That’s great news! Are you selling your music with any of the production music libraries that are affiliated with the prs? If you go to the prs website and search for “production music” and click on the “production music guide” There is a link to a big list of companies that you can send music to. I think your stuff would do really well there.
Hi Gavin, thanks! I actually wrote music for two libraries last year. I did an album for one of them, which so far has had a lot of use on some u.s. Food and travel channels, which I’ve heard pay very small royalties unfortunately! The other library seems to get good placements, but the music hasn’t been released yet. I’ve found the library process to be frustratingly slow, a long time before the music gets released, then even longer before any money comes through. We complain about 2 weeks queue on AJ but in comparison it’s amazing that we can write a piece of music and start making money on it in two weeks!
Have you written for any libraries yourself?
I just discovered those libraries a week or two ago so I am working on some music to send at the moment. I’m still learning how to produce, write and record music for synch so for me it’s a very long process indeed. Just trying to find my sound with acoustic guitar pieces for now and find my niche.
I think you have a great niche with the Gypsy Jazz and a great sound so I thought you should know about those other libraries. The PRS told me that we should get MCPS royalties if our music is place through them. It’s just a shame that the market is over saturated. I wish we only had to put our music in one place rather than on as many sites as we can find.
Yes, finding a niche is a good idea, offering something different in a saturated market. I’d also recommend researching libraries thoroughly to make sure they get decent amount of placements
Hello everyone,
Guys, how to you get the publisher’s share of both performance and mechanical royalties for your AJ tracks that are unpublished? You’re going through a publishing administrator like CD Baby or TuneCore? Is that the only way to go in order to make sure we will get these royalties?
Hey guys,
Don’t know if anyone is using this, but I thought I’d share:
It’s similar to tunesat, it scans broadcasters, identifies your track and communicates it directly to PRS. They proclaim to be the future of cue sheets, and since we have no control over who files them here in AudioJungle, the more tools we have the better.
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Yeah, they’ve been linked with PRS for a couple of years now, remember seeing something in their newsletter a while back.
@RedOctopus started a thread about it here;
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Hey Folks. Happy New Year!!!. Got a wee question. When you register your AJ tracks with the PRS, Do you tick the “yes” box in the categorising your work section when it asks you “TV, Radio or Cinema Advert/Ident?” on the first page under where you put the track duration? How do you complete the categorising your work section?
Thanks
Gavin
Sorry. Forget that. If you tick yes and try to continue, it asks you to put the name of a film or programme. I guess we should just leave those boxes at the “no” default.
Gavin
Hi Gavin - have you seen any returns from these? I’m thinking of joining Songtrust in order to register my AJ tracks.
Hi Alkis. I did receive some PRS royalties for 1 of my tracks. I got £200 the first time than not much at all after that for the same track. It was used on CNBC the tv channel. I just register my tracks with the PRS myself and include my CAE number in the composer field on Audiojungle. Who are Songtrust? I’ve never heard of them before…