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Dr. Luke named 2009 songwriter of year

ASCAP honours Jason Mraz and Katy Perry

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  • Published: 00:00 April 25, 2010
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  • Lukasz "Dr Luke" Gottwald received the Songwriter of the Year award and Katy Perry received two awards for her songs Hot N Cold and Waking Up In Vegas.
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Lukasz "Dr Luke" Gottwald and Jason Mraz are tops in song writing.

Gottwald was named songwriter of the year and Mraz received song of the year honours on Wednesday at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' 27th annual Pop Music Awards.

The awards recognise the writers and publishers of ASCAP's most performed songs of the year.

Gottwald wrote five of the top hits of 2009, including Katy Perry's Hot N Cold, Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA and Flo Rida's Right Round.

Mraz's song, I'm Yours, holds the record for the most weeks spent on Billboard's Hot 100 chart: 76 and counting.

The honours for publisher of the year went to EMI Music Publishing, which had 15 award-winning songs in 2009.

Patti Smith received the organisation's Founders Award. ASCAP president and chairman Paul Williams called Smith "a songwriter, poet, trailblazer and rock icon whose creative genius and rock 'n' roll spirit will continue to inspire generations to come".

The Killers were presented with the Vanguard Award, which recognises genres that help shape the future of American music.

Perry was double delighted as she received two awards, for Hot N Cold and Waking Up In Vegas.

Other songs honoured during the private dinner ceremony at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel include the Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' Empire State of Mind and Beyoncé's Single Ladies.

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