1. Join Audiosparx.com and become part of Radiosparx.com.
They offer curated catalogs and play lists to a wide array of industries and vertical markets.
Royalties are much better than Spotify or Pandora!
2. Get familiar with the types of music libraries here.
3. Join some non-exclusive royalty free sites and/or music licensing libraries. Examples here.
4. If you are a band or artist create instrumental tracks of your songs.
5. If possible create a drums and bass version, no drums version, loops
and stings. The more variations, the more possibility of sales.
6. Create 30 second and 60 second versions of your music. Make sure
the last beat occurs at 29.5 seconds or 59.5 seconds and rings out. No
fade endings and can ring out past 30 or 60 seconds.
7. Learn how to create metadata to describe your music. See
(https://tagsgenerator.com and https://tagteamanalysis.com/blog/)
8. Pay attention to the music on a variety of TV shows such as reality, drama, news and commercials.
9. Make sure to join a performance rights organization (PRO) so you will get paid for performances of your music.
10. Get a free Tunesat account to track TV performances of your music.
11. Bonus Tip – Visit the free forums at Music Library Report!