Malone will receive the Hal David Starlight Award

The Songwriters Hall of Fame will honor Post Malone with the 2023 Hal David Starlight Award during the 52nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner slated for Thursday, June 15th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

The Hal David Starlight Award, created in 2004, was named in honor of SHOF Chairman Emeritus Hal David, for his longtime support of young songwriters. Award recipients are gifted young songwriters who are making a significant impact in the music industry with their original songs. Post Malone, a Universal Music Publishing Group writer, joins the distinguished company of Lil Nas X, Halsey, Sara Bareilles, Ed Sheeran, Nick Jonas, Nate Ruess, Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, Taylor Swift, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo, Drake, Benny Blanco, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Rob Thomas, and John Rzeznik.

“Over the last few years I have had the pleasure of watching Posty become one of the biggest artists in the world and he’s done it by writing phenomenal songs,” SHOF Chairman Nile Rodgers shares. “Way before Post Malone was a superstar, he was a great songwriter, and this is his first step into the Songwriters Hall of Fame!”

An 8x Diamond-certified Grammy Award-nominated phenomenon, Dallas, TX artist Post Malone regularly rewrites history, blurs boundaries, and incites internet-breaking conversation with every move. Emerging in 2015 with a genre-less brew that inspired a movement, he delivered the Diamond-selling “Congratulations” featuring Quavo, achieved back-to-back No. 1 debuts on the Billboard Top 200, received countless multi-Platinum certifications around the world, and smashed one record after another with his Hot 100 topping hits. In 2022, he pushed boundaries again with his fourth full-length offering, Twelve Carat Toothache, which marked his fourth consecutive Top 5 bow on the Top 200. It also paved the way for his biggest headliner to date, The Twelve Carat Toothache Tour, taking over arenas for multiple dates in major cities throughout the year. He even scored the highest-certified single in RIAA history with the 17x-platinum “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)” featuring Swae Lee, netting the biggest single of his generation. In 2023, he garnered a Grammy Award nod in the category of Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “I Like You (A Happier Song)” with Doja Cat, marking his tenth career nomination in six years.

As the writer or co-writer of all of his songs, Post Malone is one of our generation’s literary geniuses, writing his smash hits “I Fall Apart,” “Better Now,” “Congratulations” featuring Quavo, “Rockstar” featuring 21 Savage, “Sunflower” featuring Swae Lee, and more. Most recently, Post wrote his brand new single entitled “Chemical” which signals the dawn of Post Malone’s next era while he assembles his upcoming fifth full-length offering and one of the most anticipated albums of 2023

Inductees at this year’s event include Glen Ballard, Calvin Broadus Jr. P/K/A Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Jeff Lynne, Teddy Riley & Liz Rose. Master songwriter Tim Rice will be receiving the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award.