For the record tenth time, Ashley Gorley won ASCAP Country Music Songwriter of the Year

At the 61st ASCAP Country Music Awards, Ashley Gorley was voted ASCAP Country Music Songwriter of the Year. The Twelve Thirty Club in Nashville hosted an invitation-only celebration on Monday night honoring the publishers and songwriters of the 50 most-performed ASCAP compositions in country music over the previous year.

Gorley's record was extended by being awarded ASCAP Country Music Songwriter of the Year for the tenth time.

Ten of ASCAP's most-performed country songs of the previous year, including You Proof, Last Night, Everything I Love, One Thing at a Time, and Thinkin' Bout Me, were written by 46-year-old Gorley. Of them, five were recorded by Morgan Wallen.


Gorley has co-written the ASCAP Country Song of the Year three times already. Alongside the winning publishers, Round Hill Songs and Sony Music Publishing, he accepted the medal for "You Proof." After debuting at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, the single became the first to dominate Billboard's Country Airplay chart for ten weeks.

Though he hasn't yet taken home a trophy from either awards ceremony, Gorley has garnered five CMA nominations for song of the year and five Grammy nods in composition categories. Four Grammy nominations for Best Country Song and one for Best Rock Song have been extended to him.