According to rttnews.com, the National Songwriters Association International has recently revealed that Taylor Swift and Ashley Gorley will both be their Decade honorees. Taylor Swift will be honored as the Songwriter Artist of the Decade, while Gorley will be honored as the Songwriter of the Decade. The fifth annual Nashville Songwriter Awards will be held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 20th. Performers that will be taking the stage will include, Jordan Davis, Little Big Town, Luke Combs, Parmalee, and Alana Springsteen amongst other previously announced performers. According to other well respected artists such as Keith Urban, “A great songwriter can have you see and feel them. But, a truly gifted songwriter’s songwriter will have you see, feel and smell those roses in the window. That’s Taylor.” Winners of the award are determined through their songwriting success between 2010 and 2019, where points were given through calculating the percentage of songwriting credit in a Nashville associated song and then tracking each track’s performance on a week to week basis. The songs were tracked through their Top 20 of the Billboard Country Airplay Chart, Billboard Pop Songs Chart, Billboard Christian Airplay Chart or Billboard Rock Airplay Chart.
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