Big Machine Music Celebrates 2025 Accolades
Big Machine Music Songwriters & Staff. Photo: Courtesy of Big Machine Music
Big Machine Music recently celebrated their 2025 accolades, which included industry awards, new RIAA certifications, GRAMMY nominations and more.
The independent publisher took home 2025 AIMP Nashville Publisher of the Year, earned Mediabase and Billboard’s No. 1 Most Played Song of the Year with “High Road” (Koe Wetzel, Jessie Murph – co-written by Laura Veltz), SESAC’s Song of the Year and CMA Song of the Year nominee “Am I Okay?” (Megan Moroney – co-written by Jessie Jo Dillion), and AIMP Nashville Song of the Year “The Painter” (Cody Johnson – co-written by Benjy Davis).
“To say I am proud of all our songwriters and team is an understatement,” said Mike Molinar, President of BMM. “On behalf of myself and the BMM team, it is a privilege to represent such world class songwriters and to be a part of helping their songs make such a tremendous impact.”
Veltz and Dillon garnered two of the five nominations for GRAMMY Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical for 2026. Dillon is nominated for the third consecutive year, and Veltz is nominated for the second time after being nominated in 2023. The company’s songwriters have also earned awards this year for ACM Songwriter of the Year, AIMP Songwriter of the Year, MusicRow Female Songwriter of the Year, CMA Triple Play (Jessie Jo Dillon), NSAI Songs I Wish I’d Written (Daniel Ross, Jessie Jo Dillon), ASCAP Most-Performed Country Songs of the Year (George Birge, Matt Dragstrem) and BMI Most-Performed Songs of the Year (Jessie Jo Dillon, Geoff Warburton, Laura Veltz, Daniel Ross, Justin Moore).
Boasting 13 of Country Aircheck’s Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2025, Big Machine Music also achieved five Airplay No. 1 songs, bringing their total to 65 No. 1 hits. Additionally, they added 36 new RIAA Platinum and Multi-Platinum certifications to their overall tally this year, with “She Got the Best of Me” (Luke Combs) and “Heartless” (Diplo feat. Morgan Wallen) reaching Diamond certification status. With this addition, Big Machine Music now holds 6 of the current all-time Diamond-certified country songs.
Sync placement also played into the publisher’s big year, including placements for Uber Eats x March Madness (“INDUSTRY BABY” – Nick Lee), Uber x Game Day (“INDUSTRY BABY” – Nick Lee), Kelsea Ballerini x SoFi (“Baggage” – Jessie Jo Dillon) and Jackson Dean x T-Mobile Friday Night Lights (“Turn On The Lights” – Jackson Dean & Jessie Jo Dillon). Additionally, tracks from songwriters were featured in hit TV shows including The White Lotus, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Nobody Wants This, Countdown and Tulsa King.
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