Nelly wins SOCAN Awards!!

[brumar]

Nelly last night added some more trophies to her award cabinet at the SOCAN Awards.

K-OS among SOCAN winners

K-OS, Sarah Harmer, Nelly Furtado, Diana Krall, Sarah McLachlan, jacksoul, Nickelback and Finger Eleven were among SOCAN Award winners last night during a ceremony at The Carlu in Toronto hosted by R&B singer Jully Black.

K-OS' Crabbuckit and jacksoul's Shady Day won urban music awards, while Harmer's Almost picked up the folk/roots music award.

Furtado's Powerless (Say What You Want) and Try, and McLachlan's Fallen and Stupid were among the pop music award winners.

Diana Krall picked up the Hagood Hardy Jazz Music Award while Finger Eleven's One Thing won the rock music award.

Nickelback won the international achievement trophy and Valdy took home the national achievement award.

Canadian uber-managers Bruce Allen and Same Feldman were given the special achievement award for their contributions to Canada's music industry.

SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, is the Canadian copyright collective for the communication and performance of musical works.

Also, an earlier story:

Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Pretty Lady named Cdn classics by Socan

Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot and Trooper's Pretty Lady were among five oldies added Monday to the list of homegrown classics by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.

Jann Arden's Insensitive, Paul Carrack's Don't Shed A Tear and Nick Gilder's Hot Child In the City rounded out the list of tracks, which passed the 100,000-airplay mark on domestic radio in 2004.

All the songs were written by Canadians.

In addition to marking classics, Socan, which collects and distributes royalty cheques on behalf of songwriters, acknowledged newly written songs which dominated radio last year.

They included Nelly Furtado's Powerless and Try, Sarah McLachlan's Fallen and Stupid, Sarah Harmer's Almost, k-os's Crabbuckit, Finger Eleven's One Thing and Emerson Drive's Waitin' On Me.

The songwriters were to receive trophies at a gala dinner reception on Monday night.

[gardennome78]

hey thats awesome! ....but what are the socan awards haha sorry

[suus]

Originally Posted by gardennome78

hey thats awesome! ....but what are the socan awards haha sorry

well I'm guessing they're something canadian but I've never heard of them either but still it's cool that she won

[Jaz]

yeah it's cool.....but never heard about it too....lol

[Giowq]

Very cool...two 2003 Nelly Songs win an award in the 2005....but...nobody knows SOCAN awards....

[Furtadoboy]

SOCOOL that she won an award again!

[foideus]

congratulation NELLY!

Winners List : http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/about/med...ualWinList.jsp

[lynda]

Awesome!
Congrats Nelly!!

Thanks for posting Bruce!

[nellymany]

Awesome news !!!!
Thanks !!

[Jonas*]

one more award to Miss Nelly Furtado