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Bacs launches regular award for newcomer hit songwriters.

Music Week

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Up-and-coming UK songwriters are set to gain a higher profile with the launch of a series of awards to honour writers new to chart success.

The British Academy of Composers & Songwriters (Bacs) Is launching the Chart Newcomer Awards, supported by Universal Music Publishing, to recognise writers who have scored their first Top 20 single in the first two months of 2001. The first dinner party-based ceremony will take place at London's Landmark Hotel on April 23 and will then be repeated every eight weeks honouring winners from the previous two months.

Bacs chairman Guy Fletcher says, "This is designed to honour every British writer that gets into the Top 20 for the first time in their career. Up until now there is very ...

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