Doja Cat named Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 BMI Pop Music Awards

Doja Cat was named Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 BMI Pop Music Awards on Tuesday, at a private event held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Six of Doja’s songs were highlighted as the most performed songs of 2022, which included ‘Get Into It (Yuh)’, ‘I Like You (A Happier Song)’, ‘Need to Know’, ‘Vegas’, and ‘Woman’.’

Doja has previously won several BMI awards, including Song of the Year in 2021 for ‘Say So’, and Most Performed Song of the Year for ‘Kiss Me More’ in 2022.

The news of Doja’s win comes as she denounced her old albums ‘Hot Pink’ and ‘Planet Her’ in a series of tweets yesterday, calling them “cash grabs” and saying that everyone “fell for them”.

“planet her and hot pink were cash-grabs and yall fell for it,” she tweeted. “now i can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.”

She then confirmed the title of her upcoming rap-centric album: ‘First of All’.

Other winners at the 2023 BMI Pop Music Awards

Khalid received the BMI Champion Award from BMI president and CEO Mike O’Neill, adding to his 18 BMI Award wins.

In 2020 Khalid received BMI’s Pop Songwriter of the Year award, with his song ‘Talk’ named BMI’s R&B/hip-hop song of the year.

Other artists who have been honored with the BMI Champion Award include Mark Ronson, Residente, Sebastian Krys, Keith Urban, and Lee Thomas Miller.

“His meaningful efforts include dedicating the Great Khalid Foundation to positively impacting social change for children, families and communities through the power of music, raising funds in support of the El Paso Community Foundation, and far beyond,” read a statement from BMI.

Sony Music Publishing was named Publisher of the Year, representing 24 of 2022′s most performed songs, including Linkin Park’s ‘Numb’, Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’, Ed Sheeran’s ‘2step’, and Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’.

The Song of the Year Award went to The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber song ‘Stay’ co-written by Cashmere Cat.

What are the BMI Pop Music Awards?

The BMI Pop Music Awards are organized by Broadcast Music, Inc., a music rights management organization that helps to negotiate music license agreements.

The awards show honors the previous year’s most-performed songs on both radio and television in the United States.

“BMI represents the public performance rights in over 20.6 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.3 million songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” reads an official statement.

“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.”