Platten’s Diamond Award, SESAC Celebrates Artists Marking over 10 million units sold in the United States, singer-songwriter Rachel Platten receives RIAAA’s Diamond Award for “Fight Song” by Sony Music Publishing, joining Beyoncé, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and others as one of only 25 solo female artists to receive the honor.

[L-R: Jon Platt (Chairman/CEO, Sony Music Publishing), Rachel Platten, Dave Bassett at Sony Music Publishing’s celebration of Rachel Platten]

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Celebrating the SESAC Film & Television Composer Awards, this year’s honorees included Laura Karpman (Captain America: Brave New World), Daniel Lopatin (Marty Supreme) and The Newton Brothers. SESAC’s annual Latina Music Awards honored Kapo, Edén Muñoz, and Sony Music Publishing for global chart successes. Details HERE, Latin HERE.

With growing international efforts, the organization recently established the “John Sweeney Stage” at the Sound City Festival in England, and the John Sweeney Impact Prize for promising new artists, in honor of SESAC’s late Vice President of International and cornerstone of UK’s music community.The post Platten’s Diamond Award, SESAC Celebrates Artists first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.