How to Sell Beats on iTunes

Learning how to sell beats on iTunes may be an important factor to your overall success as a music producer. Many artists do not attempt to sell their music on iTunes because they believe the process to be difficult and expensive. While many publishers require lengthy contracts, high fees and exclusive ownership of your music in order to distribute you, you can also learn how to get your music distributed on all the major music selling platforms easily and in an inexpensive way.

One of my favorite resources for getting your beats or music distributed is more certainly TuneCore. This company is like a dream come true for independent musicians around the world. You can pay a small fee to have your music distributed on all the major sites, enabling you not just to sell beats on iTunes but also on Amazon, Spotify, Google Play, Rhapsody and many other platforms as well. The cost is super low especially considering you get distributed for a full year for a small fee.

One thing you should know about selling beats on iTunes is that they take roughly 30% as a commission. This is actually a pretty high number if you stop to think about it! I mean if you are selling 1,000 albums a year, they’re basically taking all the money made from 300 of those sales! Crazy! While the commissions these websites take may seem high, and they are, it still works great as a tool for marketing. Nothing looks more professional in the music marketing world than having your own project on iTunes.

To Sell Beats on iTunes, You Need a Beat Project First

A beat CD is a great way to sell beats on iTunes as well as in the online marketplace. A lot of producers sell leases or exclusive rights to their instrumentals to hungry artists who want to make money online. We have courses on our homepage or products page, teaching you how to enter these online marketplaces, for instance our course Beat Selling Monster, is a great all-around video course for selling beats online that also comes with an amazing eBook to help you make more money online.

A beat CD project is good because you can sell the instrumental CD as a whole on iTunes for some low fee like $9.99 for instance, and then you can separately sell it on websites such as Soundcloud, Soundclick and others, where you can actually license the beat CD out to artists for them to use on their own projects. For these types of deals you can charge much more, like $40-$50 for the beat CD since it comes with so many instrumentals and leasing rights.

So we know that getting yourself on iTunes is pretty easy, and actually making the money you need to might be the more difficult part. One of the best ways to promote your iTunes profile is by using an iTunes widget. Many people don’t even know these exist, but you can create a custom iTunes playlist and actually embed it on your website. You do not need any coding skills to make this happen, and you certainly don’t need a specific type of website or plugin.

iTunes Widget Builder for Selling Beats

If you want to start selling beats on iTunes, this is an easy way to accomplish that. You can begin promoting your website as you always would. Remember, we have courses available to help you achieve results. Don’t be afraid to expand your education with marketing tactics and strategies that will help you sell your beats online. Visit our main page or product page and select which courses you think would help you most.

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