How do I go about selling my musical composition?

Question

I've been studying music on and off for several years now and I've finally composed a pop music like piece. It has no lyrics yet as I don't know how to integrate in the words yet. How do I seek people who would be interested in buying it? What I mean by piece, is that I believe I have completed an entire song without the lyrics yet. I'm just missing the lyrics. In essence, how do I show it to people who might be interested in using it, if I can't make money off of it. If it has no interest or no monetary value, then that's fine. However, if someone is interested in using it in their performance or is interested in adding in the lyrics, how do I find such people, assuming such people exist.

Answer 1

If you're interested in selling your music the first step would do is register with either The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers "ASCAP" or Broadcast Music Inc. "BMI" and explore each of their services to suit your needs best. If you want to sell your music like a beat to multiple artists, you want to register it as non-exclusive. Meaning that the track can be licensed and used commercially by multiple artists. If you have a specific artist that is looking to use the track, you will register it under exclusive licensing, however this is different than selling the ownership of the IP. Just make sure you have the rights to everything used in the song. If you sampled anything you have to license the song that you used. A great website for tracks that are possible to license for a set fee is tracklib.com. Hope this answer helps!

Answer 2

Hey there! In essence having a piece of music written without any lyrical content means you created, a track, beat, or you are a producer of sorts. Since you have the copy rights to that track you can put it on forums like youtube, sound cloud, band camp, beatstarz etc. You can also find online forums where writers and producers meet and exchange tracks.