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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by Sebastian Samuels

That’s the truth, when it comes to licensing your music to make money from it not all clients are worth the time and effort. You must choose your clients wisely and stick to the ones that will make you the most money.

There are clients out there that will will nickle and dime you for everything. Discounting off of this and off of that and the end result is you put in so much of your precious time and what did you get out of it? 150 dollars and 6 hours of wasted time. Not worth it. When you calculate the time it boils down to 25 bucks an hour. When you’re desperate then maybe that’s worth it but you must choose your clients carefully and go after projects that will bring you 150 dollars in 15 minutes or 1000 dollars in 15 minutes. Those are the types of clients projects you should be involved with.

A good musician friend once was complaining to me about this client he had. The client was producing online videos for a big global event that was going to draw major views. He had mentioned he’d delivered almost a hundred tracks to this client and he already hadn’t selected any of the tracks to license yet. This was for a prior project. I was like that’s too much of a waste of time and you it’s time to move on from that client. My friends music was awesome and the highest quality recordings. I would have used his music. My friend also mentioned that this client is very cheap. When I heard how much money he was paying my friend, I was like dude just move on already he’s not worth your time but my friend continued trying to please this waste of a time client. The client would complain to my friend all the time that he only paid 100 bucks a cut at other companies or to other artists but my friend negotiated 150 bucks a cut.

So the client contacted my friend for this big project and he was needing about 20 cuts for these online videos of this big global event. My friend started delivering many of his tracks for these videos and the client kept complaining that none of the tracks are working. So my friend delivered many, many more and finally after delivering over a 150 tracks in a one month period this client picked one track and still complained that alot of the tracks are just not working for his videos.

When my friend was telling me this story I was like dude come on it’s not worth your time and energy to try and please this very cheap and picky client, move on already.

And you know what that’s the truth, move on. Just come right out and tell the guy it’s not working out and the relationship is just not going anywhere. So my friend finally told the guy to just keep the tracks he had sent him (by now it was in the ballpark of 300+ since he had delivered tracks for two different projects) and he will not deliver anymore. If he ever wanted to license any of the other cuts and that was fine but he wont be delivering any other tracks.

So be careful when choosing clients and go after the ones that are going to make you the most money when it comes to music licensing. Stay away from the clients that are really cheap and the clients that will even complain about a penny. Those are the worst ones to be working with!

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