About Broadcast Music, Inc.

BMI collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

Join BMI

Get paid when your music gets played.

I am a…

Get a BMI License

Enter your business type below.

Examples: Bars & Restaurants, Retail, Local Government Entities (LGE), Venue, TV, Radio

New Media

Examples: Website, Mobile

Close Broadcast Music, Inc. collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it distributes as royalties to songwriters, composers & music publishers.
 

Shel Silverstein appears in...

Kris Kristofferson, Taylor Swift, Bobby Pinson, and More Honored at 2009 BMI Country Awards

Photo

The 57th Annual BMI Country Awards celebrated the genre’s top hit-makers tonight in Nashville. In addition to toasting the writers and publishers of the past year’s 50 most-performed country songs from the BMI repertoire, the ceremony honored Kris Kristofferson as a BMI Icon; named Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” Song of the Year, Bobby Pinson Songwriter of the Year, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Publisher of…


From News, posted 11.10.09

Kris Kristofferson to be Honored as Icon at 57th Annual BMI Country Awards

Photo

Kris Kristofferson will be honored as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI Country Awards, the oldest awards saluting country's top music makers. Slated for Tuesday, November 10 at BMI's Music Row offices in Nashville, the black-tie, invitation-only gala will also celebrate the songwriters of the past year's most-performed country songs from the extensive BMI catalog. The Icon designation is given to BMI songwriters and artists…


From News, posted 6.30.09

Nashville Welcomes Dillon and Silverstein to Songwriters Hall of Fame

BMI Award-winners Dean Dillon and the late Shel Silverstein are the newest additions to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dillon and Silverstein, along with Bob Dylan, were inducted November 3 during annual ceremonies conducted by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation at Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel in Nashville.


From News, posted 11.03.02

More news...