The 26th annual contest to find the best un-recorded song and lyrics just closed October 31.The contest is held every year by ...

The GRAMMYS have just changed the game, at least in relation to what songs can be nominated for awards. Before now, a song that featured a sample or an interpolation of another song would not be ...

Props to Carole King, Alanis Morissette, Cynthia Weil and more. By Paul Grein Amy Allen made history at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 2), becoming the first woman to win for songwriter ...

As is the case each year, the Academy has made a few subtle tweaks to the Oscars rulebook. In the original song category, the executive committee may recommend a fourth songwriter to receive awards ...

This essay was originally published in the NPR Music newsletter; subscribe here. Are you ready to hate-watch the Academy Awards? In our time of memeable, marketable outrage, dunking on Hollywood's ...

What I'm about to write is objectively true and I dare anyone to try to challenge me on it: The 70th Academy Awards boasted the strongest Best Original Song category in the history of the Academy ...

The midterm elections are over, but the contest for the year's best country songs is just around the corner at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards. The two categories — song of the year and ...