How to Make Money With Music Online - Sell Music Online

We need to define our skills. What were good at and what we can do. By doing this we have a better chance to focus on the right ways we can monetize going forward.

In this section we breakdown a few way in which 1 piece of work can work for us in multiple different ways.

In this section we discover what Ad partners are and how they can benefit us as we progress along with making use of our assets we create.

Steve "Urchin" Wilson is a veteran of the music and Entertainment Industry, having formerly worked as a studio manager, artiste manager, nightclub promoter and a record executive. He has spent the last 19 years touring the world with Grammy award winning Reggae Artist and legendary singer Sean Paul.

Tiffany Lynn Alvord is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She has been cited as one of YouTube's first "home-grown celebrities"

tiffany answers for us both, Do you think it's still a good time to put out youtube content? and How would she go about it if she started now?

Here we discovered how to monetize on soundcloud without having a major label endorsement.

Lets learn about collecting royalties, An why we should be registering our work.

ICE is the result of a joint venture between PRS for Music, STIM and GEMA with the collective aim of developing the world’s first integrated music copyright, licensing and processing hub, encouraging copyright data accuracy, aggregation of repertoires for multi-territory licences and the elimination of parallel processing against incompatible works databases.

ICE brings a unique offering to customers, not currently met elsewhere. It offers a flexible suite of services and has been developed from best-in-class technologies that will deliver unparalleled economies of scale, speed, efficiency, accuracy and business intelligence reporting. It is the fruition of a partnership that harnesses years of combined experience in collective management and servicing, which has shaped the digital market from the outset.

The benefits will be wide reaching, offering solutions to all rightsholders. The economies of scale and increased efficiencies will also deliver cost saving benefits to all. The hub offers a potential transformative benefit to new and smaller music repertoires as inclusion into the Core licence enables the potential for greater access to Digital Service Providers (DSPs).

What type of music uses does the deal cover?

The deal covers PRS for Music controlled repertoire contained in videos streamed via YouTube across 130 territories. This covers a range of music uses including music videos, lyric videos, fan-uploaded videos, vlogs, concert videos TV-style content that has music in the background and YouTube’s new subscription services, YouTube Music and YouTube Music Premium.

Will I get paid for every single stream on YouTube?

Due to the very high volume of tracks streamed, many of which have been streamed only a few times, and the relatively low value per stream, it is not possible to make distributions where a video using music has been played only a few times. We will also need to rely on the usage data provided by YouTube.

Initially, we will identify music in videos with over 2,000 streams or at least $2 in revenue value. Distributions will be made in accordance with our distribution policy.

How to best report ISRC and other aspects on youtube videos that perhaps use your music but its not detected. Backing track for example.

By ‘live streaming’, we mean when music is played live by a performer to an audience via an online platform.
By ‘streaming’ we mean the broader term for when music is played on demand online by an audience at any point but isn’t necessarily being played live. Streaming services include Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube.

The following online platforms capable of live streaming are licensed and managed by our partner ICE:

• Facebook

• Instagram (owned by Facebook)

• YouTube

• TWITCH (Amazon)

If you’re a writer member, this means you might be eligible for royalties if your music is played online on these platforms, including via live streaming.

A share split explains how the royalties will be distributed between all interested parties. As an example, imagine a work has two writers, A and B, and is published by C. PRS and MCPS will assume, unless otherwise advised, that A and B have agreed to share the royalties equally, giving them 25 percent each and C, the remaining 50 percent.

When you register a work with us, you add your agreed share for performance if you're a PRS member, and mechanical royalties if you're a member of MCPS. Your co-writer will then add their share. So if this work was to be registered today, both A and B would need to register the song individually and add their 25 percent at the point of registration.

PRS and MCPS

PRS for Music is the home of the Performing Right Society (PRS) and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS).

PRS pay royalties to our members when their works are:

• broadcast on TV or radio

• performed or played in public, whether live or through a recording

• streamed or downloaded

MCPS pay royalties to their members when their music is:

• copied as physical products, such as CDs and DVDs

• streamed or downloaded

• used in TV, film or radio

In some cases, money is collected jointly then split between PRS and MCPS.

Streaming music is growing at a rate never like before. Here we learn how you can make sure you are available on the platforms currently at the front of the music industry.

Making use of our multi assets and other monetization routes we look at how to drive that base unto our streaming sources too.

Downloads have not gone away. They just are no longer the way the mass market consumes music, that doesn't mean you should ignore the potential.

If you an artist or a band, You are also a brand. You more than likely have a band t-shirt. Well you can absolutely have your own as well. And you should, Depending on what else your doing as an artist.

Remember how one song was multiple assets, This is one way to capitalize on your scrapped track creation, recordings or even releases.

No doubt you have seen an instrumental edit somewhere, But why?

You can get paid for people using your music on youtube? Yup. Oh and livestreams, TV, film, games and more.

Samantha Harvey is a British pop singer and songwriter currently signed to Virgin EMI Records in the UK and Capitol Records in the US. She initially gained a following by posting covers of popular songs on her YouTube channel. Her independently released 2017 single, "Forgive Forget," peaked at number 48 on the UK Singles Chart. She released her first major label single, "Please," in February 2018. She followed that with her major label debut EP, also titled Please, in March 2018.

Sam here explains how she went from wedding singer to signed to Virgin EMI by using the power of social media and video.

The original way musicians made a living. #ModernVintage

Francisco-based producer, DJ ill.Gates has had a long and lavish career in music. DJing since his earliest teenage years, .ill Gate real name Dylan has established a global fan base and enjoys an increasing reputation as dynamic, definitive and decisive EDM artist. ill.Gates is rising steadily up the ranks through his many collaborate releases with such industry heavyweights as Datsik, Bassnectar, Ana Sia, Opiuo, T.O.B., Vibesquad, Mimosa and more.

Dylan will breakdown for us the route into breaking out as a unknown DJ.

Wait so you get sponsored to make music? Yup.

And those sponsors that paid you to make music, They pay you again for sales from making music? Yup totally.

Need a loan for a bigger idea than normal? Why not ask everyone to pitch in a little in advance instead.

That thing you do really well for yourself that took years to learn, Well other people might want you to do it for them.

Great at writing pop songs? There's a job for you doing it and your own music can be the CV.

Shhhhh. You saw nothing.

Teach someone else part of the skill sets your already using.

No really a book. check out the example!

Get paid to blog about the music your making? Yup.

Lets talk about it, Literally.

One thing many assets remember. Now the experience that became a book and a podcast is now an audio book. An ever growing market.

blogging to keep building your own personal ecosystem.

Dodge & Fuski, These guys are on the button. Since the beginning of 2011, the dubstep and drumstep duo racked up over 3 million views on Youtube and been championed by Radio 1, 1 Xtra, and the world’s leading YouTube dubstep channel UKF.

I posed a simple question, Keep it Indie or seek a label?

Rob opts for label support, But it's important to note not exclusivity!