Taylor Swift and Ashley Gorley will be special winners at the upcoming Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) Nashville Songwriter Awards.
Swift will be named Songwriter of the Decade, while Gorley will be named Songwriter of the Decade at the event, which will be held September 20 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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Winners of the decade awards are determined by their cumulative songwriting successes during the designated years. Gorley and Swift are honored for their songwriting accolades from 2010-2019, and points are calculated based on the percentage of songwriting credit in a Nashville-related song, based on each song’s performance on a weekly basis in the top 20 of Billboard Distribution table by country, Billboard Pop Songs Chart, Billboard Christian Airplay board or Billboard Rock Airplay Chart. For the Songwriter of the Honor Decade, the writer must also be the performer of a song for points to count.
Previous songwriters and artists of the decade are Toby Keith (2000-09) and Vince Gill (1990-99). Swift has already been named NSAI’s Songwriter of the Year seven times. She also earned three of NSAI’s “10 Songs I Wish I’d Written” honors for “Lover” (2020), “Better Man” (2017), and “Shake It Off” (2015).
Gorley has won NSAI Songwriter of the Year five times in the past eight years and has already won nine NSAI awards, including 2008 Song of the Year for “You ‘re Gonna Miss This”, co-written with Lee Thomas Miller. and recorded by Trace Adkins. Gorley also earned three “10 Songs I Wish I’d Written” honors, for “I Lived It” (2018), “Marry Me” (2018) and “Dirt on My Boots” (2017).
This year’s Nashville Songwriter Awards will also honor Garth Brooks with the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award, and Sony Music Publishing Chairman and CEO Jon Platt with the NSAI Chairman’s Keystone Award.
Additionally, the night’s lineup of artists has been bolstered with the addition of Jordan Davis, Little Big Town, Luke Combs, Parmalee and Alana Springsteen. These artists will join previously announced artists Pat Alger, Tony Arata, Babyface, Kent Blazy, Jacob Davis, GAYLE, HARDY, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins, Matt Jenkins, Matt McGinn, Thomas Rhett, Matt Rogers, Jenn Schott, Nathan Spicer and Matthew West.
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