6 Song Licensing Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

Start A Song Licensing Business

Here are some real life success stories of starting a song licensing business:

1. Easy Song ($3.78M/year)

Aaron Green and his childhood friend Mark Meikle started EasySongLicensing.com as a side project while running their mobile recording business, Legacy Productions. Sensing that the mobile recording industry had limited growth potential, Mark built a website to organize music licensing and saw an opportunity to bridge the gap between indie artists and large music publishers. They invested in the domain name EasySongLicensing.com and ultimately transitioned their focus to building the licensing agent business, which now boasts a user base of over 60,000 clients and brought in $2.5M in 2018 alone.

How much they make: $3.78M/year
How much did it cost to start: $75K
Current team size: 11

How We Bootstrapped A Music Licensing Business to $2.5M/Year

EasySongLicensing.com grew from a mobile recording business to a bootstrapped music licensing agent, with a user base of over 60,000 clients and a gross profit of $2.5M in 2018, seeing a 30% increase in 2019, through investment in online marketing, customer service, and forming new partnerships.

About

Aaron started Easy Song almost 19 years ago

Revenue

Aaron grew the business to $315K/month

Costs

It cost Aaron $75000 to start the business

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2. Royalty-Free Music Licensing and Sound Effects For Video, Film and Youtube

Music licensing reimagined. The filmmaking industry’s go-to library of high-quality royalty free music for videos, YouTube, advertising and films from inspiring indie artists around the world.

Website traffic: 2.61M/month

Learn more about starting a song licensing business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a song licensing business?
-> Pros and cons of a song licensing business

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established song licensing business
-> Marketing ideas for a song licensing business

Other resources

4. The Best Royalty Free Music & SFX

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Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 690K/month

5. Music Business Worldwide

News, jobs and analysis for the global music industry on Music Business Worldwide…

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA
Website traffic: 650K/month

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