Triple Decker: The CMA will honor 16 songwriters for having three No. 1s in a year at its annual Triple Play Awards April 13 in Nashville. They are: Andy Albert, Louis Bell, John Byron, Jessie Jo Dillon, Ashley Gorley, Riley Green, Charlie Handsome, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ella Langley, Chase McGill, John Morgan, Blake Pendergrass, Taylor Phillips, Austin Post, Ernest Keith Smith and Morgan Wallen. Albert, Bell, Green, Kasher Hindlin, Langley, Morgan, Pendergrass and Post will receive their first Triple Play Award; Gorley will pick up his 27th. Also at the event, NSAI Exec. Dir. Bart Herbison will receive the CMA Songwriters Advocate Award, while 40 writers will be recognized for having their first No. 1. Songwriter Jim Beavers returns as host.