Norways foreign-minister Jonas Gahr Store has visited StarGates studio in New York, so it was kind of an old acquaintance who presented the award to Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen.

Not long after their second Grammy Award, they got their second Spellemannpris.

Stargate received a Grammy award for their Rihanna recording "Only Girl (In The World)". This is Stargate's second Grammy award. Two years ago they won the award for best R&B song with Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent".The Norwegian duo have had sensational international success with artists like Rihanna, Beyoncé, Katy Perry and Ne-Yo. In fact, they have had a total of eight number one hits on Billboard Hot 100.

Norwegian Stargate (Mikkel Eriksen & Tor Hermansen) have been named “Songwriter of the Year” at the 26th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, California.

ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams and ASCAP CEO John A. LoFrumento presented Norwegian songwriters/producers Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen with ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year award.

The StarGate the duo was responsible for penning an impressive six of the most performed songs of the past year:
Chris Brown’s “With You,”
Ne-Yo’s “Closer” and “Miss Independent,”
Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” and “Take a Bow,”
and Jordin Sparks’s “Tattoo.”

This is the second time that Stargate have been named Songwriters of the Year — the hit-making duo picked up the coveted prize at the 2007 ASCAP Awards in London after taking the charts by storm with a string of hits, including the Billboard #1 “So Sick” by Ne-Yo.

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