Selling royalty free music can be a great way for composers to make some extra cash with their music. There are quite a few websites available that allow you to sell your music on their site. In this article I’m going to go over the website Productiontrax.com.
Productiontrax was one of the first websites I uploaded my music to. My first few royalty free music sales were made on Productiontrax and I would recommend it to any composer. Productiontrax allows anyone to make an account and upload music. There is no review process for your music so you can upload it and make it available for selling in minutes. Some may view this as a disadvantage because there is more potential for less quality in the music with no review process like other websites, but most of the music I have listened to on Productiontrax has been quality music.
The site itself is pretty nice. In fact recently they have made a lot of changes to make it even nicer. It is easy to get around the site and the contributor control panel is easy to work with. There is a graph that shows how many track views you have been getting each day. The only downside here is that you don’t know which tracks are getting viewed. As far as track exposure goes, I have around 60 tracks on the site and usually get anywhere from 3-20 views a day. However it is not unusual for that to spike up to around 30-40 some days. So it seems like there is good exposure for your music compared to some other sites.
When you make a sale with Productiontrax, you get 65% of the money. This is a better deal than most royalty free music sites where you get 50%. You can also set the prices for your music, which is a feature that some websites don't offer. There are two different options for someone who is buying your music. They can download a commercial or private license. You can set the price for both, and get a lot more money from selling a commercial license. In fact, most of my sales have been commercial licenses.
My sales have not always been consistent with Productiontrax, and I am not sure how well other composers are doing because you can't see how many sales other people are getting, but I think it is definitely worth putting music on there.
Overall I would say that Productiontrax is a good website that gives composers control over their music. Check it out by clicking here.
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