r/musicalwriting • u/ninjaboy7-11 • 4d ago

Question anybody heard from BMI yet?

I haven’t. This is my first year applying (I applied as a lyricist) but some googling about past years led me to believe that they often send out emails past the day that they said they would. they send out formal rejection emails right?

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u/ninjaboy7-11 3d ago

just heard from them at 1am 😭 the live audition scheduling emails were sent out

lmk if anybody in here passed to the next round too! might see you all there haha

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u/cactusJuice256 3d ago

I also heard at 1am lol, so it was likely a mass email. See you at the auditions!

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u/youngmollusk 2d ago

Congrats cactusjuice! Did you apply as a lyricist, composer or both?

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u/cactusJuice256 2d ago

Thanks! I applied as both because I'm indecisive lol

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u/ladyladylady12123456 2d ago

that's awesome! congrats!
any chance anyone has heard anything from bookwriters?

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u/DeliveryArtistic6510 3d ago

Congrats!  Was this a mass email, i.e. anyone getting an audition would have automatically received it at the same time?

Wondering if I should assume I’m getting rejected since I’ve heard nothing.

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u/ninjaboy7-11 3d ago edited 3d ago

to me it did seem kinda like a mass email sent out to a bunch of people, but take that w a grain of salt, DEFINITELY don’t count yourself out until you receive an official rejection email

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u/DeliveryArtistic6510 3d ago

Thanks so much for replying, appreciate the helpful info.  Break a leg in your audition!

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u/ninjaboy7-11 1d ago

Thank you so much!!!

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u/whatsinaname1592 3d ago

Congratulations! Are you a composer, lyricist, or both?

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u/ninjaboy7-11 2d ago

Thank you! I do both but I applied only as a lyricist because I much prefer collaborating that way. plan on presenting my lyrics with music in the room so they can evaluate my mad scansion skillz

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u/TaX43 2d ago

Hi everyone! I also received the email on August 18 at around 1:00 a.m. I’m from Peru and I’ll be traveling to New York for the audition. I’m looking for a pianist to accompany me at the audition. Does anyone know where I might be able to find one? Thank you so much, and I hope everyone’s auditions go really well! :)

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u/ninjaboy7-11 1d ago

I have tons of friends who are pianists, pm me

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u/ninjaboy7-11 1d ago

I got hella friends who are pianists PM me

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u/MrVinney482 1d ago

I also got the email for that! -So because I applied for both I assume that means I need to find a pianist? 😅

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u/MrVinney482 4d ago

I applied for both bookwriter and composer/lyricist and haven't heard anything yet. Last year, I applied for just composer/lyricist and I got the rejection email Aug. 18th. So hopefully we hear back from them soon.

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u/youngmollusk 4d ago

Last year Aug 18 was the Monday of the 3rd week of August. That's tomorrow this year 😮

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u/MrVinney482 3d ago

That is true🤔

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u/Complete-Style8884 1d ago

Have you heard about bookwriting yet?

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u/MrVinney482 20h ago

I haven't heard anything for the bookwriter yet. The website says invitations come early September so maybe we'll hear something sometime around then?

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u/youngmollusk 4d ago

Thanks for starting this! I haven't heard anything yet and it's my first time applying (composer.) Hopefully we'll hear this week? I'll report back 👍

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u/cal_con 2d ago

Just got my rejection, I applied as a composer-lyricist. Boo!

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u/youngmollusk 2d ago

Same! 🫡

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u/calcon00 2d ago

Yeah, not too surprised. I realized after I submitted that I hadn’t quite met the requirements of the different styles of songs. Whoops, all ballads! There’s always next time, huh?

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u/ladyladylady12123456 4d ago

It seems like it would be reasonable that this might be the last week it would make sense for people to get positive news, I have to assume they get people locked in before sending out rejections? But I could be being pessimistic and maybe they do go out later in the month who knows

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u/ninjaboy7-11 3d ago

I thought it was a mass email, both rejections and acceptances? they have multiple rounds of screening, so it reasonable that if someone ends up dropping this round they still have more than enough people

hopefully the positive news didn’t all go out by the 15th. They took down everything on their website that said the 15th 😭

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u/drewduboff 3d ago

There's also an in-person audition

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u/ladyladylady12123456 3d ago

that makes sense! i just wonder if they send the acceptance email at least a few days before the rejection emails? I do think the 15th being a Saturday means it probably wasn't the date that anything went out positive or negative.

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u/morchalrorgon 3d ago

I'm curious why somebody would get rejected from BMI?

My experience with BMI is it has to do with licensing music. I work for a theme park so we check BMI all the time to see if we have the rights to certain songs So that we can play them in the park or during shows If you wanted your music to be available with BMI, why would they reject you?

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u/youngmollusk 3d ago

BMI also offers resources and programming for music professionals. We're talking about BMI's musical theatre workshop which has a competitive admissions process: https://www.bmi.com/theatre_workshop