Hip hop producer reveals how to sell beats without a record label. Great for music and hip hop publications.
There are hundreds and thousands of rap producers in the world trying to learn How to Sell Beats and yet almost none of them know the best way to go about doing this! The truth of the matter is,
you're going to be better off not trying to sell your beats to record labels because the competition has become so very high. In the digital age, a beat making program and midi keyboard can be as affordable as groceries, and since everybody makes beats these days it's become much more difficult to contact the right labels to sell beats.
It's always been a shock to me to realize that so many beat makers around the world have not yet realized that selling beats online is the best way to go in the independent age. All you have to do is promote your own beat store in the right way and you'll be finding yourself in a great position running a business on the internet. Rappers everywhere are turning to the net to purchase beats and if you're there to sell them, you're in luck.
There are seemingly infinite numbers of rappers and hip hop singers around the globe trying to make albums on a low budget. The artists that I am referring to are usually independent or not even signed, so money is always going to be tight for them. Having said that, they obviously don't have the resources to get beats by Dr. Dre or Scott Storch, so they turn to the internet. Even rappers such as Joe Budden and 50 Cent have purchased beats from artists on Soundclick.com within the past year or two!
There are a few reasons why so many artists are flocking towards these websites to both buy and sell beats, one of which being price. Even hugely famous artists can see a price tag and a high value, which is part of the reason why the online market is growing so quickly. Why pay big time producers tens of thousands of dollars or more for a beat that sounds half as good as a beat bought off Soundclick?
When a rapper goes on the internet to purchase some rap beats, they're going to be discussing terms with the producer directly, one on one. You don't have to go through the middle men of record labels or fly through a fat process of twists and turns in order to get a beat. With a record label, there's always long negotiations... With independent producers, it's simply faster and more efficient.
Beats sell and learning how to sell beats online has been thought to be, by many, the wave of the future. The first place to start is definitely Soundclick.com and if you don't already have a free account at least then you need to visit that site immediately after reading this and sign up. That's step one.
Though sites like RocBattle and MyBeatShop may seem like the best place to start because they have easy-to-use beat stores set up, I would think again. These sites are built for producers, not rappers, meaning that you are promoting yourself to other beat makers, not rappers. On Soundclick there are well over 1.4 million rappers online, so your target audience is sitting there on the website itself. Promoting on Soundclick is much more efficient than promoting on other arbitrary beat selling sites for this reason.
Remember that learning how to sell beats online is a skill that requires some patience and hard work, but if you're not even trying then you are left out of the loop. Get an account on Soundclick immediately, and visit the links in the paragraph below (my resource box) in order to visit my site to download the eBooks I wrote and learn a lot more.
