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BMI Christian Music Awards Honor Genre’s Most-Played Songs
Rodney Griffin, tobyMac, Needtobreathe’s Bo Rinehart, Scott Krippayne & Universal Music Publishing Group Win Top Honors BMI saluted the writers and publishers of the past year’s most-performed songs on Christian radio and television during the annual Christian Music Awards tonight at the company’s Music Row offices in Nashville. Genre-jumping star tobyMac shared his second consecutive Christian Songwriter of the Year crown… more
Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Lady A & The Band Perry Drive BMI’s Winning Night at ACMs
BMI’s country music family dominated the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards held Sunday, April 3 in Las Vegas, taking home a resounding 80% of the night’s trophies. From wins by Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert, to Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry, the annual ceremony served as a clear barometer of the undiminished supremacy BMI’s deep… more
Amazon’s Cloud Drive: Convenience — and Controversy
Late last month, Amazon, the Seattle-based online retailing giant, announced the premiere of its Cloud Drive, an online music-backup service that allows Amazon customers to store music “in the cloud," with the ability to access personal libraries from any location and on any computer. While putting Amazon in the pole position ahead of Apple and Google — which have both been working to bring to market similar cloud-based ventures —… more
BMI Hosts Discussion with FCC Commissioner McDowell and Congresswoman Blackburn
BMI hosted a Town Hall meeting at its Music Row office on Tuesday, March 29, during which FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn spoke about intellectual property, net neutrality, and the ever-changing landscape of technology—and how it all affects performing rights. Much of the discussion revolved around net neutrality, and the various positions taken by the FCC regarding it. Specifically, Commissioner McDowell addressed his views regarding the challenges… more
April Indie Profiles Highlight BMI Trendsetters
BMI’s April batch of indie singer/songwriter profiles canvasses the contemporary counter-culture, delighting in the quirky creations of featured artists Milo Greene, Rayland Baxter, Cheer Up Charlie Daniels, Garrett Pierce, David Hopkins, Diamond Doves, The Drowning Men, Jim Bianco, Kotadama, more
NYU, Songwriters Hall of Fame Launch Masters Session Series
Robert Rowe, director of music and performing arts professions at New York University's The Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development, and Jimmy Webb, chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), have jointly announced that the two institutions will collaborate to create The Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Sessions at NYU. The inaugural Master Session will take place June 14, 2011. With a focus… more
Broadcast Radio on the Rebound
Remember those media-savvy soothsayers who said that CDs would ultimately stamp out all things analog? With data showing a sustained spike in vinyl-album sales and other old-school art forms, those same experts have been forced to issue hasty retractions. Now traditionalists may have something else to cheer about, thanks to a handful of recent reports suggesting that conventional broadcast radio is itself on the rebound. Mike Steinberg, BMI Senior Vice… more
Library of Congress Announces 2010 Additions to National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress has named the 25 new additions to the ninth annual National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, which will ensure that these cultural, artistic and historical recordings are always available to the American public. Included among them are works that demonstrate the depth and breadth of the BMI repertoire, ranging from the seminal blues sounds of Blind Willie Johnson to the classic… more
House, Senate Judiciary Committee Leaders Focus on Intellectual Property Protections
Leading members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees from both sides of the aisle recently got together on Capitol Hill to speak about the continuing harm online infringement and counterfeits pose to American jobs and the economy. On April 4, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas),… more
Harley Allen Dies
BMI singer, songwriter, and musician Harley Allen died last week after a battle with cancer. He was 55. Allen moved naturally from honky tonk to bluegrass to country music’s mainstream, and back again. The 2005 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year wrote or co-wrote BMI Country Award-winning songs including Alan Jackson’s searing “Between the Devil and Me” (1998) and “Everything I Love,” Joe Nichols’ “I’ll Wait for You”… more
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