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Four Ways to Get Your Music Licensed

It is said by some one isn’t in the artist music business until their work is actually licensed. This may not quite be the popular opinion these days since exposure and plays take more prevalence thanks to Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube, but the importance of music licensing cannot be stressed enough, especially when you look at the revenues a licensed music track can generate.

Just to give an idea, a licensed track can generate as much $3000 for an artist in exchange for its use in an advertisement, $500 for use in an indie film trailer, $60 for use in a wedding video, and $20 for use in a YouTube video. So even if the track does not get a million plays, through music licensing, it still gets exposure to a wider audience while providing some revenue for the artist at the same time.

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