Dec 11, 2006 05:45 pm What are ascap and bmi? :)
ascap vs bmi
Posted on Dec 11, 2006 05:44 pm
deeps
Member Since: Jan 26, 2004
what are your thoughts and views?
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Dec 11, 2006 05:45 pm What are ascap and bmi? :)
Dec 11, 2006 05:54 pm they both sound like medical conditions.
Dec 11, 2006 06:06 pm they're both basically do the same things...i think bmi is more twards commercial cd's and ascap leans twards music for video....but these are VERY subtle differances....i've never published anything so i never bothered diggin' into the differances....both have huge buildings here in nashville.
Dec 11, 2006 06:49 pm yeah...they both have their differences...Im curious to know which one if any of the 2, is the better one to go with.
Dan: do you have any knowledge or advice on this one?
Dec 11, 2006 06:50 pm They are companies that basically monitor royalties for your works...via radio streams, jukeboxes etc...
Dec 11, 2006 06:57 pm I chose BMI. I think they're basically the same, but BMI has the perception of being more targeted towards "indepdendent" writers/artists, and ASCAP is more focused towards "commercial" or "major" artists. With that being said there are definitely "major" artists on BMI and "independent" artists on ASCAP. I think i've heard that BMI monitors college/independent radio more closely and ASCAP monitors commercial radio more closely, but I've not actually validated that (so I'm basically just relaying rumors here...)
Dec 11, 2006 07:11 pm Coolo: yeah ive heard that as well BMI being more geared towards indepedant...but if all of my label's tracks are being played on the BBC which is europe's very own 'clear channel' than Id want to go with ASCAP cos most of our stuff is major....than again ive heard both are lackluster with international royalties...kinda stumped on this...leaning towards ascap but I havent really found enough members from either sides to pour out the pro's and con's for a good decision....
hmmm :/
p..s brian im gonna hit you with that track you were featured on sometime this week...i got your email sorry been awol
Dec 11, 2006 07:15 pm About 25 years ago, I remember playing in a band at a club where the owner had had some sort of falling out with ASCAP, and ended up refusing to pay them their royalties for live music. So he told us we could only perform BMI-published songs. How were we to know which ones were which? So we ended up just playing our regular set list. The whole thing struck me as quite funny at the time.
Dec 12, 2006 01:08 am deeps, if you're worried about international, especially european royalties, you might want to take a look at sesac...
www.sesac.com
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