Yung City Needs Beats – Submit Beats directly to the artist!
Yung City has put the word out about a new album on the way in 2010 called “Gangsta And Gentlemen.” He’s also put the word out for producers to send beats directly to:
rawmusic_inc@yahoo.com
Get on your grind and make it happen for yourself. Send in you hottest joints. You can check out his style on his myspace:
Joe Scudda calls for beats – send your heaters!
Joe Scudda, for those who don’t know, is down with 9th Wonder so don’t send no bullshit on this one.
Once again TheBeatBusiness.com has the hookup.
Send beats direct to Joe Scudda via >>> theauthentic@gmail.com
Submit beats that you know will stand up on a pro level if you’re serious. You really don’t want to go head up against 9th Wonder with anything but the hotness. Believe that.
4 Reasons Why Your Beats Aren’t Selling
If you’ve never actually sold a beat, but want to, this article is for you. In it, I’m going to break down the 4 main reasons for your lack of success and the steps you can take to overcome them.
Let’s get right to it. As I said, there are four main reasons why you haven’t been able to sell a beat:
1. Your beats aren’t good enough.
This one is tough to swallow but it’s real for a lot of aspiring producers. You need a certain skill level if you expect people to pay to use your music. While there is a strong market for beats made by amateurs, the beat still has to be hot. Bottom line, nobody buys garbage beats.
Now what can you do about it? Three things: practice, get feedback, and practice some more. You can’t just make beats in your studio and keep them on your hard drive. Hit the forums like futureproducers.com or others and ask for feedback on your beats. Take that feedback and practice some more.
Compare your mixes to pro beats in your genre and don’t stop this cycle to the feedback from people you don’t know is positive. That’s the true test.
2. You are not pitching your beats to the right buyers.
If you’re trying to get your first sale by pitching to major label artists, you’re not pitching to the right buyers. Unless you already have major label connections, getting a major label placement without ever having sold a beat is like hitting the lottery.
Instead of pitching to majors right at the start, understand that there are much better ways for you to get your first beat sold. Work the unsigned market. Build your clientele and body of work before moving up from there.
3. Your prices are too high or to low.
For an unproven producer, beats sell (or get licensed) for $25 to $250 in the unsigned/independent market. There are exceptions to these numbers but on average, that’s what you can expect.
To fix this problem, study the market on the beat sites like soundclick.com to compare your product and pricing strategy to the competition. If the sound and price are right and you pitch to enough potential customers, it’s simply a matter of time before you make your first sale.
4. You don’t have your business in order.
By this I mean you don’t have answers to the questions artists or collaborators will ask about copyright, contracts, royalties, publishing, etc. In most cases, artists look to you, the producer, to be the expert on all the legal details.
If you don’t know the answers to who owns what and what if this or that happens, then some people will not do business with you for fear of getting ripped off.
Take care of this issue BEFORE it causes your any real problems. Learn how money is made and paid to producers and artists before engaging in the business of selling beats. On this point, you can’t cut corners. If you’re not willing to run your business, someone else will – to their advantage.
Work through these for main obstacles, do some smart marketing, and you will get paid for your beats.
3 Things All Successful Music Producers Must Have To Sell Beats
You know what you want – to get paid as a music producer selling beats – but you don’t know how you’ll reach that goal. You need three things. Three things that will guarantee you success at some level no matter what happens along the way. With these three things, you immediately separate yourself from the dreamers and talkers. You can read all the articles, blogs, or books you want about how to sell beats – and those are great – but you still need these three things. Without them, all the steps in the world won’t get you anywhere.
1. Initiative. In this situation, initiative is simply the action. I consider initiative to be a critical ingredient in obtaining any goal. You can the exact steps to reach your goal of selling beats laid out for you but if you don’t take the action, you lose. Plain and simple. One thing to mention here is that initiative is not ambition or anything like it. Ambition is like a form of desire – without the action. Everybody’s got some measure of ambition, a lot less have the initiative to take action on that desire.
2. A plan. Initiative or action can be wasted if it’s not applied to some sort of plan. Your plan adds focus to that action. You have a starting point, an end goal in mind, the initiative to get moving, and with a plan you have direction. Now here is where many get tripped up by planning and not acting on that plan. Plans are never perfect. You get to work on your plan and learn along the way. You Take what you learn and modify your plan but you don’t abandon your plan. Without it you risk spinning your wheels and not getting any closer to that end goal you’ve set for yourself.
3. Persistence. Over time, while taking focused action against your plan, you will hit snags and roadblocks. You may even at times have to change your entire goal. What you can’t do is quit. With an open mind, a strong enough desire, and the initiative to go for it, you can’t lose. The only way you can lose is if you give up. It’s impossible to fail if you take focused action and adjust along the way for whatever life throws at you. Simply keep moving forward and don’t give up.
With these three things you can sell beats or work toward any other goal you may have. Get started, get focused, and keep stepping.
How To Sell Beats Using 3 Marketing Methods Most Producers Won’t
As an aspiring hip hop producer, you face the same challenge as your up and coming peers: how to sell beats against so much competition? The answer is to find ways to stand out from the crowd. This article tells you how.
Just to get everyone on the same page before we start, there’s a bare minimum you need to do to sell beats: You need good music, you need to connect potential clients, you need to close the deal (hopefully in writing,) and you need to get paid. The reality is that every hip hop producer out there is trying to accomplish these same things and most of them never reach the “get paid” part.
Most aspiring hip hop producers create a lot of music, some of it good, and then they post it to sites like Soundclick and hope the checks start rolling in. No real marketing or promotion of any kind – just half baked attempts to connect with clients by sending out emails or posting comments like “check out my beats!” on FutureProducers.com. That little effort won’t cut it. I’ve tried and failed along with every other producer starting out. Then I learned 3 ways to take things to the next level:
1) Build your own beat site. This step alone puts you head and shoulders above the competition because visitors to your site will only hear your music. There’s no chance of them clicking on the next producers link and buying someone else’s beat. On top of that, when you promote your own site, you can connect with those visitors how ever you want. You can give beats away, you can charge premium prices, or you can trade beats for email addresses to build a customer database. Use simple tools like Wordpress and e-junkie.com to build the site and process orders.
2) Release albums of your beats on iTunes and other digital distribution stores. There’s no reason to not release your albums on iTunes using Tunecore or CD Baby or a similar service. How many producers do this? Not enough. And once you do you place yourself in another league. You stop waiting for labels or artists and start connecting directly with your fans, which is the way of the new music business.
3) Make videos. Here’s a tip – YouTube is now the second largest search property behind Google. If you can’t be found on YouTube, your missing connections with potential fans and clients. Think about it, scenes of you walking down the street while your beat is playing is a video. A camera pointed out of you car window while your beat is playing is a video. A slide show of pictures of your of your city with the beat playing is a video. Anything goes. Use a site like Animoto.com to simply load up some pictures and your beat and let them create a video for you. You can also sell videos on iTunes so there’s more potential income.
VERY FEW producers are taking these three steps. Step up and get serious about your business. Not only will you position yourself to sell beats, you’re also showing the industry that you’re running a business and not just making beats with no idea how to sell them.
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