Has anyone ever put their songs on tunecore or CDBaby? Did it work out for you? Has anybody (who has not already gotten famous by conventional methods) make decent money? What are the pros and cons? Also, if I paid a recording studio to create the music for a song (I sang the song into a tape recorder and sent it to them), I shouldn’t owe them anything else, right b/c that was a “work for hire”?
You have to drive customers to whatever ‘store’ your product is in. If no one is coming to that store, no one is aware of it, no one is sampling the product so they can decide whether to buy it, it doesn’t matter what store it is.
How will you drive customers to your store? Are they going to hear you live? On the radio? On TV? On a TV or movie soundtrack?
If they don’t know you exist the odds of them somehow stumbling upon your site are remote.
If you paid for a demo there was probably some kind of ‘contract’ between you and the studio. It may be in writing. It may be oral. You need to find out what that contract says. Are you allowed to pitch the song to artists or publishers or music libraries or music directors? Can you have it played on the radio? Can you sell copies of it? You need to know. Your contract should tell you. If not, communicate with the studio and see what they say. Some ‘studios’ make ‘demo’s,’ ‘demonstration recordings’ and you agree to give them a percentage of any earnings from the song. You need to know what your contract allows and what it prohibits. Unless you already have a contract, or communications with the studio that you can cite as laying out what the contractual agreement is, you may need to start from scratch and get it written, and signed.
There will always be another song to be written. Someone will write it. Why not you? http://www.garyeandrews.com
I’ve used both of them. Tune core is hard to get to because it only accepts certain browsers. I did slightly better on there than on cdbaby. But very few people search for new songs on the music web sites (where they distribute the music}. They usually go on them when they want to download a specific song.
I’d do music licensing if I were you. You might make money that way. Good luck.
Sylvia
