Sports

Because music has the same effect on an audience as a sporting event – it’s energizing and motivating! When an audience is energized, they are more enthusiastic and involved in the game’s action and show more interest in their team’s standing. Interest leads to loyalty and regular game attendance.

Music also helps to keep that enthusiasm high during pauses in game play. Many sport arenas capitalize on the engaging power of music videos, broadcasting them through their in-house networks during breaks in the action. Music and sports – a natural blend.

BMI represents more than 375,000 songwriters, composers and publishers and their more than 6.5 million musical works. Musical works are copyrighted and the legal property of their owners. On behalf of the copyright owners, BMI grants businesses the right to publicly perform BMI music. A "public performance" includes music played by means of radio, TV, CDs, tapes, videos, live musicians and even over telephone on-hold systems.

The Professional League Music Performance Agreement allows you to play or perform all of the musical works in the BMI catalog, as often as you like. It is your ticket to perform our affiliates’ music in the following ways:

• a live performance or other musical attraction within your facility on a game day as long as there is no separate charge for that live performance:
• live or recorded music (from your own tapes, CDs, etc.) used as entertainment for the spectators within your facility before, after and/or between games.

Please keep in mind that the agreement does not cover:

• music performed in any hotel, restaurant or other facility at your place of business.
• recording or reproducing any musical performance on tape or CD.

Your license fee is determined by your total yearly attendance rounded down to the last full thousand. The fee rate for the calendar year 2005 is $6.10. The minimum for this year is $305. That works out to:

Attendees Fee

First 50,999 attendees $305

Each additional full Thousand over 50,000 $6.10/1000

For example: If you have 51,000 attendees, your fee will be computed like this:

51 (for each 1000) X $6.10 = $311.10

BMI operates as a non-profit making organization and, after deducting operating expenses, returns more than 85% of the fees back to our affiliated songwriters, composers and publishers in the form of royalties. This allows them to continue doing what they do best – CREATE MORE MUSIC.

BMI and ASCAP are two different licensing organizations, and each has its own catalog of music. Your agreement with ASCAP does not permit you to play BMI-licensed music.

You may search our catalog on this web site, on the BMI.com repertoire.