Music producers can earn beyond selling beats by scoring podcasts and videocasts, placing tracks in TV and film through music supervisors, and distributing instrumentals on Spotify and Apple Music. Metro Boomin and ATL Jacob expanded into performing and ghostwriting. Register with SoundExchange to collect royalties.
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Hi guys, how are you? So there are other ways that you can make money as a producer. You don't just have to sell beats to artists. You can, um, score podcasts, or you can create theme music for podcasts or, um, videocasts. Like, people like myself that have a video channel, you can sell theme music to. Create like an intro for them and sell it to them. Or you can, um, get your music into TV and film. And to do that, you really just need a list of music supervisors or find a company that does music placements, and they may even be able to connect you to somebody in the film world who's looking for somebody to score an entire film. And with that, it's just basically creating music that has a different vibe and a different feel for the many different moods that occur in a film, right? Um, you can also do jingles and do advertising. There's any place where there's music, somebody has to create that music. And it doesn't always just have to be songs. You can create tracks, um, of just music to listen to. Um, I want to call them instrumentals, but really they're not. They're, they're songs, they're music. And then you can upload it. If it's more jazzy, you can upload it to the jazz section at the DSPs like Spotify or Apple or Tidal. You just need a distributor to do that. So you need like DistroKid or TuneCore, and you can upload for a flat fee. Um, if your music is a little bit more new age, then you can upload it as new age music. If it's a little bit more EDM or dance, you can upload it as that. Not every song has to have lyrics in order to qualify as a song. So you, you as the producer are your own artist. Right? Um, and then of course there's producers out there that have become artists by creating their own lyrics. You know, Metro Boomin has a great career as a producer, as a DJ, and as a rapper. Um, ATL Jacob started making music, and there's a ton of videos on YouTube that show his skill and proficiency at rapping. He also does ghostwriting for some of his clients that he produces for. So there are a lot of ways other than just selling tracks or selling beats or leasing beats that you can use to make money. You don't just have to be a beatmaker or producer in the traditional sense, um, and I'm sure there's a ton of ways that I haven't even covered here that you're thinking about right now where you could make music. So do whatever you need to do to make income. There's nothing wrong with that. And then make sure that if you're going to upload your music to the DSP platforms, make sure that you have some sort of an admin publishing deal in place so that you get paid for your, you know, your royalties for the music. Also, you want to be part of SoundExchange. You need to sign up at SoundExchange so that you get paid for music that streams. So there are other ways that you can do this besides just the traditional outlets. So do as much research as you can, find the other ways that are out there for you to make money with your music, and go for it. Okay, guys.
