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Tones And I, Sia, Lady Gaga Among Winners at 2020 APRA Music Awards
With two trophies, including the coveted song of the year, Tones And I was the big winner at the APRA Music Awards on Monday (May 25).Tones (real name Toni Watson) has now won just about every major accolade going since her breakthrough hit “Dance Monkey” evolved into a monster.The single recently passed seven billion streams across all platforms, including more than one billion on YouTube and 1.4 billion on Spotify, a record for a female artist.On Monday, Tones bagged the peer-voted APRA song of the year, one of the most precious industry awards in Australasia, to go with the 2020 breakthrough songwriter of the year, an honor that is determined by the PRO’s board of writer and publisher directors.“As an artist, we don’t get recognized, a