Evan here, coming at you with a fresh perspective on what it's like to dip your toes into the world of music licensing. Buckle up, because today I'm giving you an exclusive peek at my own music licensing royalty statement from the last quarter of 2023. Yes, you read that right – my journey...
In December 2020, I earned about $190 from licensing my music on Pond 5 (affiliate link). Most of that money came from Christmas music. In this video, I talk about the importance of including holiday music in your music licensing portfolio and share a few tips on how to be smart...
Covid-19 has affected music licensing, like just about everything else this year. While it's not all doom and gloom, I have definitely experience a noticeable slow down in my music licensing earnings. Watch the video to see how bad it's gotten.
In this article I'm going to answer the question: how much do artists get paid on Spotify? This article is based both on my own experience as a musician with over 100,000 streams and on research I've conducted.
To start out, let me note that there are actually two different...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times! August was my best month of license on Pond 5, by a significant margin. September was one of the worst this year.
In August, I licensed 20 tracks for $267, which puts it an average price per sale of $13.50. Back in May I was averaging...
May 2017 was my best month licensing music. I earned more than $330 on my main licensing site, Pond 5. This is $30 more than my previous high, and I've basically earned more than $300 per month licensing music this entire year.
I think this success selling music online is due to three main...
Ok, I'm back again with the September and October stock music earnings reports. As I usually say - it was the best of times, it was the worst of times (aka - the industry is inconsistent).
So in September I smashed through my record high to earn $382 on Pond 5 licensing music. Then the...
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...
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...
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...
