SONY/ATV TAKES BMI COUNTRY PUBCO OF THE YEAR

Team Sony/ATV whoops it up after being deemed Publisher of the Year at the BMI Country Music Awards in Nashville, the 16th consecutive conferral of said honor. Winners included Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, Chris Young and a promising kid named Taylor Swift, who penned Little Big Town's #1 hit "Better Man."

Seen just before making a dive for SATV Nashville head Troy Tomlinson's last remaining Montecristo are (l-r) Sony/ATV's Terry Wakefield, Mark Abramowitz, Stephen Denninger, Dane Schmidt and Josh Van Valkenburg, BMI boss Mike O'Neill, pubco overlord Marty Bandier, Tomlinson, Co-Prez U.S. Danny Strick, Sony/ATV's Hannah Williams and Tom Luteran and BMI Nashville VP Creative Jody Williams.