How to Make Money with Royalty Free Music

Author: Richa Jha

If you have a passion for music, then you can make easy cash by selling stock sound tracks online.

In simple terms, royalty free music refers to a kind of music license that allows anybody to purchase the license and use an audio track as per his/her use. You can use it without any charge of royalties or fear of getting sued for copyright infringement.

Some Misconceptions

  1. Many people have a misconception that royalty free music means that the mp3 songs or any audio track they want is free of cost. It is instead a form of licensing model under which a composer mutually agrees to receive a one-time payment from either producers or online music library sites (on which they upload their soundtracks)
  2. Royalty free music is different than Needle Drop or Rights Managed. Under Needle Drop Music, the licensing party is allowed to use a part of a music piece per occasion. For instance, bollywood songs byte at the beginning and at the end of a video clip would count as two needle drops and would need to be given two time fees (two needle-fees).

Where Can You Sell?

  • Production Companies
  • Audio-Video Marketers
  • Independent Producers
  • No matter what your project, royalty free music songs are great for their versatility including their price range, that varies between $30 to $100 or more. Online sites such as Audio jungle and Audio socket give upto 60% money to the artists for the track and 40% for the royalties.
  • Some online sites even distinguish between exclusive and non-exclusive content and pay the share accordingly. Some other places where you can compose your Mp3 music track including sound effects and sell, are the following:

Other variations

Another way to monetize your free music on online music sites are included here:

  • YouTube – Everyone knows about social networking site called YouTube. You can easily monetize your popular music songs on it by either having a Content ID or buying YouTube Red or becoming YouTube Partner
  • Local Physical Retailers – Although CDs have lost their importance today due to digital online music, yet many local area stores will still buy your CDs or vinyl records for some money
  • Spotify Playlists – By making it through to some music playlists on Spotify, you can easily add up about $50 or more
  • Free music sites – Some online sites allow you to upload your original song and access their monetize program which is based on the number of plays. For instance, the Indian social networking site, Sabakuch Music offers 0.40 paisa per play to the user
  • Synch Licensing – When music and pictures are ‘’synchronized’’ (like in a movie), it is called as ‘’synch’’. If a person writes a son and doesn’t sell the rights, he/she is a publisher. If he/she owns the recording, then it becomes the copyright holding of theirs. In such a case a person would receive both royalties

In the end, almost every other person on the internet uses royalty free music. Whether you are a podcaster or an audiophile, you too can benefit from it.

Learn more about royalty free mp3 songs and get access to all songs, visit https://sabakuch.com/music/