The Value Of Music In Voice Over CDs for Guided Meditations

In some ways licensing music for backgrounds for voice over’s / guided meditations, visualisations and guided imagery CD recordings is a somewhat sensitive deal for a musician because of the importance & contribution that the music has on the actual end product and the low fee they traditionally gain for selling their music for this use.

Take for example a guided visualisation (or visualization if you are in the US). A therapist or vocalist can create a script to read over a piece of music but for sure there will be long gaps where the music itself is playing.

At Ambient Music Garden, licensing a piece of music for background for voice over audio is covered under our Royalty Free Production Music license.

Each piece of music has a 5000 units of distribution maximum before requiring an additional fee. This is not a total across a range of pieces of music but for every and each piece of music purchased by a customer.

Our 5 minute tracks start at around US$35 each for the mp3 version so the cost is very low when you consider the overall revenue that can be gained from a 5000 unit distribution agreement. For example, US$5,000 can be made from selling these at $1 each so that means the cost of the music is only  0.7% of the total revenue earned. Considering the recording will probably sell for a lot more than a dollar, and considering maybe that a collection of pieces may be sold via the Internet and not have the traditional costs of CD jewell cases and CD production and artwork printing, the profit on a product such as this is remarkably high.

As a therapy recording artist you can conceivably make make tens of thousands of dollars on a production whilst the musician may only make a few hundred dollars from supplying their work to you.

Getting quality music for professional products could not be cheaper and more compelling than this.