
There is a huge change taking place in the music for on hold industry. It has become easier than ever to get music to broadcast at your place of business and not have to pay a performance royalty license to ASCAP, BMI or PRS. Of course you can download the songs on my site and play them for free if you play the credit sounder orĀ link to me from your Website. More info: click here.
Another service, I just read about in this article MusicRevolution Launches Internet Music Stream For Businesses. For a fee that is the fraction of the cost of a performing rights license, you can get an Internet stream of high quality music from selected artists in the music revolution library. This way you can get unlimited background tracks for a basic monthly fee.
Music Revolution also has royalty free songs in genres like blues, world, Christmas and anything else you can think of. So they are another good option for licensing production music rights for your videos, films, Web and TV programs.
Here is a silly video about the importance of using music for on hold, however it has some good points such as “studies show” that without music on hold callers will hang up after one minute:
Here are some other interesting articles about the performing rights organizations that will charge you for using their artists’ music:
Appeals Court Tells ASCAP: A Download Is Not A Performance
How Do Musicians Get Paid When The Music Is Played On Pandora or Sirius Radio
Appeals court tosses ASCAP fees
ASCAP Loses Its Anti-Digital Music Lawsuit
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