How Many Libraries

[B Minus]

Hi,

I was thinking it would be interesting to hear other people’s stats on this:

1. How many libraries do you have music with in total?

2. What % of your income comes from each one?

I’ll start off with my stats:

1. 6

2. 96% from one library, 2% from another, 2% from another, nothing from the other 3 yet. I expect library two to increase its share substantially this year.

[B Minus]

I forgot to say also to Art – maybe you could do an interesting poll on this like the ‘best month’ one in the sidebar? What do you think?

[Desire_Inspires]

That sounds about right. I make the majority of my royalties through one library. I have music in about 10 total, but only one provides the bulk of my royalties. 

For now, I am going to take a huge risk and put all of my eggs in one basket. I am going to submit about 30 cues to this one site. I know that I should diversify my catalog and spread my music. But I have a hard time submitting more music to companies that have only provided small trickles of income.

I have pretty much given up on submitting to new companies. I cannot lay blame to other companies. I do not know why I  not getting placements from some of the other companies I am with. But I just do not feel comfortable sending in more music.
 

[B Minus]

Oh yes, I forgot to add – how many tracks in each one would be very interesting too.

I have about 80 tracks in the main library, just put 30 with the second one. Going with them based on a personal recommendation from someone else who says they’ve done well there. And to be fair, I only have about 5-10 in all the other libraries.

[Art Munson]

@B Minus: Unfortunately The polling software does not allow for multiple questions. What singular question would you like?

[B Minus]

Hey Art – now I think about it, it would be really interesting to ask how many tracks people have for sale in total.

E.g:

Option 1: 0-10

2: 10-20

3: 20-50

4: 50-100

5: 100-150

6: 150-200

7: 200-500

8: 500+

What do you reckon?

[Del Smyth]

Yes, that is indeed really interesting.

[Art Munson]

It’s already in the poll: https://musiclibraryreport.com/polls/composer-poll/

[B Minus]

Oh wow, I hadn’t ever seen that.

How about the question: “What percent of your income comes from your top library?”

[Art Munson]

Okay, check it out: https://musiclibraryreport.com/polls-archive/

[MichaelL]

I know you can’t to compound questions, but it would be interesting to see how income and number of tracks correlate. For example, does everyone making 100K have 500+ tracks?

[B Minus]

Heya,

I did the poll before that question, and it now doesn’t let me answer the new question. Any way around this – guessing it affects others too?

[Art Munson]

@B Minus. I just tried it here and no problem. Answering one poll does not prevent you from answering the others. Try clearing your cache and cookies or another browser.

Art

[B Minus]

Thanks, got it working now.

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