Getting Paid

We pay out sales commissions on an automatic schedule as detailed on our fees & commissions page. Currently, all payments are sent out via PayPal masspay. This means that you need to keep a current PayPal email address on file with us where you would like to receive those payments.

Note: If you are unfamiliar with how PayPal works, it's very simple... you create an account at PayPal with your email address, enter your bank information, and Paypal will transfer your earnings directly into your bank account. For more information, read the article: How do I get paid? on Paypal.

Tax Information

By law, we are also required to collect certain personal information from our sellers for tax reporting purposes. If you do not wish to claim your earnings using your social security ID, you may choose to apply for a Tax ID for your business with the IRS. Either way, we need to collect this tax information from you.

Note: This information only applies to sellers within the United States.

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click “Edit Account”
• Click “Tax Information”

Charts System & Rankings

The Beat Brokerz charts are the primary and most obvious way for buyers to begin exploring beats on our site, and get "recommendations" as to what's new and what's trending in the market. It's the first, and most effective line of promotion that we have for beats. Therefore, many of our promotional packages are centered around it.

The primary role of our charts is to "suggest" beats to buyers, in the form of ranked lists, being driven by the marketing value of those beats. In other words, we try to suggest beats to buyers that have the best opportunity to sell.

How Beats Are Ranked

Firstly, all of our primary charts are designed to expose a beat from every active producer on our site before we begin to rank multiple beats from any single producer. This helps us to maximize the exposure of our whole producer base to our buying audience. It also helps producers to maintain a high ranking beat in the charts.

Secondly, every sub-genre chart on the site will contain a different set of top ranking beats which does not overlap with any other chart in the system (including the main chart). Again... for the purpose of exposure.

Of course, we can't give away the exact details of how we calculate our rankings since it's sort of a trade secret. But we can at least guide you in how it all comes together.

Current And Past Sales

There is no better indicator that a piece of music has the potential to sell, than if somebody buys it! Of course, how frequently it gets sold, how many different people it goes out to, and how much it sells for are also all important indicators.

Some producers sell on other platforms as well as Beat Brokerz, which is fine with us. But if you decide to funnel your sales through your Beat Brokerz store, then there may be some excellent chart ranking benefits for you which just might improve your sales even further. We're just saying...

Recent Promotions

When you run feature promotions on a piece of your music on Beat Brokerz, we recognize your investment into your music as a strong indicator that it has earning potential. Otherwise, why would you be paying to promote it... right?

When we rank beats, we look at how much has been invested into them recently in the form of feature promotions. So besides the benefit of the feature itself, running a feature promotion(s) on your beats gives extra ranking power in the charts for days to come.

Buyer Engagement

Another way we analyze marketing value of music, is by the way people interact with it. Watching the patterns of how people interact with your music gives us a better idea of how engaging it is. It's no secret to us that engagement is a metric which may not have a specific dollar value, but it leads to future sales which definitely have a dollar value!

Encouraging people to interact with your music on Beat Brokerz will have a lasting effect on your rankings in our charts. Although engagement is not as powerful as sales and promotion, it provides a continual bump to your rankings across the board. Do you have your Facebook, Twitter, Soundclick, and other social accounts linked up yet? Hint. Hint.

Producer Reputation

Our assessment of producer reputation is mostly robotic. It mostly affects your producer ranking. We crunch a bunch of numbers and call it your "reputation". This number gives us an indicator as to the quality of your catalog as a whole. We look mainly at the number of beats you have available, the number of purchase options you offer, how many of your beats have high definition artwork (yeah, we're superficial), how many track outs you offer, if your beat descriptions are actually "descriptive", and if you offer discounts.

Tagged Audio & Free Downloads

When you upload beats to your Beat Brokerz catalog, we require you to upload "tagged" versions of your music which will be streamed from the site and made available for free download. All music featured in the Beat Brokerz marketplace is available for free download.

Free downloads are your digital business card. It's true, some people may take your business card and pencil their name on it because they are too cheap to buy their own. But then, that's just one more person handing out your business card. Your goal is to get your business card into the hands of as many serious buyers as possible. When serious buyers show up, do you really want them going home without your business card?

We recommend you render your tagged mp3's at a reduced quality bit-rate which will make it unsuitable for production use, and make sure to record your producer name prominently and regularly over the track as a watermark.

Commissions & Fees

Subscription fees allow us to service your account and customers with high end servers, distribution, product support, and also help protect your business assets with legal services and fraud prevention monitoring. We enjoy servicing all producers, but having a paid account shows that you are taking your business seriously and we reward that investment by ranking your music higher in our charts and listings.

We also take commissions on sales to cover transaction fees and marketing dollars spent to bring buyers to Beat Brokerz to buy beats. Marketing costs are the primary basis for our commission structure. If we acquire the customer for you, we keep a standard commission to cover those costs and keep the business profitable. If you acquire the customer yourself and we just administrate the deal, then we keep a substantially smaller commission on the order just to cover transaction fees and escrow administration.

It's pretty straightforward, we track your own marketing efforts that you've paid or worked for yourself through your own channels when you deploy a flex app, promote your brand page, or operate your own website. Anytime business is conducted via your own channels, our commission on those sales drops substantially. In principle, we expect a certain portion of every sale is attributed to "marketing costs". If you paid for that marketing, that portion should go to you; If we paid for it, it should go to us.

The profitable commission that we keep from any particular sale (typically less than 15%) is how we keep Beat Brokerz in the black.

For a specific breakdown of our commission structure, visit our fees & commissions page.

Producer Profile

Your producer profile encompasses the core elements that drive your business. We collect information about your branding, music affiliations, contact details, and other preferences. It is important that you complete this information fully and accurately.

Note: Your producer profile needs to be setup before your music will even be published in our marketplace.

Soundclick Account

Soundclick is a music charts site which is an alternate stomping ground for producers who have established themselves online. Although Soundclick is not built as a music licensing platform and does not offer any of the business tools that you will find on Beat Brokerz, we recognize the value of the exposure and engagement that producers receive from an active presence in the charts there. With our easy integration method, we'll help you keep the business end of things tidy and professional.

If you haven't already, we encourage you to create a VIP account at Soundclick to promote your brand. When you go this route, you'll also want to invest into a custom layout for your page, which will be used on both Beat Brokerz and on Soundclick to promote your brand.

Import Beats From Soundclick

Once your Soundclick account is verified and linked to Beat Brokerz, we are able to synchronize/import music between your catalog on Soundclick and your catalog on Beat Brokerz. You can directly import beats from your inventory management page on Beat Brokerz.

Music Promotion

When your catalogs are synchronized between the platforms, meaning your beats on Beat Brokerz are correctly associated with your beats on Soundclick via their song ID for your verified account, then we can accurately promote links to your Soundclick beats as an added benefit when you purchase promotions on Beat Brokerz.

 Go To Promotions

Social Connections

Beat Brokerz will help you to keep your business activity connected through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (among others). If you don't currently maintain any social accounts from these services, we suggest you consider the benefits that these services offer for growing your fan/follower base.

Links To Your Social Channels

When we market your beats, we offer your listeners and buyers the opportunity to connect with you on any of your available social channels. The idea is to create loyal and connected customers. Also, growing your fan base and followers is a great way to build name recognition in the industry. Enter the links to your social accounts in your producer profile and we'll use them in various capacities.

Seller Dashboard

Your seller dashboard is a command center for your beats business. You have easy access to account assets, subscriptions, balances, and engagement metrics. Your dashboard page is where you land immediately after logging in to the system.

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click “Dash”

Beat Inventory

Beat Brokerz provides a range of management tools that will help you keep your music catalog up to date, well groomed, and highly marketable.

Customer Orders

You will find a running list of orders processed for your music in your seller center. Each order entry will include the order number, date of order, music licensed, your total earnings, and the order status. Order statuses are color coded for your convenience.

Color Code	Description
Green	Product delivered, licenses issued, order completed.
Orange	Order not fully processed, licenses not yet valid.
Red	The order has been canceled and any licenses revoked.

The actual status of each order can vary, depending on what stage of processing the order is in. Typically, orders will be color coded green and completed immediately after checkout, however, there are certain cases where we may need to delay processing of the order due to fraud prevention filters, payment holds, etc. In these special circumstances, we'll post notes to the order as information becomes available.

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click “Seller Center”
• Click “Buyer Orders”

Viewing Order Details

Click the icon to view the details of the order including: customer info, order comments, licenses issued, payments collected, and communication options.

As part of our privacy policy extended to buyers, and to protect customers from having their email address repeatedly added to mailing lists from placing an order in our marketplace, we do not include their email address in the order details. If you need to contact the buyer after a sale, you can phone them directly or optionally use the built in order update form which will send them an email.

In many cases, you may see the notes on the order indicate that we received a payment which was some amount larger than the total price of your beats on the order. This would be because there were other beats on the order from other producers. We only show the beats that belong to you in your order details.

Sales Reports

Sales reports are available in your seller center. We provide overview reports on your seller dashboard, and detailed monthly breakdown data as well. The reported dollar amounts on all sales reports reflect your actual earnings after our fees are deducted. This makes your reports accurate for tax reporting and actual income purposes.

Dashboard Charts

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click "Seller Center"

Your seller center dashboard consists of a few charts and graphs that provide recent history sales summary information.

Monthly Sales Breakdown

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click "Seller Center"
• Click "Monthly Sales"

The monthly sales breakdown shows line item sales data for every month of the current year. You can also select previous years to view reporting data for. Each yearly report can also be exported to an Excel spreadsheet by clicking the "Export to CSV" button at the bottom of the report table.

Music Statistics

Custom Licenses

Beat Brokerz allows you to create your own custom licenses without writing legal contracts. You only need to configure the primary usage limits, and we write the legalese for each of your agreements.

If you do not set up any “custom licenses” to use for the sale of your beats, then they will automatically fall under our default “standard” license terms which are designed to be sufficient for general purposes. The point here is that you have the flexibility to sell your beats however you like.

Note: Pricing is not tied to your custom licenses. Custom licenses are merely terms that you and the buyer agree to abide. The price that the license is sold for is set individually for each beat to allow for discounting or other pricing variations per beat. The price that the customer pays and the agreement terms are together called “purchase options”.

Procedure

To create a custom license (set of terms) to use for your purchase options:

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click “Seller Center”
• Click “Custom Licenses”
• Click “Create Custom License”

Once you have created a custom license, you'll be able to “assign it” to purchase options when you set up each of your beats. In this way, you are able to sell your beats at any price and with any terms you feel appropriate.

Licensed Rights

There are a number of different rights assignments that can be customized for each of your licensing agreements. You'll want to understand how to use each of them and how they impact your earning potential in this music business.

Discounts & Codes

Offering sale prices and discounts are a staple for successful business growth. That's why we encourage all of our producers to offer a few purchase incentives for buyers in the form of discounts and special offers. At Beat Brokerz, we provide flexible configuration options for your discounts so that you can be creative with your promotional offers.

• Hover or Click Your Username (top of page)
• Click “Seller Center”
• Click “Discounts”
• Click “Add Discount”

Public Discounts

Public discounts have the potential to be advertised throughout our marketplace and in your catalog. They are automatically applied to buyers orders when your qualifications have been met. We present your automatic discounts forefront to help you up-sell your orders and offer buyers extra incentive to add more beats to their order.

To help your buyers understand the technicalities of qualifying for your discounts, we automatically include a “How It Works” laymens terms break down with your advertised discounts. This way you can optimize your description to "sell" the discount, while we will explain to them exactly what they must do to "get" the discount.

Coded Discounts

Coded discounts are NOT advertised in the marketplace. You can add codes to your promotions that the buyer will need to enter during checkout in order to activate the discount. Use coded discounts to offer private promotional deals and inside track incentives.

Tip: After you've created new discounts in the system, we recommend you test them out by adding your own beats to the shopping cart to make sure that it works as you expect.

Payout History

Pre-Approved Licensing

Beat Brokerz is built around the concept of "pre-approved" licensing, or purchase options. By defining a range of pre-approved licenses (terms and prices), you make your music instantly available for purchase by the most common types of music buyers. Think of it like placing a pre-packaged product on your shelf that buyers can purchase without a negotiation. If you have a pre-packaged product that fits the buyer's needs, they can simply pay the asking price and instantly get the music + license without any hassle.

On the flip side, buyers that need to license your music for uses that aren't addressed (covered) by your pre-approved licenses will have the opportunity to negotiate a customized license with you through the Beat Brokerz "make an offer" system.

Default Licensing

The following licenses are "default" for music licensed on Beat Brokerz. These terms represent the standard license agreements offered for music sold in the Beat Brokerz marketplace. With a paid membership, you can change these or create your own licensing terms.

Basic License

Overview:
Record a single song ("master recording") on this beat. The first 2000 copies that you sell or give away in the first 12 months will be royalty free! If royalties become due, the author requests to receive the full current statuatory rate per unit. The author requests either an audible credit ("shout out") to be recorded on the completed song, or a written credit to be included in the title or credits section of the completed song.

No "exclusive use" warranties are granted by this license.

Premium License

Overview:
Record a single song ("master recording") on this beat. The first 5000 copies that you sell or give away in the first 12 months will be royalty free! If royalties become due, the author requests to receive the full current statuatory rate per unit. The author requests a written credit to be included in the title or credits section of the completed song.

You are permitted to perform this music in a live show or concert. You are also permitted to receive radio play under the terms of this license.

Also, synchronize this composition in a Music Video, or YouTube Video with the right to broadcast it Worldwide for a period of 2 years.

No "exclusive use" warranties are granted by this license.

Basic Professional

Overview:
Record a single song ("master recording") on this beat. The first 5000 copies that you sell or give away in the first 12 months will be royalty free! You will also have a 3 month grace period to release your song before the royalty free period begins. If royalties become due, the author agrees to a discounted royalty rate of 75% of the current statuatory rate per unit. The author requests a written credit to be included in the title or credits section of the completed song.

You are permitted to perform this music in a live show or concert. You are also permitted to receive radio play under the terms of this license.

Also, synchronize this composition in a Music Video, or YouTube Video with the right to broadcast it Worldwide for a period of 2 years.

By purchasing this license, the author warrants that no additional licenses will be issued for this composition, constituting "exclusive use", until you have released your first recording, or a period of 3 months have elapsed.

Custom Offer Negotiations

When a buyer has special requirements or needs that aren't addressed by any of your standard licenses, then it may be necessary for them to get special terms or pricing from you.

The Beat Brokerz "make an offer" system allows buyers to define their own licensing terms, and send them to you for approval. You have the opportunity to negotiate the terms + pricing, and issue custom licenses to buyers on an individual basis. For professionals, this negotiation process is an essential part of the music business which can determine whether you even have a shot at getting the business.

The Offer Process

Each beat in your catalog that is available for purchase on Beat Brokerz, has a "Make An Offer" button associated with it. When the buyer clicks this button, they have the opportunity to create their own custom licensing terms (including a price) that they will send to you as a custom offer.

Offer Review

You will receive an account notification when you have a new offer which needs to be reviewed. Your responsibility as a seller is to log into your account, click the link to review the offer, and give your consideration to the buyer.

Note: The key points to examine for each offer are the specific terms that the buyer is requesting, the files that they are requesting to download, and the price that they are offering to pay. If the terms don't seem to fit the pricing, you will have the opportunity to change them before accepting the offer.

When the buyer submits an offer, part of their offer includes whether they require only the "mixed down" beat (such as mp3), or whether they require the track separated files "trackout". Regardless of which files they have selected, you are responsible for providing the music in the requested format if you accept the offer.

Negotiation

When you receive an offer (or an updated offer) from a potential buyer, you always have the opportunity to modify the pricing to match the terms or vice versa. When you choose to "offer new terms", you will change the offer in any way necessary so that it makes business sense. When you offer new terms to the buyer, the buyer will receive a notification and have the opportunity to purchase under the updated terms.

Of course, you may also communicate back and forth with the buyer in the form of "offer comments" in order to better assess the buyers needs before accepting the offer or offering new terms. This process is called the "negotiation process". It allows you and your buyer to come to an agreement before any transaction is made.

Offer Acceptance

After you've reviewed an offer, in order to allow the buyer to purchase you must do one of two things:

• Click the "Accept Offer" button - or -
• Click the "Offer New Terms" button and update the offer

If you don't accept the offer, or offer new terms to the buyer, the offer will sit for a maximum of one week without activity before it "expires". If after accepting the offer or offering new terms the buyer does not purchase within 5 days, the offer will also expire. Negotiation can be re-opened on an expired offer only by offering new terms.

Offer Completion

Once you've accepted an offer, and the buyer has made the purchase transaction, the offer will be updated with the order information and permanently locked and archived. You can review it at any time, but no new negotiations or comments can be posted to it.

Samples Clearance

Sampling is one of the staples of hip hop music. Unfortunately, many producers don't understand (or sadly... don't care) when it's legal and when it's not. The truth is, a good sample can make your music sound great, and kill your chances of any real placements at the same time.

Copyright Ownership

Whenever you create an original work, either music composition, lyrical content, or sound recording, you own an inherit copyright on that work. That means that if anybody wants to use what you've created in their own work (such as sampling), then they are obligated to get your permission (via a license) and typically pay you royalties on the backend. This is what is called "clearance".

It works the same way when you sample somebody else's work. When you take an audio sample of another recording, re-use a melody, or record another performance of existing lyrics, then you are obligated to get permission to do that and work out an agreement for paying royalties to the copyright owners of the work you borrowed.

Label Repellent

It's illegal for an artist (or record label) to release music which contains samples that have not been cleared. For that reason, no serious music buyer will consider purchasing music which contains samples for the simple fact that they cannot release it! And if they do, they could be sued for damages by those who own the copyrights to the samples.

Even if a clearance has been obtained for samples on your beat which can be legally transferred to your buyers, serious music buyers are still on the hook for paying royalties to each sample owner (including you) after their music has been released. Each author with a copyright interest in the beat represents another hit to the artists bottom line. So unless you've got a cleared sample for a major artist (not typical), no record label (independent or major) is ever going to touch your beat.

Sales Strategy

The bread and butter of online sales are buyers that buy impulsively. If a buyer makes a decision to buy, you want to have something ready to sell them on the spot. These are the types of people who you will target with your pre-approved licenses. Typically, these types of buyers are concerned less with how tightly the license fits their needs, and more with how easily (and quickly) they can access the product.

A good pre-approved licensing strategy (such as the default Beat Brokerz licensing options), includes purchase options that appeal to a range of buyers.

Exclusive Buyers

Occasionally, buyers come along who just absolutely fall in love with your music and want to take the beat off the market while they work on their project. These buyers are willing to spend more than the premium rate, and we suggest you give yourself the opportunity to make impulsive 3+ digit sales by offering a "limited time" exclusive option license for these buyers. Refer to our guidebook section on exclusives for more information on "limited exclusives". Besides this, a more expensive license option also serves another purpose in the sales strategy (outlined in the next section). So even if you don't want to offer an "exclusive" type pre-approved licensing option, we recommend you design some sort of higher end license.

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Default Licensing Strategy

Your default licensing option is like your "recommended license" to the buyer. We recommend you make your premium license the default recommended license. The reason for this is simple; buyers are more likely to purchase your "premium" rate license if it is suggested to them by default. Look at it this way... you want to make the buyer decide to buy your "cheaper" license rather than hoping that they decide to buy your "more expensive" license. Also, when given multiple options to buy, buyers that are not budget-restricted, (more often than not) make a choice that's not the cheapest, but not the most expensive either. So assuming you've offered at least one other "pre-approved" license above and below your suggested price point, you have set yourself up well to make the sale at your "premium" rate.

License Documentation

Licensing out your music is a contractual agreement. It's pretty safe to say that documenting the agreements you have with your buyers is an extremely important part of your business, and is the primary insurance policy you have on your music.

It's easy enough to write up a contract and send it out with your music as part of a transaction. But if push comes to shove and your music is being exploited for big money, what documentation do you really have? If you don't have a signed document, then the defense of your rights is effectively reduced to a "he said she said" argument. The honor system may be a good choice if you loan a power tool to a friend, but it's a poor choice for a business strategy.

The Problem

Getting physical signatures in the "give it to me now" digital world can be a problem. That's why most producers (and sadly, most beat selling websites) ignore the problem completely. If you pull out an unsigned document and claim it's what a buyer agreed to, then the buyer can easily pull out their own unsigned document and claim the same thing. Who's telling the truth?

The Solution

Beat Brokerz solves this problem by using digital signature technology and a public access verification system to document the agreement. It all happens instantly without any delay to the buyer, but provides the same comfort and protection of a physical signature without you lifting a finger.

Here's How It Works

When your music is licensed, a certificate is generated which contains the exact terms of the agreement between you and the buyer. This certificate is then signed by us digitally and sent out to both you and the customer. This certificate is your insurance receipt and documentation of the agreement.

The authenticity of the certificate can be verified at any time using our online verification tool. It can also be verified offline in the case of court litigation. If any of the terms in the certificate are altered, then the certificate will fail validation indicating that it's not the official agreement. It will also fail validation if the buyer did not complete payment under the agreement, or if the buyer is refunded or requests a chargeback.

Demonstration

1. Download our sample certificate. (Right click, choose "Save As")
2. Use the form below to validate the certificate.
3. Open the file with a text editor, change something, and try to validate it again.

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License Validator

Upload a license to verify that it's valid and untampered.

Certificate File:

Catalog Presentation

The quality of your catalog as a whole can be evaluated through the consideration of some key area guidelines. These guidelines are by no means definitive or all inclusive, but we have identified these areas as essential components of a professional appearance.

Catalog Depth

The more beats that you have uploaded to your catalog, the more beats that we can help you sell. But more than that, a complete catalog sends the message that you are professional and committed to the cause, and not just a hobbyist. Some producers only upload a few beats and then leave it at that for various reasons. If you have a lot of music available for licensing, it's worth the effort to get it all cataloged on Beat Brokerz. We understand that you might have more than just a few beats under your belt, but there is not much we can do about the fact that making more money generally requires making more effort. Even so, we've managed to relieve the burden quite a bit with our beat import features available in your seller account.

Beat Presentation

The completeness of the details you provide for every beat play a bigger role than you might think.

Image Selection

The images you associate with your beats gives them individual identity and also conveys a lot of information related to your beat in just a glance. Hence the old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words". One common mistake we hate to see is when producers don't put in an effort in to pick an appropriate graphic for each of their beats; and instead use a generic graphic for every beat in their catalog. Artists browsing your catalog cannot glean any useful contextual information about your beats by glancing at the images, and visually your catalog just looks boring. And the last thing you want a potential buyer to think when they hit your catalog is that your music is boring.

Beyond selecting a unique and descriptive image for your beat, it's important that you attach a high quality (high resolution) image so that it can look good at different sizes. All beat images on Beat Brokerz are displayed at a 1:1 ratio (square), and we recommend you upload images that are a minimum of 250 pixels wide and 250 pixels tall. Following this guideline is yet another detail which can either help your music to stand out as professional, or fall into the background as amateur.

Beat Title

Naming beats is an underestimated form of art. A good beat title can help sell a beat, while a poor beat title can do absolutely nothing for your music, or even worse, make it seem like an after school project. While we cannot give you the intuition to master this art, we can at least provide you with a few tips on what makes a good beat title and what makes a poor one.

• Tips to come...

 

 

 

Beat Description

The description you give to each of your beats is yet another underestimated sales tool for your music. A beat description will give your music extra character and identity. Many producers, including seasoned ones, elect to skip the effort of writing some sort of individual beat description for each of their beats, but this is a mistake.

An example of a poor beat description is leaving contact details on how to contact you for more information. This does not help an artist to settle on "owning" your beat and therefore does not help you sell it. It is simply a space filler. Is your music just a space filler too, or does it actually mean something?

Your beats are like your babies. You created them and you have poured your heart and soul into them. At least, that's what a beat description should convey to the artist. A short paragraph, a short story, a short essay, or a small book, it's up to you; but the idea is to give some depth and character to your music. Describe what you accomplished with this beat, or what inspired you to create it, or just any reason why it's special.

When you provide a thoughtful description to your beats, artists will remember it and it will make them feel smart if they can share it. An artists music is personal to them, and if they know that the music is personal to you also, it can help them connect to the beat and the song will have a complete back-story. Taking the time to write a thoughtful and beat specific description takes extra time, but who do you know that's successful and put in a minimum effort?

Beat Classification

This should go without saying, but a complete classification of your music makes it much more attractive than a missing or incomplete classification. Classification of your music includes indicating the proper genres, instrumentation, mood selection, effects tags, and free tags. The more information that you provide, the more ways that artists will be able to find it and the more "substantial" the music will feel when viewed.

Promo & Reward Points

Promo Points

Reward Points

Transaction Log

Feature Promotions

Chart Promotions

Digital Distribution

Digital Distribution Services For Producers

At Beat Brokerz, our goal is to put your music in as many artists hands as possible to give you the best chance for sales and placements. However, we would never stoop so low as to pimp your music out and call it "digital distribution".

We feel it's our duty to warn you about certain "digital distribution" pitfalls for producers.

We've had producers ask us over recent months about putting music on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Slacker, etc. In fact, we know of at least one beat selling website that has regularly boasted that they will distribute your music to these platforms for you. Unfortunately for producers, it does more harm than good.

It may seem like a good idea, with the promise of royalty kick backs for streams and plays, but...

What's The Cost?

Firstly, your music will be streamed in high quality without any voice tags or any other protection from artists who would just rather record the stream than pay you to download it. And in return you get a few pennies.

The problem is apparent. These platforms were designed for music listeners. But as a producer, your audience is not music listeners. Your audience is music MAKERS. Therefore, your earning potential on these platforms is severely crippled from the start. And then you factor in that shady artists can get your beats without tags for free, and the amount of sales that you will lose because of that... and you have one bad recipe.

We definitely believe that you should distribute your music, but it should be distributed to the correct audience and in the correct manner to protect your interests.

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