Derek George, Lee Thomas Miller Receive MusicRow No. 1 Challenge Coins

Songwriters Derek George and Lee Thomas Miller accepted their first MusicRow No. 1 Challenge Coins at Warner/Chappell Publishing on Friday morning (Aug. 12).

Since January 2014, every artist and songwriter who achieves a No. 1 song on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart receives the coin. Nearly 500 coins have been earned since that time.

George earned one of the very first coins (No. 35) with “Drink To That All Night,” which topped the MusicRow chart in March 2014. The song was recorded by Jerrod Niemann and written with Lance Miller and Brad and Brett Warren.

Lee Thomas Miller landed his first coin following “Perfect Storm,” recorded by his co-writer Brad Paisley. The song rose to No. 1 in November 2014. His second coin arrived with “Crushin’ It,” another Paisley hit. Written by Miller, Paisley and Kelley Lovelace, that song topped the MusicRow chart in May 2015. Miller is also the Board President of Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).