{"id":485613,"date":"2019-05-08T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=833022"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:42:07","slug":"justin-timberlake-to-receive-songwriters-hall-of-fames-contemporary-icon-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/justin-timberlake-to-receive-songwriters-hall-of-fames-contemporary-icon-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake to Receive Songwriters Hall of Fame\u2019s \u2018Contemporary Icon\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin Timberlake<\/a> will receive the \u201cContemporary Icon\u201d Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame\u2019s 50th annual induction gala<\/a>, scheduled for June 13th at New York\u2019s Marriott Marquis Hotel. The award, according to the organization\u2019s website, recognizes \u201ca songwriter-artist who has attained an iconic status in pop culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJustin is extraordinary,\u201d said producer, Chic member and SHOF chairman Nile Rodgers<\/a> in a statement. \u201cLike Michael Jackson and George Michael before him, he\u2019s turned pop music into great art and made three or four of the most influential albums of the last 15 years. How? He knows the secret is extraordinary songs. He and Timbaland have defined an era.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

SHOF President and CEO Linda Moran called Timberlake \u201cmultitalented and multifaceted, respected, admired and beloved by his fans and peers alike.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An announcement for Timberlake\u2019s honor cites the singer-songwriter\u2019s credentials \u2014 including over 32 million albums sold worldwide, 10 Grammy awards and eight Number One Billboard hits (all of which he wrote or co-wrote). He will become the second artist to receive the recognition, following Lady Gaga in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other inductees at the 2019 event include Missy Elliott<\/a>, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens<\/a>), John Prine<\/a>, Dallas Austin<\/a>, Tom T. Hall and Jack Tempchin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Timberlake released his fifth studio album, Man of the Woods<\/em><\/a>, in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Timberlake will receive the \u201cContemporary Icon\u201d Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame\u2019s 50th annual induction gala, scheduled for June 13th at New York\u2019s Marriott Marquis Hotel. The award, according to the organization\u2019s website, recognizes \u201ca songwriter-artist who has attained an iconic status in pop culture.\u201d \u201cJustin is extraordinary,\u201d said producer, Chic member and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:16:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}