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Taylor Swift won’t want to get rid of it.
The Nashville Songwriters Association International revealed Monday that it will be honoring the country star turned pop icon as “Songwriter-Artist of the Decade.”
Swift, who writes or co-writes all of her songs, has won 11 Grammy Awards and is the only female artist in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year three times. Her additional accolades include three ’10 Songs I Wish I’d Wrote’ awards (2020: ‘Lover’ [written and recorded by: Taylor Swift]; 2017: “Best Man” [written by: Taylor Swift / recorded by: Little Big Town ]; 2015: “Shake it up” [written by: Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift / recorded by: Taylor Swift]).
Keith Urban can’t help but sing his praises.
“A good songwriter can make you see the flowers in a song,” Urban said in a statement. “A great songwriter can make you see and feel them. But, a truly gifted songwriter will make you see, smell, and smell those roses in the window. That’s Taylor. When she sings ‘memorized the crackles in the sol”, I’m here in a house with so many immediate details that belong to me – I’m hooked. In a time when a song can have a dozen authors, the song mentioned above Cornelia Street (one of my all-time favorite Tay songs) is one of many featuring just one Taylor Swift. She’s the real…deal!!!!”
With over 60 #1 songs to her credit, Ashley Gorley will be honored as “Songwriter of the Decade” by NSAI. Gorley has been named NSAI’s Songwriter of the Year five times in the past eight years. He won three “10 songs I wish I had written” awards (2018: “I lived it” [written by: Rhett Akins, Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley, Ben Hayslip / recorded by: Blake Shelton] and “marry me” [written by: Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley, Shane McAnally, Thomas Rhett / recorded by: Thomas Rhett]; 2017: “Dirt on my boots” [written by: Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure, Rhett Akins / recorded by: Jon Pardi]).
“I have so much respect for Ashley Gorley,” Thomas Rhett said in a statement. “His talent as a songwriter is evident, but his work ethic combined with that talent is truly inspiring. He is one of the hardest working and most passionate people in town and truly deserves this honor.
The evening will also pay tribute to the song, songwriter and singer-songwriter of the year 2022, as well as Garth Brooks, who will receive the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award and Jon Platt, president and CEO of Sony Music Publishing, who was shortlisted for the NSAI President’s Keystone Award.
The 5th Annual Nashville Songwriters Awards presented by City National Bank will be held September 20 at the Ryman Auditorium. Performers include Luke Combs, Little Big Town, Jordan Davis, 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.
Winners of the decade awards are determined by their cumulative songwriting success between 2010 and 2019. Points are awarded by calculating the percentage of songwriting credit in a song associated with Nashville and tracking the performance of each song on a weekly basis in the Top 20 of the Billboard Country Airplay Chart, Billboard Pop Songs Chart, Billboard Christian Airplay Chart or Billboard Rock Airplay Chart. For the ‘Songwriter-Artist of the Decade’ award, there is the additional requirement that they must be the recording artist as well as a credited songwriter of the song for points to count.