Recent Licensing News

From News, posted 10.20.21. BMI singer-songwriters Gunnar Latham and Josh Grider helped kick-off the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association’s 40th Anniversary Show, performing at the welcome ceremony recently (10/13) in Dallas, Texas. The event, which was held at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, brought together fitness leaders from around the world to share… Read more...

From News, posted 10.15.21. The Colorado Restaurant Association’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards were highlighted by a performance from up-and-coming BMI singer-songwriter Chance Pena. The 21-year-old Tyler, Texas native, who currently resides in Los Angeles, appeared on The Voice when he was just 15 years old only to go on a few years later to co-write… Read more...

From News, posted 10.15.21. The Maryland Retailers Association held their annual awards show virtually again this year and it featured a performance by BMI Nashville songwriter Sam Grow. The Southern Maryland native has been named by Billboard as a “Country Act to Watch,” and his 2020 single “Song About You” garnered more than 50 million… Read more...

From News, posted 10.11.21. BMI was on hand at this year’s Mountain Plains Museums Association conference to educate museum executives on how to use music legally in their exhibits and as a part of their programming. The BMI panel featured an appearance by GRAMMY-nominated BMI songwriter Jim McCormick, who helped attendees understand how important public… Read more...

From News, posted 10.11.21. The Minnesota Broadcasters Association’s annual conference, held recently in Stillwater, MN, featured a performance by an award-winning BMI songwriter with local roots. Emily Shackelton, who is a Biwabek native, performed some of her biggest country hits for the audience of radio and TV executives from her home state. While at the… Read more...

From News, posted 9.28.21. BMI partnered with IHeart Media and the Lee County Visitors and Convention Bureau recently to present the 7th annual Island Hopper Songwriters Fest in southwest Florida. After taking a pause in 2020 during the pandemic, the festival resumed this year with packed outdoor venues and record-breaking revenue for the participating BMI-licensed… Read more...

From News, posted 9.27.21. In what has become an annual tradition, BMI provided the musical entertainment at the International Broadcasters Idea Bank (IBIB) fall conference, held recently (09/21) at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. Hailing from Rochester, MI, recording artist Trey Simon performed his newest singles “The Impossible” and “When The Lights Turn… Read more...

From News, posted 9.24.21. BMI helped Radio Ink magazine honor a music industry legend recently at the Hispanic Radio Conference, held at the Intercontinental Hotel at Doral in Miami, where BMI songwriter and publisher Emilio Estefan was the recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Award as part of Radio Ink’s Medallas de Cortez Awards Presentation. Paying… Read more...

From News, posted 9.02.21. BMI partnered recently (08/28/21) with Federated Media’s WBYT B100, to present their first annual BMI Songwriters in-the-Round, held at the rooftop bar of Four Winds Field in South Bend, IN. Nashville-based BMI singer-songwriters Levi Hummon, Stephen Wilson, Jr., and Matt Chase and Chris Rogers, of the duo Southerland, were the featured… Read more...

From News, posted 8.20.21. Recently signed BMI songwriter Ryleigh Modig, who appeared on Season 20 of The Voice, highlighted the closing evening of the Council of State Retail Associations annual conference by performing on The Raven, as attendees enjoyed a boat cruise on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland. The 19-year-old Spencer, Massachusetts native performed… Read more...