AN ASCAP RECAP

ASCAP has announced the winners of the 2024 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, which include Rhythm & Soul Songwriter of the Year Lil Baby and Voice of the Culture Award recipient USHER. Co-writer Leon Thomas accepted the R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap Song of the Year Award for SZA's “Snooze,” which spent an unprecedented 30 weeks at #1.

Warner Chappell Music was a big winner, walking away with the Rhythm & Soul Publisher of the Year Award for such songs as “Calm Down” (Rema f/Selena Gomez), “Fukumean” (Gunna), “Good Good” (USHER), “Hotel Lobby” (Quavo & Takeoff), “Rich Baby Daddy” (Drake), “Spin About U” and “Rich Flex” (21 Savage & Drake), “What It Is” (Doechii) and “Praise God” (Kanye West, Travis Scott & Baby Keem).

Additional 2024 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Award trophies went to 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Summer Walker, Coco Jones, Smokie Norful and Tye Tribbett, among others.

The ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards recognize the songwriters and publishers of the most-performed songs of the past year.

Click here for the full list of winners while we wallow in our mediocrity.