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Feb 13, 2014 GAC Headline Country's Stacy McCloud interviews Parmalee before the No. 1 presentations commence. View Photo

Feb 13, 2014 BMI's Bradley Collins (left), emcee for the afternoon, broke out a poster from a 2002 BMI showcase that featured Parmalee in the early stages of their career. View Photo

Feb 13, 2014 Smiles all around as Broken Bow / Stoney Creek Records’ Benny Brown congratulates the "Carolina" team with a funny anecdote. View Photo

Feb 13, 2014 BMI celebrated the team behind Parmalee’s “Carolina” this week at the Company’s offices in Nashville. Written by Richard Beato and the four members of Parmalee, “Carolina” is all five writers’ first No. 1 song. The party also honored the publishers, radio promotions teams and production group New Voice who all worked on the hit, and was capped off by comments… View Photo

Feb 13, 2014 The writing team behind “Carolina” comes together for a photo after presentations conclude. Pictured l-r: Rick Beato and Parmalee’s Scott Thomas, Matt Thomas, Josh McSwain and Barry Knox. View Photo

Feb 13, 2014 Rick Beato thanks his co-writers Parmalee for “Carolina” in a brief speech. View Photo

Feb 11, 2014 Dylan McDonald, son of five-time GRAMMY Award winner Michael McDonald, stopped by BMI Nashville to sign up as a BMI songwriter. Currently based out of Nashville, McDonald recently had a song featured in the Steve Jobs bio-pic “Jobs.” Pictured are Dylan McDonald and BMI’s Mark Mason. View Photo

Feb 11, 2014 Last week, CMA presented its prestigious Triple Play Award to some of BMI’s finest songwriters, and the Nashville Writer/Publisher Relations team was on hand to congratulate them. The awards, which honor songwriters who penned three No. 1 songs in a 12-month period, were presented to Rhett Akins, Luke Laird, Troy Verges, Dallas Davidson, Natalie Hemby and Hunter Hayes. Pictured L-R… View Photo

Feb 11, 2014 Hot off their Road to Bonnaroo round one victory at Mercy Lounge, Nashville rockers Blank Range stopped by BMI Nashville to sign up officially as BMI writers. In June, the group will travel to Manchester, TN where they’ll perform at Bonnaroo in one of three performance slots arranged by BMI. Pictured L-R are: BMI’s Bradley Collins; Blank Range’s Grant Gustafson,… View Photo

Feb 05, 2014 BMI kicked off its 2014 Road to Bonnaroo competition Monday, February 3 at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge. Featuring The Get Togethers, Them Vibes, The Wans, Shy Guy, Majestico, Goodbye June, Modoc, Blank Range, Elise Davis, and Meth Dad, the battle-of-the-bands once again displayed a vast range of musical talents and pitted talented groups against one another for a spot at the… View Photo