May 26, 2004

Robin Lerner and Faith Hill Celebrate Million-Air ‘Kiss’

BMI Pop and Country Award-winning songwriter Robin Lerner was the guest of honor at a BMI-hosted Million-Air luncheon, recognizing the five million performance milestone of "This Kiss," the #1 smash for Faith Hill from her 1998 Warner Bros. album Faith. The Grammy-, CMA- and ACM-praised song. which Lerner co-wrote with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff, recently entered the list of the top 100 songs in BMI's catalog of more than 4.5 million compositions.

Pictured at BMI Nashville are BMI's Joyce Rice, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Faith Hill, Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and BMI's David Preston. Photo by Kay Williams

Based on an average length of three minutes, one million broadcast performances are the equivalent of 50,000 hours or 5.7 years of continuous airplay; played consecutively, "This Kiss" would last over 28 years.