At my BMI Nashville Songwriters’ Workshops, I screen and critique songs from each attendee. When I find songs that I believe are competitive with those being written by today’s top hitmakers, I forward them to ten music publishers who have agreed to listen. After the last BMI Workshop, I forwarded… Read more...
Casey Beathard celebrated another milestone the day after being named BMI's 2004 Country Songwriter of the Year -- his hit "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" earned a BMI Million-Air Award for collecting one million brodcast performances. The single appeared on Kenny Chesney's BNA Records release… Read more...
Sony/ATV Tree songwriter Casey Beathard has added three BMI Million-Air certificates to his award collection for his hits "Right Where I Need To Be" (Gary Allan), "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" (Tracy Byrd) and "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" (Aaron… Read more...
Singer/songwriter Aaron Tippin and his band entertained troops stationed at Operation Enduring Freedom Forward Operating Bases in Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Qatar during a Thanksgiving USO tour. Although Tippin missed Thanksgiving with his family, he enjoyed a turkey dinner in Pakistan… Read more...
BMI Nashville hosted a Mexican fiesta at La Paz Restaurante to celebrate Tracy Byrd's #1 hit "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" (10/16). Writers Casey Beathard, Michael Heeney and Marla Cannon-Goodman were honored, in addition to publisher Sony/ATV Acuff-Rose and producer Billy Joe Walker, Jr.… Read more...
BMI will salute the past year's most popular country songs on Tuesday, November 5 at the 50th Annual BMI Country Awards, the oldest awards program honoring country music creators. Staged at the company's Music Row offices, the black-tie, invitation-only event spotlights the 50 most performed songs of last year. BMI… Read more...
BMI writer/artists Toby Keith and Martina McBride collected three nominations when the inaugural CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards were announced in Nashville (5/14). Landing two nominations apiece in country music's first ever music video awards were Brooks & Dunn, Faith… Read more...
BMI songwriting giants Brooks & Dunn and Toby Keith towered above the competition with six nominations each when finalists were unveiled March 14 for the 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Read more...
photo: BMI/Brian Tipton BMI recently visited Windswept Pacific Music in Nashville for lunch and a sampling of songs from its top… Read more...
BMI staged the 49th edition of its Country Awards last night, with ultimate honors saved for “I Hope You Dance,” songwriters Toby Keith, Marv Green and Aimee Mayo, and publishing titan Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. BMI Citations of Achievement were presented by President & CEO Frances… Read more...
