How To Write Songs For Commercials

If you’re an up and coming artist or producer who want to expose their music internationally, you may want to think of writing songs for commercials.

This is not going to be an easy task, but once you get in the door the opportunities can be endless!

In this article we will address how you can become a production music writer, in order to get your music on Tv or film.

How To Write Songs For Commercials

Writing songs for commercials is no easy tasks. What’s even harder is getting your commercial jingle into the hands of the right person in order to land a spot on a commercial.

Those who want to present their music to production libraries are called production writers or artists. If you consider yourself to be either one of those, or both, and have music ready to submit; then you are good to go.

What Does A Production Music Writer Do

A Production Music Writer Writes songs and license or sells it to a Production Music Library. The music library now-a-days can be found online via a website.

What you as a composer and artist can do is upload your music to the website under a specific category that matches your music.

This is called a production music library submission. Once submitted all you would have to do is wait for a company to license or purchase it for their project.

Some of the production library categories:

• Ambient Music
• Hip Hop
• Trip Hop
• Afro Beats
• Classical
• Pop
• Country
• Jazz
• Alternative
• R&B

Just to name a few. Some of these production libraries offer an option for you to send in a demo. Read the website carefully and submit your songs accordingly.

Once your music is selected it is then placed into TV shows, commercials, and films. The music composer generally splits their earnings with the Production Music Library that owns the rights to the music.

What Does A Production Music Library Do

A production music library shops around the music they have in their library to companies that need it for their projects. These projects include: Tv shows, commercials, films and video games.

The library is always trying to shop around the music it has in its catalog because if it lands a sale or licensing deal a percentage of that profit goes to them. So it would be in their best interest to promote you music as much as possible in order to seal the deal.

How Much Does It Cost To Submit Songs To Production Libraries

Every music production library is different. Some libraries charge a yearly fee to host your music on their site, and allow you to keep all your copyright songs.

While others allow you to host your music on their site for free but own a percentage of your copyright song, and if it sells they will get a percentage of that sale.

What you will have to do is look up the terms and agreement of the site to see what you’re getting into.

Anytime there is a contract presented to you by anyone whether it be the production music library or tv production companies, you should always have an attorney present.

The reason for this is that you want a professional in your corner that has experience in reading contracts and making deals. A hired attorney will have your best interest at heart by making sure you don’t get screwed.

How To Get Into Production Music

If you are naturally talented in song writing and playing an instrument then production music may come easy to you. There are two types of music you can submit to production libraries: 1. Instrumentals 2. Songs.

If you can do both that is great. If you can do both across many genres of music then that is phenomenal! Even better because it opens up more opportunities for you.

Production Music Library List

This is the end of part 1 of our series on how to write songs for commercials as a production music writer. In part 2 we will discuss production music lists and websites. This article will be released as soon as tomorrow.