{"id":29557,"date":"2025-09-18T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:42:08","slug":"ariana-grande-named-songwriter-of-the-year-at-sesac-la-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Named Songwriter of the Year at SESAC LA Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSESAC celebrated Ariana Grande<\/a> as the organization\u2019s songwriter of the year on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy-winning pop star \u2014 who recently announced her first tour<\/a> in seven years in support of her \u201cEternal Sunshine<\/a>\u201d album \u2014 was additionally recognized for the set\u2019s smash hit \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love).\u201d The single became Grande\u2019s seventh song to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, earning her the record for female artist with the most number-one debuts in history.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends\u201d was published by the recipient of the publisher of the year award, Universal Music Group Publishing. The company was also behind multiple award-winning songs from the evening including \u201cThe Emptiness Machine\u201d recorded by Linkin Park and \u201cWe Pray\u201d recorded by Coldplay ft. Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and Tini.<\/p>\n

\n\tSESAC honored numerous songwriters behind the most-performed songs of 2024 across a variety of genres at the W Hotel in Hollywood on Thursday, marking the fourth year the awards took place in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tDez Wright\u00a0and\u00a0The Legendary Traxster\u00a0were each honored with\u00a0producer of the year\u00a0awards, in recognition of their successes as prolific producers, working with major artists including Travis Scott, Future, Beyonc\u00e9, Megan thee Stallion, and more. Additional award-winning writers include\u00a0Jack Harlow, Emily Armstrong, Dahi, Japanese Breakfast, Green Day, Fede Vindver, Sam Tinnesz and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re proud to honor the incredible songwriters and publishers who make our music come alive,\u201d shared Sam Kling, chief creative officer, SESAC Performing Rights. \u201cThese songs are the result of immense dedication and talent, and we\u2019re thrilled to shine a spotlight on the amazing contributions of our SESAC family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKling announced that two members of the creative team,\u00a0James Leach\u00a0and\u00a0John Sweeney, received posthumous legacy awards in recognition of the service and dedication they provided not only to their work at SESAC and the songwriters they represented, but to moving the industry forward.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn hand to celebrate were Kling,\u00a0SESAC President and COO Scott Jungmichel, as well as Senior VP, Head of LA Creative Mario Prins and VP, Creative Services Diana Akin Scarfo. Artist and SESAC songwriter\u00a0Tamara Jade, whose latest single \u201cWerq\u201d was released in July, served as the MC for the evening for the third consecutive year. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SESAC celebrated Ariana Grande as the organization\u2019s songwriter of the year on Thursday night. The Grammy-winning pop star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8420,93,61,60,278,24048],"class_list":["post-29557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ariana-grande","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-sesac-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}