What Performance Rights Society do you think is better? ASCAP or BMI?

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Comment by Woody Black on April 18, 2009 at 4:43pm

Thanks for the comments Miklekri,
I studied the comments made here by experienced people on the subject,such as Billy Arr "The Word Weaver". I ended up choosing ASCAP. Reading all of this helped me tremendously. Thanks to all who have commented thus far!

p.s. Your typed English is not bad at all.

Comment by Miklekri on April 18, 2009 at 1:49pm

--"Of these two Music Industry giants,does one offer better advantages? Why did you choose one over the other or does it matter?"
---Due to the fact that I am not a resident of the U.S. I had to choose the filling of documents to be sent by mail. And that ASCAP had better understood and less paper.

Comment by Miklekri on April 17, 2009 at 6:30am

I have long compared two companies on the internet and found no difference. Although ASCAP chose, because I liked the system and more as a proposal to filling documentation. (sorry for my bad english)))

Comment by Soothing Blues Charity CD Compilation on January 23, 2009 at 2:32pm

I do know of the Horror stories of ASCAP back in the day. But these days I'm not sure who's looking out for your best interest.-Peace-Bish

Comment by Billy Arr on January 13, 2009 at 10:47am

Ref: Dan Goodman comment. Dan, BMI is NOT a publisher. You cannot "Publish" your music thru them. They WILL collect royalties for you as a writer for a publishing company , or collect royalties for your publishing company, but they are a performance rights organization, NOT a publisher. There's a big difference between the two. Billy Arr

Comment by Jami on January 4, 2009 at 12:45am

ASCAP was there for me when I had nothing they are AMAZING and truly care. BMI may be great as well but I will always be loyal to ASCAP

Comment by Dan Goodman on January 3, 2009 at 12:49pm

Woody, I think i would have to say BMI, We have had our material published with them for 5 years now and we are very pleased with them !..Dan

Comment by Carolyn walden on December 31, 2008 at 9:30pm

of the commercial radio stations in the USA 80% are own by 2 companies Clear Channel & Infinity Broadcasting. Most radio stations do not accept CD's sent to them by mail for airplay, most stations get their music from Spin Tracking system which allow stations to download songs to be aired. they also track your songs. all of my songs are on spin tracking systems and i get air play nation wide their is a cost for this service www.airplayaccess.com there is a free service that you may submit your songs to www.airplaydirect.com

Comment by Carolyn walden on December 31, 2008 at 9:21pm

When ASCAP was first formed it did not consider R&B & Blues as american music and therefore these artist could not join ASCAP until BMI was formed and was open to all music art forms, many Black artist such as Little Richard, Chuck Berry and the artist that first recorded blues never received royalty for their songs. So the answer is BMI

Comment by Billy Arr on December 31, 2008 at 7:46pm

In Answer To: Pat Reid. No, Pat. As a member of SOCAN rest assured that as a Canadian your music is covered WORLDWIDE. You could only join one of the others if you were totally free of SOCAN.
I don't mean that you cannot live in Canada and be a member of a U.S. performance rights society, you could, if you were free, but it's absolutely unnecessary. All monies received, by all companies, worldwide, are forwarded to your particular affiliation. Foreign royalties will of course always arrive quite a bit later (up to a year and a half?) than your local Country royalties. Hope this helps. Billy Arr

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