What's The Difference?
If you don't know the difference between leasing and exclusive rights don't beat yourself up. That's what this blog post is for...to help.
If you are an artist it's very important to know what you want to accomplish when it comes to
buying a track from a producer.
WHY?
Well everybody is not like me. Some people will take your money and run like hell. So it's
important to know the difference between a lease and a buy. More importantly you need to know when to
exercise them.
Leasing
This option simply means that you do not own the track. When you listen to dancehall, reggae, r&b or rap instrumentals you automatically get excited because you here yourself recording a hit but slow
down there.
If you are planning to record a demo after you listen to beats and you are not going to
get this demo mastered or shrink wrapped or anything that serious just lease the beat.
Why would you want to spend the cost for exclusives when you are going to sell this out of
your trunk as a mixtape or give it away to people for exposure. You know people like A&R reps. The song
you are recording is strictly for a talent show, A&R showcase, mixtape or PR stunt. you don't really plan
on spending any money marketing this song so just lease the beat and save some money for now. Otherwise
it's not good business sense and I wouldn't do that to you.
Exclusives
Okay so you recorded demos and rocked mad talent shows and built up a following whether its locally or online.
Cool!
Now it's time to step your game up and record an album to really make yourself some money on
an Independent ticket.
This is when you buy exclusives to tracks. You want to own the masters so you can really mix
down your vocals with the tracks. You are ready to step up to the plate for mastering and shrink wrapping and
bar coding your CD's so this is next level stuff.
This is when you buy the exclusive rights to beats so no other artist can release this song
commercially on an album accept you.
Exclusive rights will allow you the freedom to sell as many CD's as you wish without catching
a case from the producer. I say to you only buy using this option if you are serious about recording an
album.
NOTE:
**Lease - If you lease a
beat from Kendoyll Simpson it comes as a mastered audio MP3 at 320kb at 44,100hz or 16bit 44,100hz Wav Format and is emailed to you once payment is
received via one of the accepted methods. All leased beats are tagged in the intro with phrase (Another Kendoyll Simpson Beat).
**Exclusives - If you purchase exclusive rights to a beat, you will be
emailed a download link for the Data WAV files tracked out with BPM information
and song length.
Reference: Leasing and Exclusive Rights For Beats
