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Billboard Honors BMI’s Barbara Cane, Taylor Swift & Nicki Minaj at Women in Music Event
Billboard saluted the industry’s foremost women at its 6th annual Women in Music event, held December 2 at Capitale in New York. BMI’s Barbara Cane, who began working at the company in 1970 as a high schooler, was celebrated for her longtime leadership, mentorship, and many BMI achievements, alongside 39 other leaders, all dubbed the “top 40 executives in the music business today.” Cane wasn’t the only…
From News, posted 12.02.11
Kanye West, Adele Lead BMI List of Grammy Nominees
Kanye West and Adele top the long list of BMI nominees for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, announced Wednesday, November 30. With seven, West garnered the most nods of any artist. His prolific risk-taking over the past year helped ensure his nominations haul. He’ll compete against himself in the Best Rap Album field: solo effort My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne,…
From News, posted 12.02.11
New MusicWorld Digital Issue Features Joss Stone, Wiz Khalifa & More
Check out the new digital issue of BMI MusicWorld, featuring… Joss Stone: “I never say ‘no’ to trying something. That’s just not in my personality.” Wiz Khalifa: “23-year-old Wiz Khalifa quieted the naysayers, embraced the haters and mobilized the Taylor Gang crew, pushing his Atlantic Records debut Rolling Papers to gold-selling status.” Skylar Grey: “‘It’s natural,’ Skylar Grey says of her bond with English beat-making phenom…
From News, posted 12.01.11
Hillbilly Rock: With ‘V,’ Kenny Vaughan Takes the Mic
If you live in Nashville, you’ve probably seen guitarist Kenny Vaughan around. Matter of fact, if you don’t live in Nashville, you’ve probably seen him around — on a stage, on your television, in your wildest rockabilly fantasies. Even off-stage, this lanky, western-shirt-wearing fellow has the look of someone who carries a guitar pick in his pocket and a box of promo CDs in the trunk of…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.01.11
The BMI Holiday Countdown: Buck Owens, “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy”
Hall-decking, bell-jingling, holiday hysteria is upon us, and joining the party is so much more fun than grinching out on the sidelines. So count us in. Here at BMI, we’re sharing eight of our favorite holiday songs – check back every Tuesday and Thursday on bmi.com until December 22, the week before Christmas.
Buck Owens and Don Rich claim the second spot on the countdown.
From News, posted 12.01.11
Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Brings Hit-Makers Together to Beat Breast Cancer
Presented by Texas Roadhouse, Coors, BMI, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort, new festival debuts January 13-14 in the heart of Colorado’s premier ski destination
From News, posted 11.28.11
BMI MusicWorld Launches New Digital Edition
Long-running, critically acclaimed magazine gets redesign for global reach BMI long-running MusicWorld magazine, first launched in 1962, is now available online. With in-depth profiles of BMI artists and writers, and discussions of issues that affect both music creators and music lovers, the digital MusicWorld will now be easier to access, receive and share through Facebook, Twitter and e-mail. Check out the debut digital BMI MusicWorld, featuring… Miranda…
From News, posted 11.21.11
Taylor Swift, Adele & Nicki Minaj Lead BMI Winners at American Music Awards
Taylor Swift, Adele and Nicki Minaj triumphed at the 2011 American Music Awards, held Sunday, November 20 at the Nokia Theatre in L.A. BMI songwriters took home 76% of the fan-voted trophies, illustrating the effervescent popularity of the BMI catalog with listeners in all formats. Swift took home top Artist of the Year overall, as well as Favorite Female Artist and…
From News, posted 11.21.11
Miranda Lambert: Disparate Housewife
I guess I’m just a housewife now,” chortles Miranda Lambert, 2010’s CMA Female Vocalist of the Year. Lambert is joking, of course. Between promoting two new recording projects and a fall tour, the much-decorated, multi-platinum country artist has seen more of her tour bus than husband Blake Shelton, whom she wed in May 2011. In truth, it’s hard to imagine her any other way.…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.16.11
Brantley Gilbert: Flying High with a Georgia State of Mind
For Brantley Gilbert, who is half of the writing team behind Jason Aldean’s country-rap smash “Dirt Road Anthem,” the key to writing a hit song is still a mystery. In one breath, he advocates sticking to what you know. In the next, stretching your creative boundaries. That’s what happened with “Dirt Road Anthem,” the ubiquitous platinum-selling single, Billboard country no. 1 and top ringtone…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.16.11
BMI Songwriters Dominate 45th Annual CMA Awards
Taylor Swift led the resounding charge of BMI’s new country vanguard at the 45th annual CMA Awards, held Wednesday, November 9 in Nashville. Swift earned her second Entertainer of the Year title, just one day after taking home an armful of BMI hardware at the BMI Country Awards for penning “Back to December,” “Mine,” and “Fearless.” BMI songwriters took home more a walloping 76% of the CMA’s…
From News, posted 11.10.11
Bobby Braddock, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Sony/ATV & More Honored at 2011 BMI Country Awards
BMI celebrated the songwriters and publishers behind country music’s most-performed songs of the past year during the 59th annual BMI Country Awards. BMI staged the event in its Nashville offices, located in the heart of Music Row, where behind-the-scenes hit-makers and center stage superstars came together to toast one another as songwriters. Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson share the Songwriter of the Year crown. Georgia natives and close…
From News, posted 11.08.11
Remembering Liz Anderson, 1930-2011
Longtime BMI songwriter Liz Anderson has died. She was 81. The writer behind Merle Haggard’s “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers” and “Just Between the Two of Us,” which Haggard recorded with Bonnie Owens, Anderson also penned songs for Jerry Lee Lewis, Del Reeves, Roy Drusky, Waylon Jennings, and others, including her daughter, Lynn Anderson, whose career gathered…
From News, posted 11.03.11
Taylor Swift, Kimberly Perry, Thom Schuyler & more Honored at Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Award season is officially underway in Music City. On Sunday, October 16, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) celebrated the men and women behind country music’s most popular songs at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony. BMI songwriters dominated the list of winners, who were determined by the votes of professional members of NSAI. Taylor Swift earned her fourth Artist/Writer of the Year…
From News, posted 10.17.11
Adele Leads List of 2011 American Music Awards Nominees
BMI songwriters take majority of nods
From News, posted 10.13.11
Heart Monitor: Connie Smith
A good bit of contemporary country lyric-writing hinges on tangible detail. A song might, say, paint a picture of how the characters in it are dressed, what they’re driving, where they’re headed, what they’re going to do once they get there and what the weather’s like, all of which helps move the story along, and all of which the country listener is used to hearing. Which is exactly why it’s…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.13.11
Lauren Alaina, From ‘American Idol’ to ‘Wildflower’
Lauren Alaina isn’t the first precocious teenager to set her sights on Nashville. As the 16-year-old prepares for an October 11 launch of her debut, Wildflower, she walks a path traveled by stars like Taylor Swift, Leann Rimes, Tanya Tucker, and Brenda Lee. But Alaina is the rare teen prodigy to arrive on the scene with a fully-formed career -- complete…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.10.11
Bobby Braddock to be Honored as Icon at 59th BMI Country Awards
BMI will honor Bobby Braddock as a BMI songwriting Icon during its 59th annual Country Awards. The private ceremony is slated for Tuesday, November 8 at BMI’s Music Row offices in Nashville. The Icon award is given to BMI songwriters who have had a “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.” Braddock, who will be celebrated with an all-star musical tribute that evening, joins a…
From News, posted 10.03.11
Jeffrey Steele Announces 2011 Songwriting Boot Camp
2011 camp slated for December 1 in Nashville
From News, posted 9.22.11
Pistol Annies Shoot Straight
The name Pistol Annies evokes a gang of six-gun toting bad women from the days of Deadwood, which isn’t entirely off the mark. Despite their angelic harmonies, the trio of hotshot country singer-songwriters Ashley Monroe, Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley bring desperado attitude to their music. “When we started co-writing, the songs naturally ended up being about rowdy outlaw women who…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.14.11
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