Who does BMI represent?
BMI represents more than 6.5 million musical works by more than 475,000 songwriters, composers and publishers from across the musical spectrum. Our catalog includes musical works written by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Dolly Parton, Miles Davis, Babyface, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon and Elton John just to name a few. BMI songwriters make up 75% of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 82% of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and 90% of the Pioneer Awards for R&B. BMI TV, film, theater and classical composers are equally successful. BMI legends such as Mike Post of “NYPD Blue,” fame or Ed Kalehoff, who wrote the opening for “Monday Night Football,” Charlie Fox, who penned numerous TV hits, including “Happy Days,” and WG Snuffy Walden, whose first big theme was for “ThirtySomething” are a small sample of the composers represented by BMI. BMI also represents the primary composers of many of the top grossing films of all t
