{"id":240564,"date":"2025-09-22T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=240564"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:36:54","slug":"hipgnosis-sponsors-songwriter-of-the-year-category-at-mbuk-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/hipgnosis-sponsors-songwriter-of-the-year-category-at-mbuk-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipgnosis sponsors Songwriter of the Year category at MBUK Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hipgnosis has been confirmed as sponsor of the prestigious Songwriter of the Year Award at this year&#8217;s MBUK Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbizawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Business UK Awards<\/a>, presented by <em><strong>MBW <\/strong><\/em>in association with <strong>YouTube<\/strong>, will take place on the evening of Tuesday, November 4, at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London.<\/p>\n<p>It will recognize the best examples of music industry success and talent support in the UK business over the past year.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__tweeny hidden-xs hidden-ms hidden-sm\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"992 1200 1440\" data-name=\"628x90 Sponsor banner #5 (992+1200+1440)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_628\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_628\"><\/div>      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__banner mb-advert__banner--inline hidden-xs hidden-sm hidden-md hidden-lg\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"480\" data-name=\"468x60 Sponsor banner #5 (480)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_468\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_468\"><\/div>      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__mobile mb-advert__mobile--inline hidden-ms hidden-md hidden-lg\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"320 768\" data-name=\"300x50 Sponsor banner #5 (320+768)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_300\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_300\"><\/div>      <\/div>      \n<p><strong>Hipgnosis<\/strong> founder <strong>Merck Mercuriadis<\/strong> said: \u201cI have said it many times before but as a great songwriter once said, \u2018It bears repeating\u2019: without the songwriter there <em>is<\/em> no music business.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;ALL YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE WOULD BE OUT OF WORK IF IT WASn&#8217;t FOR THE INCOMPARABLE WORK OF SPECIAL SONGWRITERS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;All you wonderful people working at record labels, publishers, promoters, DSPs, merch companies<em> et al<\/em> would all be out of work if it wasn\u2019t for the incomparable work of special songwriters so it\u2019s a pleasure to once again support the MBUK Awards and the Songwriter Of The Year category.\u201d<\/p>\n      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__spu\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-name=\"300x250 Sponsor MPU #1\" data-params=\"dfp_spu1\" id=\"dfp_spu1\"><\/div>      <\/div>      \n<p>Other categories will celebrate achievement in fields including songwriting, production, A&amp;R, legal, artist management, music publishing, and recorded music.<\/p>\n<p>A clutch of extra-special moments will return, including the <strong>International Executive Of The Year<\/strong> prize, recognizing a non-British executive who has gone above and beyond for UK &amp; Irish music in the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__spu\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-name=\"300x250 Sponsor MPU #2\" data-params=\"dfp_spu2\" id=\"dfp_spu2\"><\/div>      <\/div>      \n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Sir George Martin Award<\/strong>\u00a0will celebrate an individual who has not only achieved global success in music, but also fostered a rare level of respect and friendship in the artist\/songwriter community.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists for this year&#8217;s awards will be announced later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term event supporter returns as part of the industry&#8217;s most enjoyable night of the year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240577,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240564\/revisions\/240577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}