Entertainer Chris Brown watches the first quarter of Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic Saturday, May 30, 2009, in Orlando, Fla.

Singers Chris Brown, left, and Bow Wow smile as they watch during Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic Tuesday May 26, 2009 in Orlando, Fla.

Musical entertainers Usher, left, and Chris Brown share a conversation during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball finals between the Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, May 24, 2009

The songwriter of the year award at the 57th annual BMI Pop Awards resulted in a record-breaking, eight-way tie between Colbie Caillat, Polow Da Don, T-Pain, Alan Chang, Matchbox Twenty’s Paul Doucette and Brian Yale, Chris Brown, and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine.

As for the eight-way shared songwriter of the year award, each of the winners contributed two songs to the 50 most-performed list. The 57th BMI Pop Awards were held tonight (May 19) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.

Caillat also won song of the year honors for “Bubbly,” her international hit published by CocoMarie. She co-wrote with singer/songwriter Jason Reeves. In addition to “Bubbly,” Caillat’s “Realize” earned a spot in the top 50. Polow Da Don contributed “Forever,” co-written and recorded by Chris Brown, and “Love In This Club,” recorded by Usher and featuring Young Jeezy, to the 50 most performed list.

Other songs on the list are T-Pain’s “Kiss Kiss,” which was also recorded and co-written by Chris Brown; “Low,” recorded by Flo Rida; Alan Chang’s “Everything” and “Lost,” both recorded by Michael Bublé; Matchbox Twenty’s Yale and Doucette’s co-compositions “How Far We’ve Come” and “These Hard Times,” from the band’s retrospective “Exile on Mainstream” album; and Maroon 5 frontman Levine’s “Wake Up Call” and “Won’t Go Home Without You,” which he recorded with the rock band.

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The Rihanna and Chris Brown saga continues. While Rihanna made a glamorous return to the red carpet this week, nude images of a woman bearing a likeness to the Barbadian beauty have surfaced on PerezHilton.com. The celebrity gossip blogger claims “Chris Brown must be responsible for this!”

A spokesperson for Brown has released a statement to ESSENCE.com denouncing any connection to the photos.

“This is both a false and defamatory statement. Chris has not released or ‘leaked’ any photos of Rihanna (or anyone else for that matter).”

Brown was expected to appear in court on April 29, but was not required to attend the hearing. According to TMZ.com, Brown’s lawyer Mark Geragos filed two motions requesting for internal police records on the leaked photo of Rihanna’s bruised and battered face. Brown’s next court hearing is May 28.

Reps for Rihanna could not be reached for comment.—CM

Chris Brown celebrates his 20th birthday today! We at Uchris.com would like to wish him very happy and memorable day. Post your birthday wishes or leave a message in the Birthday Book. The completed birthday book will be posted later on and sent to management.