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What is the timeframe of 2019 Q1?
Normally 2019 Q1 should include all placements made between January 1 – March 31 of 2019. Your MSG placement should appear on the next BMI statement (issued in January).
Keep in mind sometimes there are delays (1 or 2 quarters) on payments.I love Q1 BMI statements because they always have a very nice bump thanks to ‘National Cable TV Association’ royalties,haha!
But even without this bump it was a much better statement than the previous one.
Biggest surprise was international royalties and specially UK (a low four digit payment from the lads there!).I hope everyone got a great one!
Hey maxquaini,
By “RF” do you mean RF sites such as Pond5,Audiojungle etc or RF loop libraries (Future Loops,Big Fish Audio etc)?I’ve sold only a few loops at RF sites while other track versions (DnB,No Lead,Sting,30) are selling very well there. Others might have different experience with loop sales though.
Also,it’s much easier for the customer/producer to buy a guitar loop pack from a RF loop library,than dealing with copyrights (in case you have the loops registered to your PRO and they have to buy the loops from you).
Working with a Loop Library like Future Loops,Loopmasters etc might be a more profitable avenue for you.They pay you an upfront fee and a cut from the sales of the pack (but i don’t know the numbers).
I’m wondering if any composers/producers are selling successfully loop packs at RF sites.Nope. Apart from a slightly similar rhythmic synth pattern (very common to trap music) and a percussion (snap),i’m hearing 2 different tracks.
Hip-Hop Jazz/Funk is a good idea. Several libraries have albums in this style.
You could also include jazzy elements to your dramedy (or hip-hop dramedy) productions.
Quirky electronica for ads could use some jazz/funk touch too.Check with the big libraries and listen to as many albums as you can.
Type in ‘jazz,funk,blues’ to the search engine of these libraries,might be surprised with your findings.@Lucky S: not sure if it’s true. BMI cue sheets seem to not reveal any other information other than your own placement’s details. I know ASCAP’s cue sheets have more information than that though.
7 pages of Amazon VOD hits paid $19 while 5 pages of Hulu hits paid $107.
Amazon is possibly the lowest paying streaming service.Another interesting thing is Facebook royalties.
On the BMI statement i received yesterday,it said ‘Facebook 2015’ and i had 9 tracks yielding $4.96. What’s interesting is they only had 1 stream that paid from $0.09 to $1.40. Sounds more promising than Amazon anyway.Imo, you should get some more tracks (8-10 or more) like this one and go for a higher tier library. 2 out of 3 sales on RF sites are upbeat,positive tunes. I don’t think this track would go far on RF sites but it’s good enough for various tv projects.
I could be wrong but that’s what i would i do with a track like this anyway.Also, the full album approach is your best bet with the big exclusive libraries. Always check the music releases of the libraries you want to work with thoroughly and you’ll get your answers 😉
+1 for your last sentence BEATSLINGER.
There are other things to worry about in this industry before we even start considering AI a possible future threat.
Very inspirational,to say the least!
It’s certainly very important to do alt versions for your RF tracks.
The previous 2 months i got 14 sales in one RF site and only 1(!) of them was the main version.The rest were mostly DnB,No Lead Melody and Sting versions.
My 2nd best selling track in the same site is a DnB version.
In another RF site,i got a No Lead Melody sale for a national tv commercial in Taiwan.All the alt versions Art mentioned above can get you sales in the RF libraries.
A little less than the previous one but international royalties went 40% up (thank you Finland!).
@BEATSLINGER: Nailed it in the head! BMG,Warner etc have signed deals with several small,boutique exclusive libraries this year and the NE ones want to be a part of this worldwide distribution party too. One canadian NE library i work with,created an exclusive sister-label in order to sign deals with the big boys overseas. I think this is a better option instead of turning the library from NE to completely exclusive.