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Aug 02, 2012 Hit songwriter Jim Beavers performs at BMI. View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 After his performance, BMI presented Jim Beavers with two Million-Air certificates celebrating one million performances of both Gary Allan’s “Watching Airplanes” and Billy Currington’s “Don’t.” View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 On a sunny Nashville afternoon, BMI’s licensing department enjoyed ice cream sundaes along with songs from top-tier BMI songwriter Jim Beavers. Co-writer on some of country’s biggest hits including “Watching Airplanes” by Gary Allan, “Don’t” by Billy Currington, and most recently “Red Solo Cup” by Toby Keith, Beavers treated the employees to an acoustic set as well as a few… View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 BMI and Capitol Records invited Music Row to Nashville’s newest venue, Marathon Music Works, on July 30 to recognize the success of Eric Church’s No. 1 smash “Springsteen.” The single, co-written by Church and first-time chart-toppers Ryan Tyndell and Jeff Hyde, is Church’s biggest hit to date and the second No. 1 off his third studio album, Chief, which was… View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 Eric Church (center) poses with “Springsteen” co-writers Ryan Tyndell (left) and Jeff Hyde (right) at the song’s No. 1 party. View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 Pictured at the “Springsteen” No. 1 party are BMI’s Jody Williams, Ole Music’s Arthur Buenahora, co-writer Ryan Tyndell, Eric Church, co-writer Jeff Hyde, BMG’s Sara Johnson, Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s Troy Tomlinson, and Ole Music’s Gilles Godard. View Photo

Aug 02, 2012 To celebrate Chief going platinum, Capitol Records presented a barrel of Jack Daniel’s whiskey to Eric Church. View Photo

Aug 01, 2012 BMI’s David Claassen recently caught up with New Found Glory while the classic punk group stopped in Atlanta on the Vans Warped Tour. Pictured outside the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus are Cyrus Bolooki, Stephen "Steve" Klein, Jordan Pundik, Ian Grushka, Chad Gilbert and Claassen. View Photo

Aug 01, 2012 Hit country songwriter Kostas recently performed for the Idaho State Broadcasters at their July convention. The award-winning songwriter treated the crowd to several of his best known works including “Blame It on Your Heart” (Patty Loveless) and “Ain’t That Lonely Yet” (Dwight Yoakam). Smiles, applause and a standing ovation were left in the wake of his highly entertaining set. Pictured… View Photo

Aug 01, 2012 New York University (NYU) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) joined forces to present the Music in Commercial Media Workshop at NYU from July 28-30. The intensive three-day seminar taught participants the business and techniques of producing and composing music for advertising, corporate branding, and music production libraries. Pictured are (back row) Ken Ferris, Senior Creative Director, Arnold Worldwide; Andy Block,… View Photo