Should Producers Register Beats with Ascap/BMI Before Uploading Them? (Beat Club)

Should you register your beats with ASCAP/BMI and other performing rights organizations before uploading them to your online beat store? Watch Dreamlife and DJ Pain 1 explain why in most cases, you should not.

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[Axtion]

Atl jacob said he registers his beats with BMI and then ships them out. He says he does this because most of the time nobody really cares to pay their producer or always tries to do something shady so by registering it before it is used means, soon as a artist puts it out, the money comes to you and they have to contact you to do a proper deal, oppose to the song coming out and then months or years later you’re fighting to get paid

[black]

I feel like you all should continue this convo because It is a very controversial topic for Producer’s in general coming up. So I really hope the awareness of this topic continue to be discuss because some of us such as myself get confused at times, some ppl say register them and some say don’t so 🤷🏾‍♂️, just hope this come back up in vids to come. Thanks fellas 💯

[iamtjking]

Major Gems here... Thanks alot DJ Pain!

[stacystacksbeats]

when you copyright and publish your music your protecting your music. So if someone uses the beat. BMI will find that digital stream of income and bill them to pay you. Plus they will get paid for their work in finding out that your music was used or stolen. All music has a digital encoding wav, mp3 a computerized coding. so its easy to track.

[Lonersquare]

DEFINITELY answered a few questions for me. Good Video.

[krissothegreat.]

Thanks Pain 1 .. alot of information I can't find elsewhere 🙏🏽

[Djpuzzle]

Hey everyone and Dj Pain 1 what's up. Props for all you do. I started following your work because well you are very good lol Couple things I wanted to add to hopefully help these viewers if that's ok. Most of my revenue comes from sync which is basically my instrumentals being placed in TV shows. Another big part of my revenue comes from selling loops and samples. I started selling loops and samples back in 2001 when I was producing for an old software company called Sonic Foundry. Anyway about registering with a PRO... I would say YES register your works with a PRO right away if it is an instrumental doesn't matter. A lot of my cues are 1-2 mins long. Most TV shows won't use more than 1-2 mins anyway. You have every right to register your music with a PRO and pitch the music for sync UNLESS you have an exclusive deal with Beatstars and they are your publishing admin if they are then in that case they will register your instrumentals for you. You see you can still license your songs/beats/instrumentals and sell the loops from them on sites like Beatstars AND self publish and pitch those same tracks for sync. The instrumentals I have on Beatstars are already being placed in TV shows for example several are in season 1 of Growing Up Hip Hop. That's because I don't have an exclusive deal with them AND I'm not selling exclusivity for those tracks. I'll do custom tracks if someone wants an exclusive beat no problem and there would be a flat buy out price for that but I would def NOT want to miss out on all those back end royalties I'm making from my sync placements. Everything adds up at the end of the day. SO my advice again would be yes register your works with BMI, send them off to your sync agent, and then upload and sell licenses on Beatstars and if the material is all original meaning you didn't use any loops or samples from someone else you can also package the tune up, cut it up into loops and samples, and sell that as a sample pack on sites like Beatstars, Beatport Sounds and Soundtrack Loops for example. Also there are plenty of micro sync sites you can put your stuff on like Audiomicro, Audio Jungle, Getty, Songtradr, Pond5 if you don't have a sync agent, publisher, or sub publisher like APM or BMG those micro sync sites are a good start for getting your tracks in TV. That's a lot of revenue streams right there just off one instrumental. Of course it's a numbers game so don't expect much from just one instrumental but you'll start to notice a difference after you have at least 30-40 tracks (cues instrumentals beats whatever you want to call them). Peace hope this helps! Keep up the great work.

[wizmcee]

Been down with ASCAP since 2000 .. I register beats that I make public, and use sound exchange to track what I make for sale anywhere, from streaming to Amazon or any digital music store online.. Cause they're a mechanical rights collection agency.. ASCAP handles your publishing rights..

[vice--envy]

Hey DJ Pain1, is this info on BMI still applicable, being 5yrs ago? Was trying to find a more recent video of yours covering the topic... But either way, thank you as always for all the info!!

[aishawf]

Thanks for this! I love DreamLifes soulful beats- good to put a face to the name.

[AcesBeatz]

DJPain1 can you do a video on Content ID services because this is greatly needed. I don't want Beatstars to control my content ID once I start selling beats I wanna do it myself.

[RickRijuanaPro]

I know that ASCAP gives you an ISWC code for the works you register. SoundCloud even gives you a ISWC and ISRC code option in the Metadata section on the free account. A Free download will get tracking🤷🏽‍♂️ I haven’t seen another site that does that unless it’s a distributor site like CD Baby, Tune Core etc. So until there’s a master recording with your beat on it and there’s an ISRC code for it

[rockywhitebeats]

So I have songs that folks have gotten the beats for “free” one way or another and now have these songs on Spotify and other streaming services. Can I register these songs on my end to start collecting my portion of the royalties as the producer or am I out of luck because I didn’t have the paperwork done up front? I find this very confusing so any correct insight would be helpful. Thank you!

[ritchvibesbeatsvideos]

This was a dope session, I enjoyed it, got some good notes too ✊ Thanks for your time DJ Pain1 👌 salute ✌
#MEC #BeatClub

[chazgilbert]

Much appreciated, I have been wondering about this topic, and have been told I should register with either BMI ASCAP OR SOUND EXCHANGE, I am just a small time beat maker but I made some beats for this artist that said I should yo get my royalties.

[hunterkai]

This is good video! But how would you know if the artist gets plays on radio stations? As artists just don’t give up links or updates on what they do with your beats! Recently I payed beatstars ID and found that 1 artist has more then 200k streams on Spotify, I would not have found out if it wasn’t for the Track ID!

[dubloprod]

Thanks for this video, this cleared up alot for me

[DSickMusic]

ok, so for my Beat Tapes or Instrumental Albums that I have on streaming platforms, I should register those... but there's no need to register every beat that just goes on my beat store. correct?

[cowboylemonheadmedia]

People want custom beats but no one has money. What’s a fair upfront price that’s not selling myself too cheap but still affordable for the artist who works at Macy’s or McDonalds? I was charging 2500 upfront but no one independent can afford that

[stacystacksbeats]

Again alot of producers are very sad, because they lost all thier rights to thier music. Just use your heads if you copyright your music/beats first. You will get a number to present on all your beats. Wether audio or mp3 it is still computerize nymber, which means it has a digital imprint. lol

How sweet is that. Next sign up with BMI or your choice of publishing co. Now after this is down your fully protected. And now your golden. Yes you want someone to steal it or use it without your consent. Because now you can get paid. Music is the monopoly game. Play it, sell it, create it. Promote it, cash in on your music. Dont be to lazy and dumb to study this music industry. its not that hard i learned it memorized in a week. you can too.