[HELP PLEASE] What to price your beats
[HELP PLEASE] What to price your beats Posted on: 07.05.2013 by Cortney Chanson Hey everyone! I have produced some beats and there is this guy who wants to buy one.Since it's my very first beat I'm selling exclusively to him and to him only, I do not have ANY idea what to price. Can you guys help me? All help is appreciated! | |
| Cortney Chanson 07.05.2013 | Thank you so much! I have been believeing about getting my music copyrighted, but I honestly have no idea. Can you tell me how you got yours? Would really help! Thank you two both of you! |
| Sydney Lashway 07.05.2013 | I can sort of speak on this as this is how I got started making and selling hip-hop beats... Get your music copyrighted, register your act, and have a few template contracts drawn up. ^^^ This is really the only way to protect yourself, and your intellectual property. It's a lot easier to have a binding document than to have a verbal or "hand-shake" in terms of getting your due money. I've been burned soo many times from shady deals that weren't properly presided over. I also made some really good coin from people that were trustworthy and stood by their word. I've also had 2 albums of some of my best beats turn to skeletons sitting on a shelf because I couldn't re-sell them and were bound to a company who decided not to put out the material. All these are things you should believe about when having your documents drafted. Example, after how long of inactivity do the rights of the track revert back to you. Hope this helps. |
| Cortney Chanson 07.05.2013 | Thanks for the help man! I know what you mean. I just need to know how do i collect the royalties? Does he sign anything? is it a percentage of the sales he makes or is it just him saying produced by Anton Sherar and that's that? |
| Meaghan Machold 07.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Numbox
the music business has changed a bit where giving music out for free and earning $$ off the splash that it causes is way more successful than charging $$ for songs/beats in the first place. so lets say this guy uses ur beat for a song... what are the situations? 1. he makes a song with your beat for free. 50 people hear it on his facebook page, and then thats that. 2. he makes a song, it explodes, and gets 500,000 views on youtube, and people want to know where the beat came from. 3. you charge him $50 for the track, no one hears it. 4. you charge him $50 for the track, it explodes, he gets famous, and you dont collect on anything because he bought the beat. im not a master in this area of knowledge, so i could be wrong, but thats what I've known/heard. Diplo (Boss of Mad Decent label) talked about how his company almost folded because no one was buying their music. then he said fk it and put out everything for free and shit went viral and now look at him. |
| Cortney Chanson 07.05.2013 | How would i collect on royalties? I'm new to this |
| Meaghan Machold 07.05.2013 | id much rather give a beat away for free and collect on royalties than have a barrier to entry on my music. |
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