BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939, collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire of more than 6.5 million compositions - including radio airplay, broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded performances by all other users of music - are then distributed as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it represents.BMI's roster of affiliated songwriters and composers is unsurpassed and includes outstanding creators in every style of musical composition: from pop songwriters to film and television composers; from classical composers to commercial jingle writers; from library music to musical theater composers; from jazz to hip-hop; from metal to meringue; classical to classic soul; from rock to reggae, and all the categories in betweenOur urban songwriters include many of today's top artist in Hip Hop, R&B and Gospel such as Kanye West, R. Kelly and Yolanda Adams ( too name a few). BMI urban songwriters range from urban music royalty (ie Aretha Franklin, Al Green, George Clinton) to new up and coming artist/songwriters such Trey Songz, Yummy Bingham, and Chris Brown.With such a diverse representation of urban songwriters, it's no wonder why BMI has continued for over 60 years to be a driving creative force in Urban Music. MyGen Profile GeneratorBMI Unsigned Urban Artist Showcase (ATLANTA)
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