2 posts tagged “music publishing”
I got an email yesterday from my publisher, Tanvi Patel at Crucial Music, that my song Fade Away (alt. title Change your Mind), is going to be on an episode of ABC's new show, Cupid! The episode, entitled "Live and Let Spy", airs in the United States on Tuesday, April 7th, on ABC at 10:00 p.m./9:00 p.m. Central. Excellent!
If you're a creator of broadcast-quality music, be sure to visit Crucial's website, and submit your music. It's free, and before you know it, your songs could be on TV or in films.
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The weather has shown marked improvement here, and I am told that by week's end our temperatures will be as high as 25 degrees (Celsius, that is, in case any Americans are reading). To celebrate, I've decided to post a new song. Normally I celebrate things with a drink or 5, but I have been living clean for the entire month of May - no junk food, no booze, no fun. I did this partly to get ready for the summer's hedonism, but also because I want to look my best for my next photoshoot, scheduled for Monday, June 4. The photos from that shoot will be used in the artwork of my new album, as well as in all press materials and on the web, so obviously I want them to be the best they can be. And then I can go back to living poorly!
About the song: I'm posting the first tune from my first album, Things You Never Thought I'd Say, called A Moment Away. I have been working with a publisher in L.A. called Crucial Music, and they have placed this song in film and television a few times. For those of you who haven't done any non-exclusive publishing deals, it is standard industry practice for the publisher to rename the song, so that they only collect royalties on the placements they get for you. In this case, they renamed the song 'Patiently Waiting'. It's the same song, but when the song is used under the original title, I get all royalties - writer's and publisher's shares. When the song is used under Crucial's title, I get the writer's share and they get the publisher's share - effectively a 50/50 split.
One of the placements Crucial found for this song was in the ABC fish-out-of-water television show Men In Trees, starring Anne Heche as Marin Frist, a New York author living in Elmo, Alaska. ABC bills the show as a sort of Northern Exposure meets Sex and the City. The song was featured in the episode 'The Darkest Day', which originally aired on ABC on January 11, 2007. The other cool placement for this song is in the upcoming Sony Pictures feature-length comedy release, Wieners.
Getting your music placed in film and television is a great way for independent artists to make money off of their music. If you're interested in exploring this avenue, I encourage you to go to Crucial Music' website and submit your music. They accept unsolicited submissions, and have great contacts that they are always expanding; you've nothing to lose. Or check out their MySpace page, and send them a link to your MySpace or Vox or whatever. I'm not sure if it will help or hurt you to tell them that Freddy Litwiniuk sent you!
And finally, the song:
