Ask me anything you guys want in the comments and I'll answer every question!

@ProdByJira

Жыл бұрын

You ever gonna release music as an artist like Benny Blanco or Kenny Beats?

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

@@ProdByJira Would love to! Hopefully I can do that through this channel. Right now I have to pay my bills with type beats. But hopefully as this grows I can use this as my main source of income and use it as a platform to promote my own albums.

@all-stargamingentertainmen1157

Жыл бұрын

What are the legal things to do before uploading and selling a beat? And how to do so...

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

@@all-stargamingentertainmen1157 not much you need to do, just have a tagged version, untagged and the stems and upload to Beatstars or however you choose to sell

@wazi4713

Жыл бұрын

If you use a sample in a beat, can I still use the beat for non-profit on SoundCloud without clearing the sample?

How this man managed to fit all this info in under 5 mins is immaculate 😭🙏🏽

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks bro! No time wasted, I was ruthless with the editing

@knives5964

11 ай бұрын

Mans shoulda been a teacher, mfs can't teach these days.

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

@@knives5964 Love this comment man, it something I care a lot about, because I know how hard it was for me to gather all this information myself.

@tejas.a06

8 ай бұрын

@@DillyDGIByeah man you did well i’m impressed

If you produce 10 hit songs with 1% cut .. You're set for life

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

True! This isn't even counting radio play, which can be a multiplier on a radio friendly song

@thegamingzone5963

Жыл бұрын

Espically if u can rap on your on beat and make it a more hit then u are more set

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

@@thegamingzone5963 yeah then you own everything. Like Russ, he gets everything a lot of the time. Which is insane

@thegamingzone5963

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB that's wat am trying to do now but I have a poor vocabulary.making beats is more easier .

@Chronicrealngga

Жыл бұрын

@@thegamingzone5963 don’t limit yourself. Reading books is a good way to expand your vocabulary.

It's incredible how you managed to explain such a confusing topic in such a simple way - great stuff man 🙏

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro, I tried!

I swear the best thing to do is be independent, build your own brand everywhere (youtube, insta, spotify) and just work that consistently then make music with artists and get 50/50 splits for example, non major artists pulling in say 500k monthly listeners I swear you'll be alright

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

That would actually be 🔥 do you know if anyone doing that?

@mlodyrafael

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB Young Multi is an independent polish rapper. He has around 500k monthly listeners

@connormuraski3229

11 ай бұрын

Primo Beats

@digitality7161

3 ай бұрын

Doesn't Mustard do that?

I've been a full time music producer for a couple years now without fully understanding this stuff and this is the most helpful video about the topic I've ever seen 🔥

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks for watching!

@Cancel_Vulture

11 ай бұрын

​@@737simviator🤦

The goat RETURNS

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Finally lol

@sharifeady6834

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB 🐐🐐

@sharifeady6834

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB 🐐🐐

Calculator: musicproducerearningscalculator.com/

All producers need to wake up one day and realize there is nothing without them. Not be greedy, but leverage more for themselves. Again, there is no "music business" without the "music".

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

10000% or they need to start building platforms like Metro has. You’re spot on

Commonly tackled subject but love your angle and presentation. Good stuff man!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! I've seen some of the other videos, for the bigger ones I feel like it was over simplified, so I tried to show the whole picture, as best as I could.

I think it's important to contextualize. 1 to 5 points on the master recording applies when it was a work for hire or if the beat sold to an artist/label. However, when a bearmaker collaborates with an artists, the segmentation of the pies is very different. It most likely start at 50/50 for each. Generally, those who "finance" the recording own the masters...

Not a producer but this video is super dope, I’m currently learning Accy in college and the way you show the cuts, the factors, and the splitting is really spot on. Great video

thank you for explaining this in such an easy to understand way, its extremely simple to understand, most videos make things complicated, thank you

i love this! this would be a great playlist for you.. doing hit songs.. great content!

Ayy been waiting for an upload from u for a long time, dope to have u back!🙌

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Aiming for more regular uploads from now on.

Great video bro this definitely helps paint the picture more clearly in my head

great video. had me entertained the whole way thru

This is a huge motivator‼️

Hey Dilly, I just wanted to ask, if the editor position is still available, I've already applied thorough the Application, but never got a confirmation e-mail, so I was just curios about that. Other than that, thank you again for all the hard work and inspiration, you've left us with! Cheers!

Im glad you are back!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Back for good!

Thank you! This video was insightful.

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank u for explaining it in a way that doesn’t make my brain numb!!!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

That was my goal! I tried making a boring confusing topic as entertaining and as clear as possible.

Amazing video bro. Very clear!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

quality video sir dilly thanks for this one

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching bro!

This is really good information bro thanks💜

Really good video. My one critique though, is a lot of producers established big name brand established ones can sometimes demand higher % of ownership of a record especially in regards to the Master. Southside has been vocal on how he takes typically 50% of everything.

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Really? that’s crazy if he’s able to do that. Did he say that in an interview? If so do you know which one? I’d love to check it out

thanks man! can you make a video of all the ways to collect your earnings on a song? I have a few major label placements but im always confused on all the various ways to get my $ and im afraid I might be leaving money on the table.

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Hit up beatstars publishing, they take care of that for me!

Thanks for the breakdown Dilly! 🙂

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

No problem Nick! Thanks for supporting everything!

@NickLAnderson

Жыл бұрын

❤️

nice video bro! Really nice production quality!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Was starting to think you weren’t coming back G. 💯

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Never leaving again bro! Gonna be trying to make great videos weekly/bi-weekly

I needed this thanks a bunch

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

No problem bro!

Thank you for that tool, so dope!!!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for watching!

THIS IS SUCH A COOL VIDEO BROTHER.

U make the best videos on music industry

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! I try 🙏

This Video Is Just PERFECT!!!

thx for this video bro!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Of course!

Great video Dilly! At 1:15, you show that Sicko Mode had about 2.5B streams on all streaming platforms, is that an estimation or is there a way to know how many streams a song got across all platforms? Thanks!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

It's an estimation. The way I got that is I took the spotify streams (You can find that on the desktop version) and then I took the ratio of apple music users to spotify users and multiplied it by that ratio to estimate how many streams.

This outs my dream career into perspectives i did not know it was this good im hooked now 💯

Great video bro 🔥

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 💯

Great video bro!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

Great info 🙏🙏

we deserve more bruh we b carrying whole songs most of the time

I'm not a producer or a musician but I find these videos so interesting, thanks for sharing. Love your channel, you deserve way more subs!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! What do you do out of curiosity? I would have thought my content would be super music producer specific

@oholm09

11 ай бұрын

Im self taught musician I learn independently

I have two questions 1. Am a musical producer and am also an artiste, I use distrokid as my distributor for releasing music and also for collecting split, is that enough or I still need so sort of written agreement? 2. As a producer of a song, how much should be collected as an upfront and how much percentage should also be collected?

Good information. What was it like before youtube & other platforms existed?

Hard 🔥

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! 🐐

Great Video! How much do you reckon OZ would've got in an "Advance Fee" 👀😂? Love the breakdown you did with publishing and master splits, I would love a video where you break it down more! (producer points, mechanical roaylties, performance etc.) It's all a bit confusing !

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Im going to take a wild guess here, but 20-50k I would imagine for the advance. I know of producers getting that. Not a lot. I’ll definitely do more of this!

Did you consider that OZ could be a credited writer on Sicko Mode? Great video overall!

i love when the title of a video is a question and the answer is "it depends" with barely any elaboration

He finally dropped!!!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Yessir!

@sharifeady6834

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB if you leave us hanging this along again Callin the police bruh 😂

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

@@sharifeady6834 😂😂 2 weeks is the max, I've already got some new ones in the works!

w video w kidsuper shirt!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro, you re brand the channel?

great vid btw!

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Probably why producers are scared to use loops with 5 loopmakers on it

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Facts, that always gets weird. I’ve done deals where it gets subdivided into producer pies, and the drum guy/guy who got the placements gets 50% of the cut and the loop makers split the other 50%

This is why producers need to understand the distinction between the music and the business! I've seen so many producers left empty handed by the labels because of their constructions on how they create a maze of pie cuts that basically rolls back into the labels pockets...

Woah thats a steep cut on producers income....considering the contribution of a producer in a song i think its unfair what they get out of the deal...I've yet to hear about a producer who made fair income out of his production for big artist...or am i wrong...Whats your opinion Dilly?

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

It's tough to say, the publishing is where it's at for a producer, but you need radio hits. I couldn't include radio play in here, because there's no public data about that. But Radio pays out in publishing and it's 50% so if you produced a radio friendly hit, you're in good shape. I bet OZ got a couple m's from radio play on Toosie Slide

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

I think the master should maybe be 10-20% imo, but it's fair that the artists get the majority of the cut because they built the platform, which is arguably the toughest thing to do. A lot of people have great music, very few have massive audiences.

@Pranav9977

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB ohh ok thats a good point...fair enough i guess..

GOAT 🙌🏼

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

What up Preston!

@pdmustangs

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB glad to see you still crushing the game!! Keep it up

Thats about right. Plus the fixed fee they charge the label or artist per production, mix, mastering. OZ`s fee im sure is pretty high up there.

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

Good point! Yeah from what I heard they really run up the advance, like you said. Which makes sense

The key is to make everything fresh dont used samples 😂😂

In Europe its completely diff, we have a publishing and it gets split into 100% of text/songwriting and 100% composition, 1 mio streams are around 4k ( one stream = 0,004 euro from Spotify) so 4k are given to songwriting and composition. and on top there comes if it got played on the radio, shows, clubs etc. and on top there are other streaming platforms where they pay even more than Spotify (Spotify pays the less). Stay consistent and it'll pay of, because if you have more songs that generate streams you'll get paied a good amount every 3 months.

DillyGotItBumpin🔥🔥keep going fam, you got this! Also make your videos 10minutes, so you can get paid more.

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea, I want to be careful to not bore everyone though so I want each thing to be purposeful and entertaining and not drag it out

@ssmfetti

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB True, whatever works best.

goat bro

Can you do an Arrangement Tutorial pls I struggle with this alot

Just Subscribed, Can't wait to see more

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

Dilly is a legend

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

You’re a legend

One thing holding small artist down is that they always think you need a big budget to make music. For me all you need to do is to consistently drop music videos

Will you continue doing content like this? I really find these types of videos intresting

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Like how much do producers make?

How does this explanation integrate with distrokid. Please what must I do step by step? I'm working on 4 projects right now for different artists.

Sheeesh 🔥🔥

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙏

Hello Do producers get paid on radio airplay and perfomance royalties?and what is the usual percentage on those??thank you

Gems 💎

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Visuals🔥 Info🔥 You🔥

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

❤

What s the best method to grow as a producer?

When are you going to do “how to mix and master on Ableton” tutorials...? we really need that...!!😭🙏🏾

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

I’ll get that info out there somehow, not sure if it makes sense for a video, not clickable enough unfortunately. It’s super subjective every genre mixes different and people have different taste. It’s also more simple than a lot of people think, it’s just sound selection and volume levels and over time you learn how loud stuff should be

Bro that calculator is an amazing idea!

Its one thing to make a song making money and its another on how you spend and save the money that determines how you live .... Financial literacy is everything .

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

💯💯💯

Well explained tanks

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

No problem 💯

AYOOO KORBINIANS FACE IN THE INTRO 😭😭

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Lol, Korbinian is the goat, he helps me out with the videos

so what i learned is: you have to produce a hit song all by yoursel so you dont have to split with 30 other people (writers, loopmakers, mixing, mastering etc). I wonder how often that happens with popular songs, when i check on spotify they always have several producers listed..........

hey dilly- I'm wondering if your channel dipped the way mine is right now- if you check the views of my beats my stuff kinda fell off when earlier on things were popping. Am I just looking at the micro? I just gotta keep it moving right?

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Yeah bro my views aren’t great even when the watch time and stuff is good. It’s strange right now. It’s stressful not gonna lie, but yeah keep it pushing. I started a second channel to see if I needed to try something else. Also you should look into email marketing. I make a free beat every week to send out my list, and it always brings traffic to my store. I’ve heard the same from a lot of people about views being weird

Wait im a bit confused about the split of the publishing on Sicko Mode. I thought its 50% to the composers (instrumental) and 50% to the authors (lyrics). So that composers of a song share on that 50% and authors share on the other 50%

haha OZ DEFNITELY didnt take 1% of pub for that record bro. Anywhere between 10%/15% sounds more realistic to me. Also, and what about PRO money?

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

You could be right, but idk, there was 30+ people to split it with. Also a lot of samples so usually the people being samples have a lot of leverage in the situation. I believe PRO’s (Performance Rights Organization) are under the umbrella of publishing, if anyone who knows better sees this, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

@BeatsWithHooks

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB For instance, both of these records probably got insane radio spins (PRO). Worldwide at that. Also, usually, pub is split 50/50. So 50% was to be shared between the producers (not ALL writers) of Sicko Mode. The other 50% would go towards the lyrics side. And what to think of synchs? In other words, OZ probably made waaay more than projected.

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

@@BeatsWithHooks Ohh yeah, I did think about that. If you pause the videos on the total made off each song, I actually have a disclaimer about this. Radio play probably did increase his total

@maputosounds

Жыл бұрын

@@BeatsWithHooks The big money comes from radio and festivals/tours of the artists.

Recording artist and record label has no buisness on the publishing side, that goes 100% to the songwriters / producers and their pub admins. Only time a recording artist gets publishing is if they themselves wrote something, change a word get a third as they say, record label only if they adminster publishing as well. Wich most often isn't the case in most producers / songwriters single deal with a record label.

Dude you don't need to hold a blue yeti. You could put the thing on a stand at the side of your desk out of view and it would pick you up lol

@DillyDGIB

7 ай бұрын

Yeah that's true, I know too much about mics, but I got a Shure and it sounds a lot cleaner now.

So basically if you arent producing top 10 hits for artists like Drake or Travis you arent making that much 😕. I think the top producers on youtube and beatstars make the same amount of money or more

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

That’s mostly true, I know a handful of guys making 6 figures off a few platinum hits. But yeah when the market is good beatstars can earn more, except for the top guys. The other thing this video didn’t take into account is radio play which is a major boost to publishing $ unfortunately I don’t think those #’s are public

how do i know when to get paid master and published

This video was perfect. Only one thing that I need to understand still. How big must a song be to generate e.g. 1 million dollars through radio play?

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could have included, I have no idea tbh, there’s no public data about radio play as far as I know. However I know that’s where big producers actually get the majority of their $

Now I finally understand why Metro Boomin want some more

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

He’s technically an artist at this point so he’s getting majority in the way that DJ Khaled does. He’s killing it

YOUR KNOWLWEDGE IS INSANE

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

publishing is split differently. 50% writers and 50% producers

People who think producers get too small of a cut need to know a couple missed facts. Producers are almost always paid upfront as well, they bear no risk. And not all, but most producers do not contribute to selling the song, that lies on the singer's promotion.

Assuming youre working 1-1 with an artist its usually a safe 50/50 assuming you havent used samples etc.

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

It’s possible, everything is flexible I think the big factor here would be who if anyone has a platform. Usually they have the leverage if you’re both promoting, 50/50 sounds right, if the artist is doing most of the promo maybe 80/20 or something. Another variable is how hands on are you for producing.

Hey dude. When selling Stems, should I sell it as groups(drums,pads,leads etc) or all seperatelly (kick,snare,hihat,piano etc.)

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

I like to group when it makes sense, I always try to make it as easy for the customer as possible while giving them the maximum ability to make it custom for them, which is the reason they bought the stems. So for example drums are super important in hip hop so I would definitely give them those separate and give them full control over those, but if you have a complex 5 layer perc loop that's filtered, I don't think they need the ability to change that. Also in the music when it makes sense I group. Like if I have a String section and I'm confident it's mixed well, I just combine violin octaves, and viola into a group called "strings" because i think that makes it easier for them. Same with brass, if I have 2 trumpets and a tenor sax, I'll group it into "brass", but I wouldn't group Piano and Bass or something like that.

@musicholic7777

Жыл бұрын

@@DillyDGIB dude what a detailed answer. Now I really got no more questions about it. Respect brother ❤️ thank you

So... Are you basically saying that if you make a tune... Every sample you use in the tune, The original creator of that sample gets a slice of the pie?... Like that's how come Sicko Mode earnings got so diluted down? Cos so many (30) different original sample creators were involved?....

Amazing video! Though don't the producers get a cut from the money generated from album sales? So if X amount of albums were sold and there are, let's say, 12 songs on the album, would the producers not get 1/12th of the money or a certain percentage?

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

So the standard producer cut on a single song for is 1-5% (aka the master recording) so they would actually get 1-5% of that 1/12, which is a super small number

@noeticus5978

11 ай бұрын

@@DillyDGIB Ahh all right! Thanks for the info!

Crazy the ones that are making the big money are the rappers/singers themselves when they go on the road.

Sorry for the long gap! Won't happen again.

That’s little money. You can make the same money or more per year being a software engineer, regional manager of a large company, mechanical engineer, a store manager of Target, consultant, project manager, electrician, welder, general contractor, etc.

@scottbelton7870

10 ай бұрын

Yeah but think about the time spent doing each, making 1 hit song or working a 9-5 for 40 hours a week for 50+ weeks a year…

LOL WHAT!!! Sicko Mode has THIRTY writers?! That's just wild. Oh yeah, really dope video! Thanks for the knowledge

@jesseonyenka

5 ай бұрын

And the lyrics are pretty basic

can you explain the share for producer that makes album please ? like metro boomin (hero & vilain) or dj khaled(god did). what are their share ?

@DillyDGIB

11 ай бұрын

It’s difficult to say exact percentages, every song is a negotiation and each song will have different splits, but in that case the producers are getting the majority and they have ownership which is awesome

The sound recording is split between the writer & producer. Which means that 50% is actually 25%

@DillyDGIB

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!