Song Licensing Business

Song Licensing Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 7th, 2024

In a world driven by music, song licensing presents an intriguing business opportunity. The concept is straightforward: song licensing involves securing the rights to use music in various media such as films, commercials, video games, and online content.

You would navigate legal agreements, facilitating transactions between songwriters, recording artists, and businesses needing licensed tracks. It's about understanding copyright laws, negotiating fees, and ensuring all parties meet their contractual obligations.

The need for licensed music is growing with digital content creation on the rise, making this a compelling area to explore. For those who appreciate both business and creative industries, song licensing marries these worlds beautifully. All it takes is a passion for music and a knack for legal details to carve out a niche in this expanding market.

In this list, you'll find real-world song licensing business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a song licensing business that makes money.

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 money it makes: $3.78M/year
How much did it cost to start: $75K
How many people on the team: 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.

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