a songwriter or produce or have something to do with the creation process of music, you understand how incredible it is when you find someone with whom you really like to work and with Mr. Jack Lafrantz a special thank you to Mr. Jack Lafrantz. Room.”

Boone then entered the stage to have supported an intimate three-song performance of piano. He started with “Slow it down”, followed by “drunk in my head” and “beautiful things”.

In addition to his BMI champion Honor, Boone received two BMI Pop Awards for “Beautiful Things” and “Slow It Down” with co-author Lafrantz. The backflipper singer-songwriter received its first BMI pop price in 2023 for “Ghost Town”.

Swift was appointed BMI -Pop songwriter of the year, which increases its collection of BMI prices to astonishing 72 -including the BMI President Award in 2009 and the BMI Taylor Swift Award in 2016.

This was the second year in a row that Swift was appointed pop songwriter of the year. With seven of the most songs of the previous year, she wrote down: “Not accused me”, “Down Bad”, “Weugh Tight”, “I can do it with a broken heart,” is it over now? “

BMI's pop song of the year went to “Lose Control”, which was written and performed by Teddy Swims with the BMI-Co authors Julian Bunetta, Marco “notorious” Rodriguez and Mikky Ekko. The Smash hit spent a record week of 60 not consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 1 in March 2024.

The Universal Music Publishing Group was appointed publisher of the year because he represented 28 of the most performed songs of the previous year, including “Agora Hills” by Doja Cat, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter and “Houdini” by Eminem.

During the entire ceremony, the 50 pop songs of the previous year were also awarded in the United States. BMI welcomed 61 first pop winners, including J. Cole for “All My Life” by Lil Durk, Jesse Fink; Peter Finn for “Stargazing” by Myles Smith; DJO for “end of the beginning”; and Nevin Sastry for “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by ShabooZey. This was also the first BMI-Pop Prize for Country Supersstar Morgan Wallen for “I had help”, which was written with Charlie Handsome and other BMI-Pop pop winners Hoskins, Ernest and Chandler Paul Walters.

A complete list of award winners 2024 can be found on the BMI website.