How to License and Sell Cover Music - A Guide to Soundrop (2022)

🎶 Soundrop Affiliate - Join to distribute YOUR covers and music with my preferred service: https://bit.ly/SoundROP

Easy Song Licensing: https://www.easysong.com/
MusixMatch: https://www.musixmatch.com/

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REMEMBER you need to proceed through Soundrop's pages ONCE, even with temporary info, in order to save. You can upload via the tracks page to speed up this process too! Apologies in advance for any artifacts or glitches, rendered this thing about 6 times...

0:00 Intro
1:00 About Me - Ro Panuganti
1:31 Mechanical Licenses
2:00 Getting Compulsory Licenses for Covers
3:00 Derivative Works
5:30 Parody AKA The "Weird Al" Situation
6:24 Distributor Sites - Soundrop
6:48 Soundrop Overview and Functions
7:50 Metadata of your Music
8:40 Soundrop Process - What a Distributor Does
9:20 Is My Song Licensible? How to Check
10:15 They licensed this song! Why can't I?
10:55 Making a Soundrop Account
11:50 Soundrop Dashboard
12:10 Soundrop Support/FAQ Page
12:25 How to Create a Release Single/EP/Album
12:40 Album Artwork and Ideas
13:45 Language of Release
14:10 Release Title and Casing
14:50 Title Versions (Cover Version for Non-Instrumental Covers etc)
15:45 Artists, Various Artists for Groups/Labels
16:05 Information, Genres, Copyright Fields, Classical Music
18:20 Migrating from Other Distributors, Labels, Previous Releases
19:08 Track Page - Uploading Music
19:35 Language of Lyrics - Latin/Made-Up Language
19:52 Track Titles and Versions Matching
20:11 Artist Credits, Features, Key Artists, Roles
20:48 Explicit Lyrics and Bad Words
21:22 Cover, Original, or Public Domain
22:20 Automated Claiming - What is it??
23:00 Advanced Info - Unique Genre, Start Time, Lyrics
23:55 License Info - Listing composer, source material, VERY IMPORTANT!
26:30 Revenue Splits
27:07 Finalizing and Releasing to Stores/Streaming Services!
28:35 Final Thoughts and Follow-Up

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▫️▫️ Special thanks to the Player Experience community, VGM Cover/Remix community for submitting questions, ‪@LaurentheFlute‬ for helping with gathering the FAQs, and organizing this layout. Big thanks to Soundrop and its precursor Loudr, which have both been great partners for the community, my channel and me personally, and opened the gateways to merge fandoms and artists alike.

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I'm Ro P. and I make progressive-rock music, covers, and more! If you like crazy riffs, diverse rockin' tunes, or video games you should check out my channel!

I do NOT make TABS or SHEETS for my music.