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October 2, 2001
News, Urban, Latin, Pop, BMI Urban Awards
BMI Urban Award Winners Announced
BMI has announced the winners of its 2001 Urban Awards. The presentation, scheduled for October 3 in Miami, has been postponed. A new date will be announced.
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Click here for the Billboard #1 R&B/Hip Hop Songs
In addition to the song awards, BMI also named the 2000-2001 Top Producers Awards and Billboard, the music trade magazine, announced the names of the top BMI-affiliated writers on the R&B/Hip Hop charts.
“Maria Maria,” co-written by Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis and Carlos Santana, and recorded by Santana featuring the Product G&B, was named Song of the Year. The hit song was included on Santana’s multiple-platinum, multiple-Grammy award winning CD, Supernatural, and is published by EMI-Blackwood Music, Inc., Stellabella Music and Te Bass Music, Inc.
Producer/songwriter Pharrell Williams was named Songwriter of the Year with three songs on the most performed list including “Got Your Money” (co-written by Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and recorded by ODB with Kelis), “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)” (co-written by Deric Angelettie, Jay-Z, Todd “Too Short” Shaw and Kit Walker, and recorded by Jay-Z), and “Shake Ya Ass” (recorded by Mystikal).
Other multiple award-winning songwriters included Duplessis, Jay-Z, Fred Jerkins and Rodney Jerkins with two awards each.
EMI Music Publishing was named Urban Publisher of the Year with the largest percentage of ownership in award-winning songs. EMI was also named Publisher of the Year at the 2001 BMI Pop Awards, bringing to eight the total number of top Publisher honors awarded to EMI since 1989.
Pharrell Williams was also named one of the Top BMI-affiliated Producers along with Duplessis, Eminem, Mannie Fresh, Irv Gotti, Hi-Tek, R. Kelly, Poke, Rockwilder and Mario Winans.
Billboard chose the occasion of the Urban Awards to honor the BMI writers of the songs that topped the R&B/Hip-Hop charts during the past year. R. Kelly was a multiple winner with “Fiesta” (recorded by Kelly featuring Jay-Z) and “I Wish” (written and recorded by Kelly), as was Williams with “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)” and “Danger (Been So Long)” (recorded by Mystikal featuring Nivea).
BMI annually honors the songwriters and music publishers of the most performed songs on American radio in the pop, country, Latin and urban music genres.
In this story: Eminem, Irv Gotti, Hi-Tek, Rodney Jerkins, R. Kelly, Rockwilder, Carlos Santana, Pharrell Williams, Mario Winans
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