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I’m very interested to know what any of your best selling genres have been this past year. Have you seen any changes? Are you consistently selling the same tracks etc.
Depends on the library but the most consistent for me has been Hip Hop, on one particular site, generally just one particular track. Probably not really authentic Hip Hop but has the vibe. MichaelL likes to point out that many clients look for genre “lite” so this would most likely fall into that category.
I second what Art said..I have a hip hop/funk type track that’s got me like a dozen placements this year…as soon as I find the time i’m going to bang out a few more with that same feel..Jay
Like Gary, I have a retro sounding piece that is doing well this year (a “Bo Diddley” type of groove). On the other side of things I have an African instrumental that is popular.
I’ve got a simple bluegrass jam I wrote about 3 years ago that’s been getting a lot of play. It’s on 3 different cable shows so far. My Tunsat report shows that it gets played at least twice a day. Anywhere from 6 seconds to 43 seconds.
For me it’s the guitar based tracks also, mostly classic rock and hard rock. One in particular that sounds a little like Deep Purple (on “Burn”) has been in several episodes.
For me it has certainly been Rock and Vintage Punk but definitely Guitar Rock
I’ve been working with production music libraries for years and my well-selling tracks are ambient and ethnic. They are sold more then other genre of tracks and every tracks are sold as royalty free or some bigger license. It seems that there are no tracks yet that are sold for broadcast.
Generic, energetic rock guitar-based… Seems like the cable reality shows (which are, of course, the highest quality in TV programming!) always use those.
Maybe next would be world music.
That being said, my catalog is not large and therefore my stats may not be reflective of anything.
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Interesting, a little bit of everything it seems!
As far as RF sites go, I have a quirky ukulele piece that has done very well. Guitar rock has dominated for me on the broadcast end as well.
The ukulele cue also made it onto a Steve Jobs documentary, I was really happy about that.
Can I bump this and ask members the same thing for the first quarter of 2014? Are guitar based instrumentals still doing well? What in general is in demand these days?
Depends on what RF site it is but a little of everything with a slant towards guitar.
Ethnic is deffo where its at. I have made literally a whole heap of dough this year alone from my contemporary middle eastern bodhran tracks. What I did was add a cutting edge hiphop beat – thus bringing them bang up to 21st century prod values. Ergo…just a mass of doc war usage. I also do chinese and med stuff to which are great as the travel genre is literally massive.