Getting started in
the music licensing business can be a slow and painful process. In the beginning, there is a lot of leg work
required to get started and usually success doesn't come quickly. Unlike playing music live where you get on
stage and get immediate gratification in the form of applause, adulation and
hopefully money at the end of the night, music licensing is a long term
process. There are forms to fill out,
music to upload, different versions of your songs to mix, phone calls to make
and on and on.
So why pursue
licensing? Well unlike performing where
you are paid once and that's it, with music
licensing you can potentially get paid over and over for the same
song. I have songs that I wrote over ten
years ago that I still get regular performance royalty checks for. Several shows have purchased licenses for
these songs and they use them every year and every year I continue to collect
royalty checks over and over. I don't do
anything at all at this point to earn this money. This is really the beauty of music licensing,
the ability to earn income from your music passively.
To be honest, I enjoy
playing music live much more than I do licensing my music. Licensing my music doesn't excite me in the
same way that getting up on stage and playing in front of a live audience
does. Although it is exciting to hear
your music on television, the whole process is much slower and much more drawn
out. But from a purely business
standpoint, licensing makes more sense.
I can only play so many shows and I can only play one show at a
time. But with licensing I can continue
to write new songs and license them at the same time that my existing catalog
earns me income.
When I was younger,
what really drew me towards making and performing music was the idea of playing
in front of people and the adrenaline rush that goes along with that. And that still is what I enjoy the most. But I've gotten smarter about the business
side of making music as I've gotten older and give more and more thought about
how to maximize the revenue I make from music. It takes time to start seeing
substantial money from licensing, but it's possible and once you start seeing
results, it makes all the effort you have to put in initially worth it.
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The A To Z Of Music Licensing
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