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.
Filed under Royalty Free Production Music Library |
