How to sell rap beats
HOW I MADE A LIVING SELLING BEATS IN 2 MONTHS WITH NO FOLLOWERS
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so in today's video what we're going to
go over is some of the best ways as a
producer to make big money what we're
going to outline in this video is three
different revenue streams that i'm going
to be pushing for this year of which i
think are worthwhile to making a lot of
money so before we start i'm just going
to say that the first one is beats that
we are going to be covering this was
pretty much my whole revenue stream uh
throughout the beginning of this year
before i started like focusing on
youtube a little bit more and yeah i was
still in university at the time and i
was making some pretty good money just
off selling beats so we're gonna go into
some of the strategies i used to be able
to do that these are just some loopholes
i've found to sell in a good amount of
beats so yeah let's get into it right so
right so i've got a little list so we're
just going to go through some of these
so the first one is beats so likelihood
is that if you are a producer probably
make beats in which case once you've got
the b you need to find a way of
promoting it so there is a few different
places you can put them so we're going
to go from now so the first is beat
stars so this is probably the most
popular one if you have been producing
for a little bit you've probably heard
of beat stars so this is what beat stars
looks like and this is where artists
will find your beats and purchase them
so all the purchases from here come
through to a paypal account so this is
like the easiest way of getting your
beats sold you have a bunch of these
different contract types which you can
make yourself so for the mp3 i've got
thirty dollars for the mp3 web and track
stems i've got 79 blah blah blah and so
on you can negotiate a price if you
think you'd be it's really good charge a
million if you want so yes 99 of the
times to this day still i still use beat
stars when i go to promoting any of my
beats or even if someone just sort of
hits me up and like oh i want this beat
i'll just send them the link to on my
beat stars and yeah it's just pretty
much the easiest thing they get the b i
get my money we're all good so once you
have got a b uploaded to beat stars and
now you can sort of like get into where
you're gonna promote it so the first
obvious place is youtube so if you just
type in type b there's literally gonna
be a million maybe even billions of
beats maybe maybe not billions so a good
strategy if you are going this route
would be to get something like tubebuddy
so i even use this for doing these like
youtube videos so what tubebuddy does is
it gets your keyword so for example if
we just click on this one now you got a
bunch of keywords here which that person
used of which could have possibly been
the reason why this beat blew the hell
up so if you press this sure rankings so
now it's going to show you what are the
top keywords for the artists uh central
c type beat 2021 and yeah this is really
important if you're doing the type b
game is the keywords and this is gonna
help you out so you can even click on
these and it'll tell you how likely you
are to uh rank for it so for example
central c type beat 2021 i have a good
chance of ranking for that so that's
pretty nice whereas if i type in
something super generic like juice world
type b i have a less of a chance of
actually ranking for it so in which case
the best thing to do is not go for huge
artists like juice world and drake and
future but go for some like smaller
artists and work your way up from there
so that is how i would do the youtube
game the next thing which is super
underrated is instagram dms so i'm going
to show you where how i use instagram
and soundcloud together so if we just go
to soundcloud i've been over this in a
video before if you just go back to
youtube and think of a really big
producer you like so for example one of
the biggest ones young taylor so this
guy has a big catalog of beats and of
which case he'll probably have a big
catalogue of artists also that are using
his beats so what you can do is then go
back to soundcloud and just type in like
prod
young taylor so what this has done is
shown all the big songs that this artist
has produced so for example we have some
really big ones like little skies which
got 34 million but then we start to get
like some smaller ones so then if we go
to tracks here and just do added in say
the past month now these are some
artists which have been using his uh
beats so if you are a producer and you
have a similar style to for example
young taylor or just any producer that
you pick then you know these are the
artists that you need to be checking out
so now from here i can just like play
through some of these songs and you can
just message these artists on soundcloud
a lot of these people also have their
email there for example on their
instagram so this is a huge way of
getting some good revenue streams by
connecting with a lot of these smaller
artists and a lot of them always come
back for beats anyway so i know when i
started doing this literally within my
first month of producing i pretty much
made more than i ever did before just
doing this method so you can literally
just email them or message them and put
hey man love your
stuff got some beats for you but you
like them then just go to some beats
that you've got and just
attach them i'm not actually gonna save
that
from here if the person likes your stuff
he'll message you back he might use some
of your beats and then this is sort of
where you build a connection and you're
also getting sales at the same time so
this is probably where the majority of
my income came in the first couple of
months and yeah if you're struggling to
connect with a lot of artists this is
the way for it so that is how i will
connect with artists over soundcloud and
instagram so the first income stream
would be beats and this is the way i'd
go about doing them so the next thing is
youtube revenue so if i was gonna give
any advice to myself when i first
started it would have been to start
youtube earlier to be honest youtube
really opens up a lot more streams than
just putting out like a b on youtube
does so this sort of lets you build like
a community like we've got here and yeah
it's just a lot more personal so for
example with this i'm any money now from
for example you watching this video so
that gets converted into ad revenue so i
know with youtube people get a different
amount of what's called i think it's rpm
or cpm one of them and this ranges from
like one dollar all the way to like a
hundred dollars for like particular
channels i know when music channels like
this one quite easy for people to put
ads on it as if this is a music channel
they're gonna promote music
advertisements a person where if you're
a vlogger they don't really know what to
put on there like pizzas or different
like spoons and stuff so music is a
really good one to start i think right
now my rpm's like five dollars so that's
five dollars per thousand views and a
thousand views over the whole catalog of
videos it's really not that much so i'd
say if you are thinking about starting
youtube even if you're just putting out
like one video every two weeks get that
started so this opens up a whole new
revenue stream for example in all my
descriptions and the description of this
video is links to like my drum kits for
example and like sample packs and these
are all things that can be paid for and
these all add up to more money so for
example i sell my drum kit for i believe
it's twenty dollars and even my channel
i've literally just hit 2 000
subscribers i make like a good amount of
money off them a month and this is all
passive income i don't have to really do
anything else but edit these videos and
put them out the drum kit sales and
everything like that start come
themselves so yeah so youtube is
definitely a big one that i would
recommend and like i said from here you
can push more things like maybe you want
to get into doing clothing lines if i
had my own t-shirt here you would see
that i could push that um drum kit
sample packs just literally anything
really that's why you see all these
vloggers with like a thousand businesses
for like shampoos and things because
once you've got the audience you can
pretty much sell anything so yeah so i'd
say start building a community now and
yeah also further down the line the more
you grow you'll start getting like brand
deals and things like that which i know
a lot of influencers get a lot of money
off these like brand deals like some of
them getting like thousands plus for
like one person so that could be you
means you don't have to work on
mcdonald's anymore you can just promote
a keyboard so yeah that is youtube i'm
pretty much social media in general uh
yeah that's a big one last one i'm gonna
go through is uh spotify the beats and
the spotify have pretty much stopped
doing now just because the youtube and
drum kits i'm really pushing that at the
moment but spotify i think if you're a
producer anyone should be on spotify
just making some of these like low-fi
tracks and putting them on there and
some of these low-fi tracks record in a
lot of views like i'm talking thousands
some people's full-time job is literally
making lo-fi so for example if i go here
and i just type in
hm surf so this guy for example has one
million monthly listeners in money let's
figure that out so 1 million
streams on spotify
money so that that's roughly 4
366 dollars a month what just making a
few left i beat so i could literally
make a whole loaf i beat tape in like 12
minutes so what have you got to lose
this one's got 13 million so let's
figure that out so so four thousand six
times
thirteen that one low five song
apparently made fifty six 000
pounds which is ridiculous off some nice
little lovely song so that is pretty
much how i became fully dependent on
music income at the beginning my main
focus was beats but slowly i'm like
progressing into youtube these are all
the revenue streams i'm gonna be pushing
and all the ones which are definitely
worthwhile to make you a lot of
money so in 2021 this is the list of
things i would be pushing for and yeah
let's get this bread
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