John Lydon Honored as BMI Icon at 0 BMI London Awards

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI ),the global leader in music rights management, tonight presented the BMI Icon Award to music legend John Lydon at the 2013 BMI London Awards. Music industry guests filled Londons Dorchester Hotel to celebrate the U.K., European and Asian songwriters, producers and publishers of the most-performed songs on United States radio and television in the past year.

John Lydon receives the BMI Icon Award from BMI President Del Bryant at the 2013 BMI London Awards. Photo by Mark Allan

John Lydon (PRS) was named BMI Icon because of his unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers and joins a list of past honorees including Queen, Ray Davies, Steve Winwood, Van Morrison, Donovan, Don Black and Bryan Ferry, among others.

BMI presented Swedens J rgen Elofsson (STIM) and U.S. writing partner Ali Tamposi (BMI) with the Song of the Year Award (The Robert S. Musel Award) for penning the global hit Stronger (What Doesnt Kill You), performed by Kelly Clarkson. This award is given to the most-performed song in the BMI catalogue on U.S. radio and television over the past twelve months. Perfect Storm Music Group (STIM) and Universal Music Publishing (STIM) published the song.

The Dance Award was presented to Dutch songwriter Giorgio Tuinfort (BUMA) for the David Guetta-performed worldwide smash Titanium. Sony/ATV Music Publishing (PRS) and Talpa Music (BUMA) published the million-selling song, which reached No. 1 on the U.K. charts in 2012 and was listed among the Top 10 in over 12 countries. Giorgio Tuinfort was also acknowledged with the Pop Awards for Titanium and two other David Guetta hits, I Can Only Imagine and Turn Me On.

BMI's Brandon Bakshi; Guy Henderson of Sony/ATV; a-ha's Magne Furuholmen and Morten Harket, winners of the Million-Air Certificate for 4 Millions Performances with BMI's Phil Graham at the 2013 BMI London Awards. Photo by Mark Allan

Throughout the night, BMI honored many British songwriters and co-writers of the most-performed songs on U.S. radio and television. A-ha was presented with a BMI Million-Air Award to honor the four million combined radio performances of their hit song, Take On Me. Pop Awards were presented to Ellie Goulding (PRS) for her acclaimed hit song Lights and Snow Patrol for Called Out In The Dark, from their Fallen Empires album. Other honorees included Ed Sheeran (PRS) for The A-Team, Adele (PRS) for Rumour Has It and Skyfall, Example (PRS) for penning the Wanteds pop hit Chasing the Sun, Wayne Hector (PRS) for the Wanteds No. 1 single Glad You Came, Jimbo Barry (PRS/IMRO) for Hall Of Fame, performed by the Script feat. will.i.am, Jamie Scott (PRS) for writing the song Free performed by Graffiti6, and Mark Hadfield (PRS) for Ne-Yos Let Me Love You.

Also saluted were composers of the most-watched and highest-grossing television programs and films, along with the legendary songwriters behind classics that have generated more than three million U.S. radio and television performances. For a complete list of 2013 BMI London Awards winners, visit http://www.bmi.com/london.

For a complete list of 2013 winners, please see the list below or visit, http://www.BMI.com.

About BMI

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI ) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in more than 8.5 million musical works created and owned by more than 600,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMIs repertoire, from chart-toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit http://www.bmi.com, follow us on Twitter @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music Inc.s Facebook page.

3 BMI London Awards

Tuesday, October 15

SONG OF THE YEAR

The Robert S. Musel Award

Stronger (What Doesnt Kill You)

J rgen Elofsson (STIM)

Ali Tamposi (BMI)

David Gamson*

Greg Kurstin*

Perfect Storm Music Group (STIM)

Universal Music Publishing (STIM)

DANCE AWARD

Titanium

Afrojack (BUMA)

Sia (APRA)

Giorgio Tuinfort (BUMA)

David Guetta (SACEM)*

Afrojack Publishing (BUMA)

Piano Songs (BUMA)

Sony/ATV Music Publishing (PRS)

Talpa Music (BUMA)

*Share not licensed by BMI

ICON

John Lydon

2013 LONDON POP SONG AWARDS

50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE

Amund Bj rklund (PRS)

Espen Lind (PRS)

Sony/ATV Music Publishing (PRS)

Stellar Songs Limited (PRS)

Train

A WARRIORS CALL

Michael Poulsen (KODA)

M. P. Publishing APS (KODA)

Sony/ATV Music Publishing (PRS)

Volbeat

BACK IN TIME

Mickey Baker (SACEM)

Bo Didley

Sylvia Robinson

Marc Kinchen

Armando Pitbull Perez

Urales DJ Buddha Vargas

Pitbull

BEAUTY AND A BEAT

Zedd (GEMA)

Nicki Minaj

Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj

CALLED OUT IN THE DARK

Nathan Connolly (PRS)

Garret Lee (PRS)

Gary Lightbody (PRS)

Jonny Quinn (PRS)

Tom Simpson (PRS)

Paul Wilson (PRS)

Big Life Music Ltd. (PRS)

Universal Music Publishing (PRS)

Snow Patrol

CHASING THE SUN

Example (PRS)

Universal Music Publishing (PRS)

The Wanted

DARK SIDE

Alex Geringas (GEMA)

Busbee

BMG Rights Management GmbH (GEMA)

Yoga & Music HBT (GEMA)

Kelly Clarkson

DONT WAKE ME UP

Alessandro Alle Benassi (SIAE)

Marco Benny Benassi (SIAE)

Chris Brown

Ryan Buendia

Michael McHenry

Chris Brown

DONT YOU WORRY CHILD

Axwell (STI

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