Music Licensing Money

by Aaron Davison

When you start licensing your music it’s important that you build up a sizeable catalog of songs in order to create a significant stream of revenue. Depending on what your financial goals are, music licensing can be either a fun, part time thing that you pursue and make a little money from on the side. Or, it can turn into a very substantial form of revenue in either the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

They key to reaching the latter goal is to build up your catalog of songs as large as possible in order to plant as many seeds as possible. For example, I work with a publisher and each year I add new songs into my catalog of music that my publisher represents. The old songs continued to get marketed and placed and the new songs simply go into the pipeline and eventually end up generating revenue as well. It grows exponentially over time. In the beginning maybe you’ll only license say a handful of songs per year. But if you continue that each year eventually you’ll create a major source of money from your music.

And of course one of the coolest things about the music licensing business is there really is no barrier of entry in terms of your age, image, etc. If you write well produced, catchy and stylistically relevant songs, you’re in! Or at least you can get in.

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by Sebastian Samuels

Clients love to use known tracks temporarily in their projects thinking they can afford to license it for the final projects. This is known as a temp track. Often times though they can’t afford it so they have to scramble around and find something that sounds like what they are trying to replace and often times they have ‘temp track love” and nothing works as good as what they are using temporarily.

It’s a good idea to create tracks that are similar to other recordings. Just remember that you don’t want to copy a track or make it sound so similar that you cross the line and the remake is considered a cover or a copy. But most of the time clients to want to get a track that sounds like something well known or recognized as they want their brand associated with a well known recording. Keep in mind to make your recordings longer as well as corporate clients do want longer cuts and 30 second and 60 second cuts usually don’t work for them. Longer pieces work better for them and over 2 minutes is a good idea often and 3+ minutes is perfect for corporate videos and animations.

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