Phil Wickham was named lyricist of the year at the 2024 BMI Christian Honors, which were held Tuesday (June 18) at BMI’s Nashville’s office. BMI’s AVP of innovative, Nashville, Leslie Roberts facilitated the greeting just service.
Wickham, 40, took part recorded as a hard copy four of the current year’s honor winning melodies — “Blessed Until the end of time,” “Song of Paradise,” “Then Christ Came” and “This Is Our God.” Wickham has gotten three Grammy selections in the beyond two years, including one for his collection I Accept at the Feb. 4 service. He has amassed 11 top 10 hits on Announcement’s Hot Christian Melodies graph, including “Place of the Ruler,” which came to No. 1 out of 2022.
Wickham played out an acoustic interpretation of his tune “Psalm of Paradise” at the occasion.
“Appreciation” was named the 2024 melody of the year. Composed by BMI lyricists Dante Bowe and Ben Hastings (APRA) and recorded by Brandon Lake, the melody logged 28 weeks at No. 1 on Hot Blue grass Melodies. The track, highlighted on Lake’s collection, Place of Marvels, got selections from the 2023 GMA Bird Grants for tune of the year and love recorded melody of the year.
Fundamental Music Distributing brought back home the honor for distributer of the year. Fundamental is liable for 12 of the 25 most-performed tunes of the year — “Foundation,” “God Is in This Story,” “Heart of God,” “Sacred For eternity,” “I Express gratitude toward God,” “I’m So Honored,” “Impeccably Cherished,” “Same God,” “Say thanks to God I Do,” “Then, at that point, Christ Came,” “This Is Our God” and “Who I’m.”
Moreover, the service named 21 first-time victors for their job recorded as a hard copy the main 25 most-performed Christian melodies of the earlier year. They included pop forces to be reckoned with P!nk and Jeff Bhasker, who co-composed the Lauren Daigle hit “Say thanks to God I Do,” which beat Hot Christian Tunes for quite a long time.
Three first-time champs were twofold victors on the evening — Jonathan Jay (“Dread Isn’t My Future” and “Lay on Us”) and Jacob Plants and Levi Factories (“God Is Genuine” and “Never Not God”).
The total champs rundown can be viewed as here.
Wickham wasn’t the night’s just entertainer. Anne Wilson, 22, offered a stripped-down form of her hit, “Solid,” joined by BMI’s 2023 musician of the year, Jeff Pardo. At any rate, newbie Charly Beathard made her BMI execution debut with “Glory be.”
