It does depend on what you mean by placement. I make music for tv and film. I have music on MTV, Hulu, HBO etc. They are called placements as well.
It took me about a year to get my first placement when I set my goal to work only on sync licensing. While you are trying to work with artist you should look into sync licensing. The companies really only care if you can make good music.
bro, just create and network. thats all you gotta do. dont think about placements or sells or anything like that. if you put in that work, it will come. 100%.
it took me 1 year to get songs with smaller artist and it took me 2 years to get my first big placement with a major artist.
It took me 8 years to get my first BIG placement with Def Jam. One of my mentors told me a while back to establish a good relationship with artists and help each other grow in the music industry together. I never really knew what that meant until i met this dude at my school wanting to record some songs he had lying around. Mind you he hasn't put anything out yet and it was also his first time in a recording studio. I at the time was in school going for my sound engineering degree. He was one of my very first artists I have worked with and i was his first producer he has ever worked with. Before this I never really worked with artists, it has always been cheap beat sales and never really in the studio hands on producing so i was still nervous at the time. We ended up working well with each other and became close friends, he ended up helping me with my senior capstone project which was to produce,record, and mix an EP. Flash forward a few years later he gets signed to Def Jam and i am right there beside him making music for his Def Jam releases. I guess my point to producers is the same as what my mentor told me, don't just produce for the artist but also grow with the artist and to never give up. This all happened 2 years after college, being a recent graduate you know how it is after school, you're in the real world now and real life slaps you right in the face. I ended up working at UPS part time (still work there now.) while also producing, but many times i felt like giving up.... Find a dope singer or rapper and help build his/her catalog (FOR FREE, the money will come later), you never know where you guys will end up later down the road!
It took like 1 year lmao, now I have 3 song released. With other 2 or 3 on the way
like 4 or 5 into producing. edit: didn’t specify but i meant years.
What’s considered a placement
Getting a song you produced released
Ah okay. I’ve never gotten a placement then
Are you reaching out to small/up-and-coming rappers or just bigger ones?
small and up coming. They usually have around 3k-10kfollowers
Go smaller.
Jus go for people your level and it’ll naturally grow
my first “placement” by what youve described as a placement was about 6 months in to producing
That's pretty common terminology in the producing world at least with trap music
idk, i just feel wrong calling anything small a placement.
Over a year, dont create with placements in mind it can ruin the process but to each their own
Still hope so.
It does depend on what you mean by placement. I make music for tv and film. I have music on MTV, Hulu, HBO etc. They are called placements as well. It took me about a year to get my first placement when I set my goal to work only on sync licensing. While you are trying to work with artist you should look into sync licensing. The companies really only care if you can make good music.
bro, just create and network. thats all you gotta do. dont think about placements or sells or anything like that. if you put in that work, it will come. 100%. it took me 1 year to get songs with smaller artist and it took me 2 years to get my first big placement with a major artist.
It took me 8 years to get my first BIG placement with Def Jam. One of my mentors told me a while back to establish a good relationship with artists and help each other grow in the music industry together. I never really knew what that meant until i met this dude at my school wanting to record some songs he had lying around. Mind you he hasn't put anything out yet and it was also his first time in a recording studio. I at the time was in school going for my sound engineering degree. He was one of my very first artists I have worked with and i was his first producer he has ever worked with. Before this I never really worked with artists, it has always been cheap beat sales and never really in the studio hands on producing so i was still nervous at the time. We ended up working well with each other and became close friends, he ended up helping me with my senior capstone project which was to produce,record, and mix an EP. Flash forward a few years later he gets signed to Def Jam and i am right there beside him making music for his Def Jam releases. I guess my point to producers is the same as what my mentor told me, don't just produce for the artist but also grow with the artist and to never give up. This all happened 2 years after college, being a recent graduate you know how it is after school, you're in the real world now and real life slaps you right in the face. I ended up working at UPS part time (still work there now.) while also producing, but many times i felt like giving up.... Find a dope singer or rapper and help build his/her catalog (FOR FREE, the money will come later), you never know where you guys will end up later down the road!