Awards To date Bobby has won an amazing 29 BMI Performance Awards which are based on number of plays per year for a certain song.  Bobby has also recieved 4 BMI million-air awards which are given to the writer's of songs that have been played in excess of 1 million times on the radio. "Old Flames Have New Names"  1 Million airs. Co-written with Rafe Van Hoy.  Hit for Mark Chestnutt "Time Marches On"  1 Million airs. Hit for Tracy Lawrence. "Texas Tornado" 1 Million airs. Hit for Tracy Lawrence. "He Stopped Loving Her Today"  2 Million airs. Co-written with Curly Putman.  Hit for George Jones. Nashville Songwriter's Foundation NSF has the most complete listing of Bobby's awards online.

Bobby's first #1 was Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E?"