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How To Make A Music Composer Website

Creating a music composer website is a great way to showcase your abilities through your past work and showreel. It also creates a presence for you online and helps to build a reputation, as well as allowing potential clients to contact you directly. Not to mention the ability to offer licensing and sales of your music straight from your own website. Overall you want to show that you have delivered high quality work and that you are easy to work with.

If you’ve been wondering, “how do I create my own music website?”, you’re in the right place. In this article we’ll look at some of the most popular platforms to create a website for your music.

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Work For Hire Deals Can Cost Composers

Buyout Deals

Buyout deals, sometimes known as a composer work for hire agreement or contract, involve an up front payment to the composer, for which the company owns 100% of future license fee income as well as the usual 50% of performance (PRO) royalties. The writer would retain their 50% “writer’s share” of performance royalties, but not in all cases as we’ll see below.

Work for hire contracts

Generally the up front payments that we have seen range from $100 to $1,000 per track. Even the top end of this could be considered very low. As an example, imagine the company sells 50 licenses over the next 2 years for this track, with each license costing $50. (Even these numbers are conservative). The company would make 50 x $50 = $2,500 in license revenue, and the composer would get $0, since they signed away their rights to license income in the work for hire contract. Now imagine that goes on for another 30 years… And imagine that all the licenses are for corporate training videos with no performance royalties. A truly terrible situation for the composer.

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Using Tunesat and Numerator to Collect US Ad Royalties

Have you ever wondered how to track US commercials which are using your music? And how to make sure you receive royalties for them? There are steps you can take to maximize your chances of receiving royalties from US commercials. Once you know how, it’s not as complicated as it might seem. Read on below for how we do this with TuneSat and Numerator.

You will need to use two services for this:

  • TuneSat, or a similar tracking technology – Check out their service here
    This is one of various digital fingerprinting services where you can upload your music for the technology to track its usage. While not perfect, it is very useful and can show you where your music is airing. In fact, you can see airings not just in the US, but also in many other countries as well, e.g. Europe. Competitors include BMAT and Trqk.
  • Vivvix (also known as Numerator or, previously, Competitrack) – https://www.numerator.com
    These are market research or advertising intelligence companies. For reasons beyond the author of this article, PROs in the US (i.e. ASCAP, BMI and SESAC) use their data to record and pay out royalties for music in US commercials. Specifically, the PRO will need what is called an ‘ad code’ from Vivvix / Numerator. Each commercial in the US has an ad code. This includes different versions of similar ads from the same company, running at the same time. US PROs use the ad codes to track airings and to pay out royalties.
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How to Write Production Music

Production music, also known as library music, is music that is created specifically for use in various types of media, such as TV shows, films and commercials. Writing production music requires a different approach than writing music for personal use or for live performance. This is because it needs to fit the mood, tone, and pacing of the visual content it is accompanying. In this article, we will discuss some key elements and techniques to consider when writing production music.

Writing Production Music

Understand Your Target Usage

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