Get Your Songs Placed In TV and Film
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Get Your Songs Placed In TV and Film
Getting your songs placed in Television shows and films can be a wonderful source of supplemental income for musicians, or even a full time income in many cases. These days there are endless opportunities to provide your music as background music for various mediums. From TV shows to movies to websites and video games, independent music is everywhere. The music industry, like all industries, is constantly changing and evolving. To survive, and eventually thrive, it’s imperative that you stay abreast of the where the music industry is headed and stay on top of where the demand is for your music.
Making a living as a musician can be an extremely challenging task, to say the least. But if you’re driven enough and are smart about what you’re doing, making a comfortable living is very attainable.
One of the most potentially lucrative avenues of making money as an independent musician is placing your music in media broadcasts like TV shows and films. And needless to say, it’s very exciting to hear music you wrote being broadcast into millions of people’s homes.
Getting Paid
For television shows, each time a song is used on air, a performance royalty is generated. The royalty amount varies based on a number of factors including the length of the segment as well as how prominently it is used. Each performance generates both a writer’s and publisher’s royalty. If you work with a music publisher you both essentially get half of the entire royalty. If you are able to place the music without the aid of a publisher you retain both the writer’s share and publisher’s share of the performance royalty. Again, the amount varies, but to give you an example the first song I had placed was in a scene that lasted about :55 seconds on a daytime drama in 2002. The royalty check I received for the placement was over $800.00! Not bad for less than a minute of airtime.
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Article by: Aaron Davidson
Categories: Music Promotion
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