[Tbone]

If you are in the music library business as a composer, then the top libraries, for instance: KPM, De Wolfe, Extreme and so on, will only accept your music exclusively. If you have excellent music and want to make more money from music libraries, in general you will need to go exclusive.

If you want to contact sups directly or any such thing, then sure, go non-exclusive with those tracks.

From my experience, I’ve never met anyone who is in non-exclusive libraries only who makes over 100k a year. On the other hand, I know of, and also personally know, various people making much more than that purely from exclusive libraries.

I have no problem with exclusivity provided the library a) pays me something up front to show they’re serious and/or b) has a good track record (you can find this out by contacting other composers on their roster etc).

[Tbone]

Do you know how much of that is from overseas royalties?

Well done by the way!

[Tbone]

There’s usually a way if you wanted. You could password restrict that area, and you could have people send in their top 3 libraries through a form. Anyway, it was just an idea.

A really simple thing which might be fun is to have a poll just asking, “which do you make more from: exclusive or non exclusive libraries?”

[Tbone]

Yea, for me the stories are useful, and so are the numbers. This whole idea for me was about incorporating peoples’ numbers more.

Don’t mind much either way. Up to Art.

I’m also keen to avoid what I posted above: “this library’s so great etc etc” but in fact no one’s made anything.

Lastly, it seems a couple have interpreted this idea as putting ratings on all the library entries and changing the site in a big way. I’m suggesting a small sub section like the polls where those who want to can comment on earnings for libraries. This would take nothing away from you but there are I’m sure others who would find it useful. As you said yourself, YMMV

[Tbone]

Sure, there’s no need to get rid of all the discussion at all. That’s not what I’m suggesting. This would be a small addition in some place, like the polls.

The flipside of this coin is that you also get libraries where everyone says how nice they are and how well it’s going, but then you find out that actually no one has made anything from that library. That’s an interesting example too.

I think there could be some way of incorporating a small section somewhere to do with earnings.

As a generalized example: if a composer has the same 200 varied tracks, tags and descriptions in libraries A, B and C, wouldn’t it be interesting to see how they do in each one?

[Tbone]

Number of tracks is a good point, but easy to address: just divide earnings by your total tracks with them.

Though thinking about it, it might still be interesting to see overall earnings regardless.

You could make it simpler by just having people name their top three earners… but it’s not so in depth and fun.

What do you reckon?

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