Little Big Town on BMI's Influence on Their Careers at the 2013 BMI Country Awards

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Country's finest came together at Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Nashville office on November 5, 2013, to celebrate the songwriters and publishers of the most-performed country songs of the past year. The oldest awards ceremony to salute the genre's hit-makers, the 61st annual event honored the prolific songwriting career of Dean Dillon by naming him a BMI Icon for his enduring musical contributions. Additionally, the ceremony crowned Rodney Clawson Country Songwriter of the Year; the Hunter Hayes smash "Wanted," Song of the Year; and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville, Publisher of the Year. View the full list of winners at http://www.bmi.com/genres/country.


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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 BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year.

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