Music Licensing Money

by Sebastian Samuels

It’s the truth but it happens over and over again. From past experience many musicians tend to be too scattered and all over the place and not very responsible with emails or calls. So if you want to make money from your music and you are very serious about it then be responsible and follow up with your clients.

If you list your tracks with music licensing companies make sure all your information is sent over to the clients. Any specific track information like writer info, publishing info, any moods, themes all of that good stuff include it along. For one reason it will make it easier on the licensing company to actually license your tracks and also if they have licenses for you but are missing certain information then they don’t have to follow up with you to obtain the additional necessary information. If that happens you might lose out on the licenses and I’m sure you don’t want to lose out on the chance of making money do you?

I can’t tell you how many times in the past we’ve had to obtain certain unprovided information from bands we had listed for licensing and many times we were unable to get in touch with them or were too late to reply back to us. Sometimes the email addresses or phone numbers would get disconnected and we would not be updated with current information from the band and oh well they lost out.

So I can’t stress how important it is when you are working with clients. It’s important to provide all information and keep updating the clients with all your current info. Because you never know when a music license opportunity might come up and you are missing in action and lose out on a 15 thousand dollar license.

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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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