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The Norwegian songwriting and production team, Electric, comprised of Edvard Erfjord and Henrik Michelsen, are sending shock waves through the U.K., and now the U.S., with their own unique brand of pop/rhythmic infectious music. Having just won Single of the Year at the BRIT Awards for their Little Mix single,…
BMI Honors Taylor Swift and Legendary Songwriting Duo Mann & Weil at the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards
BMI celebrated the songwriters and publishers behind the year’s most-performed pop songs at the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Global superstar Taylor Swift was presented with the first-ever Taylor Swift Award, a special award bearing her name in recognition…
BMI Writers Craft Irresistible Crossover Hits
When John Legend’s “All of Me” took Song of the Year at both the 2015 BMI Pop Awards and the 2015 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, followed by four other songs that made the top-performed BMI songs on radio last year for both Pop and R&B/Hip Hop, “Black Widow,” “Don’t…
P!nk Receives President’s Award at 63rd Annual BMI Pop Awards
Broadcast Music, Inc, honored dynamic singer-songwriter P!nk with the BMI President’s Award for her outstanding achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture and the entertainment industry at the Company’s 63rd annual Pop Awards, held last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The event also…
BMI Congratulates its GRAMMY Nominees
Broadcast Music, Inc. writers have a lot to celebrate following the announcement of the 2015 GRAMMY nominations. The winners will be revealed during the 57th annual GRAMMY awards, held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live February 8, 2015 on CBS. BMI writers are present in nominations…
BMI Writers Get Major Nods for 2014 CMAs
Broadcast Music, Inc. is pleased to announce its songwriters are represented in every category of nominations for the 48th Annual Country Music Association awards, to be held November 5, 2014, aired live on ABC from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. An impressive 12 songwriters have multiple nominations, including Miranda Lambert, matching a…
Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds to be Honored With Hal David Starlight Award
BMI songwriter Dan Reynolds will be presented with the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award at the 45th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner slated for Thursday, June 12, 2014, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Reynolds is the lead vocalist of the GRAMMY-winning rock band,…
16th Annual John Lennon Scholarship Winners Announced
The winners of the BMI Foundation’s 16th annual John Lennon Scholarship were announced on September 24, 2013, by BMI Assistant Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, New York, Samantha Cox, who is also Director of the competition, which recognizes the best and brightest young songwriters between the ages of 17 and 24.…
Cash Money’s Bryan ‘Birdman’ Williams and Ronald ‘Slim’ Williams and Top Songwriters Honored at the 2013 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
Celebrities, media and music industry tastemakers converged at the Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on August 22 to watch Broadcast Music, Inc. present the BMI Icon Award to Cash Money Records' Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams at the 2013 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards. The star-studded event,…
BMI Songwriters Recognized by Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013
Broadcast Music, Inc. songwriter Sam Cooke, who was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, is again being recognized for his work with the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame Towering Song Award for “A Change Is Gonna Come.” The 44th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on Thursday,…
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