BMI has launched a bonus payment system for the most-played songs on a range of digital services.

Starting with payments in Q1 2015 from Spotify and Rhapsody, BMI will apply a bonus 25% rate increase to the 20 most-played songs on the services. 

BMI has also stated that the bonus will be spread to other services in future distributions. Funding for the bonus payments will come from royalties generated from general licensing. The system's design and implementation was overseen by ...