Meaning Of Leasing And Exclusive Beat Rights

As producers take on the task of selling their beats online they will have to decide whether they want to lease their beats for Profit. Or sell exclusive rights to their beats for profits. These two terms are fairly easy to understand. Once you understand the terms it will help you decide whether you would like to do one, or both.

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Leasing Your Rap Beats

The first term is Leasing. This basically means that you are leasing the beat to whoever purchases it. So if someone comes to you site and pays your leasing fee, you can still keep the same beat up and allow other people to buy it.

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Your leasing fee can be whatever you choose, but most producers stick to around $20 a beat. Beats that are lease are usually sent in MP3 format. New rapper’s purchase this option because they don’t have money to buy exclusive rights which is more expensive. Or they just need the beat for a single they just want to through up on soundcloud to give their followers some music.

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Lease beats aren’t that serious. No rapper would use a lease beat for an album or even a mixtape. But lease beats make the most money for an up and coming producer because they are affordable. Again, you can lease the beat to as many people as you want! When leasing your beats you have to come up with your own terms. And the person who leases the beat has to stay within those terms. Below is only an example so you have to come up with you own terms.

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Typical Terms of a Lease

• Sell Up To 1,000 Copies
• No Commercial use like radio, tv or film
• No Performance Use
• Instant Download
• Beat Sent In MP3 Format
• Producer Has Right To Resell Same Beat

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Selling Exclusive Rap Beats

Exclusive beats are more serious. When someone purchases your beats under exclusive rights, that means you now give up all rights to the beat that you created. Meaning that the rapper can do whatever they want with the beat.

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The can use it for a single, album or mixtape. they can also exploit it in film radio, and commercials; and can even sell the song on Itunes. Exclusive beats typically cost way more than lease beats. The choice is up to you, but most producers charge anywhere from $200-$500 for an exclusive beat. When someone purchase an exclusive beat from you send them the MP3 file, Wave file and track out. Track out simply is all the separate instruments within the beat you made. The horns, drums, claps, piano, kicks etc.

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All instrumentals within the beat is to be tracked out and given to the person who bought the exclusive beat from you. Again, they now own the beat! It’s theirs now. You can not resell that beat! Doing so can get you in a whole lot of trouble. A List of exclusive terms is below as an example.

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Exclusive Beat Terms

• Unlimited Commercial Use (Radio, Tv, Film, performances)
• Sell Unlimited Units
• Instant Download
• Wave & MP3 Files
• Trackout Sent Within 1 Week
• Beat Will Be Taken Down From Site

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Come up with whatever terms you wish to come up with; the choice is yours. Have fun and good luck!