Would you believe that one of my worst written, worst produced, worst mixed songs - one that uses mainly loops - has generated over $200 and continues to sell?
I'm as shocked as you.
Update 5/22/18: I just earned $1,800 from this song on back end licensing!!
But it turns out there are at...
Here is my bi-monthly(ish) stock music earnings reports for January & December 2018. You can see my previous earnings reports here. Note, this report only deals with my earnings on one site, Pond 5. It's currently my main site, but I get bits and pieces of sales here and there from time...
Despite everything you may hear about the death of the music industry, there's still a huge need to pay taxes for musicians. Most people with day jobs receive a W2 tax form from their employers, and their taxes are pretty straight forward. But working musicians like us also get our income...
At the end of the day, music licensing is a numbers game. You need to produce one song a week. The more songs you have out there, the more likely you are to have the right song for the right client. Having more songs means your songs are more likely to be found by prospective clients, and...
Since some of you have asked, here is the gear I use, I’ve found everything on here to work well for me and would recommend all of it. After a lot of trial and error and money wasted on gear that I didn’t use, I’ve settled on the following selection of music equipment....
Holy smokes! I earned nearly $1,900 in back end performance royalties for the 3rd quarter of 2017!!! Now, I've been making about $300/mo through my licensing income through upfront sync fees, but the ability to basically QUADRUPLE my earnings through performance royalties is shocking.
(If you...
If you're a beginner looking to sell stock music online, you've probably narrowed down your options to AudioJungle vs. Pond 5. After years of selling stock music, I can confirm that these are the two best sites to sell music for beginners.
But I'd recommend that you only focus on one...
Today I want to talk about my 2018 first quarter BMI royalty payments. But let's begin in the recent past... in the 3rd quarter of the year I made about eighteen hundred dollars, off of mostly one song which was played in Romania.
A lot.
I don't know the source or anything like that. I just...
October 2018 was a pretty good month of music licensing for me. I earned more than $270 on Pond 5 (affiliate link) from my music licensing side hustle.
At the beginning of 2018, I took several of my best selling songs off of Pond 5 to put them exclusive on another site. And for most of...
It’s been a wild ride. Here’s my earnings reports for my music licensing side hustle on Pond 5 during December of 2018 and February 2019.
Over the years that I’ve been doing this, I’ve noticed that the business is highly cyclical, and this is the time of year when...
Over the past three years, I’ve gone from knowing nothing about the music business to building a music licensing side hustle that’s earned me over $10,000! I did all this part time, from the “comfort” of my studio (read: living room). And I have no connections, no...
Why It’s Hard
Being successful at licensing your music it tough, in part because you have to master multiple, distinct skill sets. You’ve got to be able to write good songs, perform them well, be good at recording and mixing, and you’ve got to understand the business back end.
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