Broadcast Music, Inc. collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it distributes as royalties to songwriters, composers & music publishers.
Money Matters
BMI will distribute more than $900 million in royalties for its 2007-2008 fiscal year to the songwriters, composers and copyright owners it represents, an eight percent increase over the prior fiscal year.
How We Pay
Learn how BMI royalties are calculated and distributed. more
Licensing
BMI has set benchmarks in licensing fees, moving to flat fee payments as markets reach maturity. Emerging markets continue to be licensed on a percentage-of-revenue basis, allowing the company’s revenues to grow as those markets grow. BMI’s market share reflects the popularity of its songwriters’ and composers’ works and is a prime factor in determining license fees.
Data Collection
BMI combines census and sample airplay data totaling more than 4,000,000 hours, providing the most detailed and wide-ranging picture of radio airplay available in the entertainment industry today. BMI’s analysis of TV music is drawn from a survey of more than 15,000,000 broadcast hours per year.
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