Music Licensing Money

by Sebastian Samuels

I think if you want to get into the world of production music and music licensing in general then I would study the pros. Do anything and everything they are doing because most television, film productions are using their services and music in one way or another so it’s great to pay attention to what they are up to, what kind of music they are producing and releasing to the world of film, television and advertising production community.

If you are only recording music for licensing purposes then it’s time you knew of the big production music houses. The companies that most entertainment and media productions turn to to get their filler music if not all of their music for their projects. Most of these companies are owned by the 5 music companies and some are not and are still independent but they are huge corporations either way. Below are 5 you should definitely know about. The reason is because you need to study them.

1. Killer Tracks
2. APM
3. Extreme Music
4. Megatrax
5. FirstCom Music

You need to find these companies and register to their websites as users and start listening to their music. Go to their latest collections (the latest collections are the most modern and chicest collection of tracks. You need to do this so you can then do your own recordings inspired by these companies latest recordings. Because in reality if these companies are recording these tracks and licensing them then duh you are going to license your recordings if you create similar recordings right? It only makes sense.

These companies release collections as CDs and they’ll record an entire CD’s or a couple of CD’s worth ot tracks in a certain style and it’s best that you study these tracks to be inspired to create similar ones.

Always be sure to record long recordings and stay away from short little snippets of tracks. If your end goal is to list your recordings at music licensing companies then stick to recording longer cuts and not short things because the music licensing companies will not accept those short recordings they will only take the longer cuts.

If you are asking why I’m not writing about studying popular recordings by big artists then my answer to that is because these big production music companies are doing that. If your end result is to just record music for licensing purposes then you don’t need to study the popular recording artists study the folks that are studying them. Skip a step and you will be very successful at licensing your music and making some real money from them.

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