Songwriter and producer Steve Mac, Tom Walker and Stefflon Don were among the big winners tonight (October 23) at the 2018 ASCAP London Music Awards – which honor the PRS For Music writers of the top music of last year. The ceremony took place at One Marylebone with ASCAP vice president membership UK/Europe Simon Greenaway serving as host for the evening.

Steve Mac was the recipient of seven awards including Song Of The Year and Top Digital Song for Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You. Mac won three awards in the Hot 100 Winning Songs category for Strip That Down, Liam Payne’s debut solo single featuring Quavo, What About Us by Pink and the continued success of Rockabye by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie which spent nine weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. Rockabye also won in the EDM Winning Songs category, alongside another single co-written by Mac, Symphony by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson.

Stefflon Don and Tom Walker each received the prestigious ASCAP Vanguard Award, which recognizes the impact of outstanding ASCAP members that are helping to shape the future of music. Both award winners performed at the event, with Stefflon Don opening the ceremony with her single Hurtin’ Me and Tom Walker later delivering Leave A Light On.

Steven "Lenky" Marsden was a double award recipient for Top EDM Song and a Hot 100 Winning Song for co-writing Let Me Love You by DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber.

Elsewhere, Scottish composer and music producer Lorne Balfe won Film Score Of The Year for his work on The Lego Batman Movie. He also won Top Film Score Awards for the science fiction action movie Ghost In The Shell starring Scarlett Johansson and Geostorm with Gerard Butler.

Daniel McGrath and Josh Phillips won Top Television Series for their work on the theme song for the American series Dancing With The Stars.

ASCAP songwriter, president and chairman of the board Paul Williams, chief executive officer Elizabeth Matthews and executive vice president of membership John Titta were on hand for the festivities.

You can see the full list of ASCAP Awards 2018 winners below:

• ASCAP Vanguard Award – Stefflon Don

• ASCAP Vanguard Award – Tom Walker

• ASCAP Song of the Year – Steve Mac (Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran)

• ASCAP Top Digital Song – Steve Mac (Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran)

• ASCAP Top EDM Song – Steven "Lenky" Marsden (Let Me Love You by DJ Snake ft. Justin Bieber)

• ASCAP Film Score of the Year – Lorne Balfe (The Lego Batman Movie)

• ASCAP Hot 100 Winning Songs

• Steven "Lenky" Marsden (Let Me Love You by DJ Snake ft. Justin Bieber)

• Steve Mac (Strip That Down by Liam Payne ft. Quavo)

• Steve Mac (Rockabye by Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

• Steve Mac (What About Us by Pink)

• ASCAP EDM Winning Songs

• Maya Jane Coles & Duke Dumont (Swish Swish by Katy Perry ft. Nicki Minaj)

• Andre Gray, Mikkel Eriksen & Tor Hermansen (Stargate) (Run Up by Major Lazer featuring PartyNextDoor & Nicki Minaj)

• Fabienne Holloway & Tristan Landymore (Get Low by Zedd ft. Liam Payne)

• Jax Jones, Raye & MNEK (You Don’t Know Me by Jax Jones ft. Raye)

• Steve Mac (Symphony by Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larsson)

• Steve Mac (Rockabye by Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

• ASCAP Top Film Awards

• Lorne Balfe (Ghost In The Shell, Geostorm)

• Patrick Doyle (Murder on The Orient Express (2017), The Emoji Movie)

• Dario Marianelli (Darkest Hour)

• Daniel Pemberton (Molly’s Game, All the Money in the World, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)

• ASCAP Top Television Series Award

• Daniel McGrath & Josh Phillips (Dancing With The Stars (ABC))

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