How to Get A Placement!

Music Placements have to do with finding the right match for you and your music. When placed effectively in Media, music has the power to really make an impact on the listener. There are also many benefit to the creator. Make sure you know all the avenues to take to make it happen!

1.) Set up Publishing and/or Performers Rights - Performing rights organizations are designed to represent songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public. The primary job of the music publisher is to link up new songs by songwriters with suitable recording artists to record them, with the intent of creating a hit record and generating large numbers of sales and airplay. In The U.S. the major Performing Rights Companies are :

BMI
SESAC
ASCAP

2)Music Placement Companies

Here's a couple for you below:
http://www.mymusicagenda.com
http://www.jetsetsound.com/
http://www.musicplacement.com/

3) Hire an Agent or Manager
Specifically, someone who is well-connected and can be the specific go-to-person for getting your stuff heard and placed.

4) Throw a Listening Party
Invite all the potentials who you think may be interested in your work, and let them all hear it at once. We call this the "Band-wagon" effect... It will save you a lot of time. And it is an influential environment.

4.) Don’t Limit Yourself to Just Records.
Music Placements come in all forms:

Albums
Film
Television,
Video Games
Corporate Videos
Advertising
And More!