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BMI is proud to pay tribute to the best and brightest in Christian music with its annual Christian Awards celebration. The honorees were announced today on BMI.com and across the organization’s digital platforms, celebrating the encouraging and uplifting music of BMI’s Christian songwriters. To honor these achievements, BMI…
BMI Congratulates its 2016 Dove Award Winners
BMI affiliates had a great evening, winning many categories of the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards, held last night in Nashville. For those who missed the inspirational ceremony, the awards show will air on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) on Sunday, October 16. Here’s the complete list of BMI winners: SONG…
BMI Congratulates its 2016 Dove Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2016 Dove Awards, which honor outstanding achievements and excellence in Christian Music, are out, and BMI affiliates are poised to win several coveted awards, with many of our cherished writers up for multiple trophies. Final winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, from Lipscomb…
BMI Honors Christian Music’s Best at 2016 Awards Ceremony
BMI proudly honored the songwriters and publishers of the top 25 songs played on Christian radio during the past year at the 2016 BMI Christian Awards, held this evening at the Company’s Nashville office on Music Row. In addition, the Christian Songwriters of the Year, Publisher of the Year and…
BMI Salutes its 2016 GRAMMY Winners
BMI songwriters had an amazing night at the 58th GRAMMYs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, on Monday, taking home top awards across the board. Taylor Swift continued her ascendance by winning Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of The Year for 1989, Mark Ronson snagged Record of…
BMI Writers Receive Multiple GRAMMY Nominations
2015 proved to be another explosive year for BMI songwriters. In advance of the 58th Annual GRAMMY awards, BMI is very proud to congratulate all of our many affiliates who have earned impressive nominations for their musical contributions across a wide range of genres, including Taylor Swift and Maroon 5…
2015 BMI Christian Awards Celebrates Christian Music’s Best Songs, Songwriters and Publishers
Broadcast Music, Inc. saluted the top 25 of the past year’s most performed Christian rock, contemporary Christian, inspirational, southern and urban gospel songs on U.S. Christian radio at the 2015 BMI Christian Awards, held last night at BMI’s Nashville offices on Music Row. The annual awards ceremony also honored the…
BMI Congratulates the 2013 American Music Awards Nominees
Broadcast Music, Inc. rapper-and-producer duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis topped this year’s American Music Awards nominations, accumulating a total of six nods. The Seattle natives are up for Artist of the Year, Single of the Year (“Thrift Shop), Favorite Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop, Favorite Album – Rap/Hip-Hop, New Artist of the…
BMI Affiliates Soar at the 44th Annual Dove Awards
Following last year’s impressive number of wins, Broadcast Music, Inc.’s Christian artists, writers and producers once again took home more than half of the GMA Dove Awards this past week in Nashville. With awards won ranging from Hip-Hop Song of the Year (Lecrae’s “Tell the World”) to Bluegrass Album of…
The Top 5 Lyric Pitfalls
I’m in my eighteenth year of teaching BMI’s Nashville Songwriters’ Workshop. In those classes I’ve listened to 40 to 50 songs at least 10 times a year. I did some math: I’ve reviewed more than 8,000 songs—and that does not include the songs I critiqued in the master classes,…