Travis Barker Earns ASCAP Songwriting Award for MGK Music

Congrats are to ensure that Travis Barker, because the Blink-182 drummer and music producer has simply received his first ASCAP Pop Music Award. The track that did it for Barker was Machine Gun Kelly‘s “my ex’s greatest good friend,” which Barker is credited as writing. The track was revealed by Beat Poet Music and BMG.

ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and this week they introduced the winners of their annual awards, celebrating the largest hits and most carried out songs of the previous yr. Pop star Olivia Rodrigo was named through the ceremony because the Songwriter of the Yr, whereas Sony Music Publishing took dwelling the Writer of the Yr honors. Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” was named because the Music of the Yr.

Other than the massive three honors, sure tracks had been singled out for recognition, with the Barker-penned “my ex’s greatest good friend” from Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall album being amongst them. “my ex’s greatest good friend” was the third single from the album, faring nicely in a number of genres. The monitor hit No. 2 on Billboard’s Rock Airplay chart, No. 3 on the Mainstream High 40 chart and was No. 2 on the Scorching Rock and Various Songs Chart. It has reached triple platinum standing as a single within the time since its 2020 launch.

Barker, who produced MGK’s Tickets to My Downfall, most just lately returned to supply and play on Kelly’s newest album, Mainstream Sellout, which arrived simply final month. The drummer acknowledged the distinction by posting about it in his Instagram tales.

Machine Gun Kelly that includes Blackbear, “my ex’s greatest good friend”