The Ivors Academy has announced it has expanded the nominations for the PRS for Music Most Performed Work Award at The Ivors 2020 from three to five songs.
Higher Love written by Will Jennings and Steve Winwood and performed by Kygo x Whitney Houston and Someone You Loved written by Thomas Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Peter Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn and Sam Roman and performed by Lewis Capaldi, have been added to the nominations for this year’s award.
The Nominations for PRS for Music Most Performed Work 2019 are:
Dancing with a Stranger
Written by Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Performed by Sam Smith and Normani
Published in the UK by EMI Music Publishing, Downtown Music Publishing, Stellar Songs – EMI Music Publishing and Naughty Words – Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Giant
Written by Calvin Harris, Jamie Hartman, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man and Troy Miller
Performed by Calvin Harris and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man
Published in the UK by EMI Music Publishing, Reservoir Reverb Music, Warner Chappell Music and Bucks Music Group
Higher Love
Written by Will Jennings and Steve Winwood
Performed by Kygo x Whitney Houston
Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing and Kobalt Music Services Ltd obo F.S. Music Ltd
Hold Me While You Wait
Written by Lewis Capaldi, Jamie N Commons and Jamie Hartman
Performed by Lewis Capaldi
Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing and Reservoir Reverb Music
Someone You Loved
Written by Thomas Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Peter Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn and Sam Roman
Performed by Lewis Capaldi
Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd and Sony/ATV Music Publishing
The expansion follows the identification of an administrative error in the listing of the qualifying works by PRS for Music.
A spokesperson for PRS for Music said: “We identified an inadvertent human error in listing the works which are eligible for the Most Performed Work 2019. This error has now been fully rectified. We would sincerely like to apologise to everyone involved.”
The Ivors Academy congratulates everyone nominated.
The winners of The Ivors with Apple Music will be announced by Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 on Wednesday 2nd September from 11am BST: http://apple.co/AM1
