Help Me Sell My Music

If you searched “help me sell my music” and ended up here, you’re in the right place. We do the unglamorous part of getting music placed — researching the right libraries, supervisors, and labels and writing 100+ individually personalized pitches — on your behalf, for a flat fee starting at $79.

If any of these sound like you, keep reading

Most people who type “help me sell my music” into Google fall into one of five buckets. We built MoveMusic for all of them.

  • Working musicians and producers with finished tracks sitting on a hard drive. You’ve made the work; you don’t want to spend the next year doing cold sync-library outreach.
  • Songwriters and composers with a catalog of 5-50+ broadcast-ready cues looking for sync placements in film, TV, ads, trailers, or games.
  • Estate executors and heirs sitting on a deceased relative’s catalog — masters, publishing splits, registered works — and trying to figure out whether to sell, license, or sit on it.
  • Indie artists rotating older releases. The album dropped in 2021, the streaming numbers plateaued, and the deep cuts are perfect for sync but nobody’s pitching them.
  • Anyone whose music “won’t place” on the obvious channels. Submitted to ten libraries, got rejections or radio silence. Often the music is fine; the supervisors who’d love it haven’t heard it.

If none of these describe you, that’s ok — our free catalog assessment is a no-cost way to find out whether your tracks have the kind of sync demand that justifies an outreach campaign at all.

Targeted outreach, written one supervisor at a time

The single biggest reason music doesn’t get placed is not quality — it’s that the right buyers never hear it. Every sync library has a focus. Every music supervisor has a narrow brief. The cue that won’t move on Musicbed will sometimes get licensed in a week if you can put it in front of the three supervisors on earth who are scoring the exact kind of project it fits.

That’s the entire MoveMusic thesis. The work is finding those people and writing each of them an email that reads like it took an hour to write — because it did.

For every campaign, our AI does four things in order:

  • Researches your catalog. Genre, BPM, mood, instrumentation, vocal vs. instrumental, tempo sub-bands, comparable placed tracks, and an honest read on which segments of your catalog have the most sync demand right now. You get this back in writing inside 24 hours, before any outreach goes out.
  • Builds a buyer list. 50 to 150+ sync libraries, music supervisors, ad agency music teams, trailer houses, game audio directors, and label A&R worldwide who already license work like yours. Each one is scored for relevance against your specific catalog.
  • Writes individually personalized emails. Every email references the recipient’s recent placements, current roster gaps, and stated brief, then explains why your tracks fit their slate. Zero templates. If a supervisor just placed three indie folk cues for a Hulu drama, the email about your indie folk EP will say so — with the timecodes.
  • Sends, tracks, and follows up. Emails go out from a real domain, with delivery tracking, open tracking, and a 7-day follow-up cadence. You see who opened, who replied, and what cues they asked about.

What we do not do: take a percentage of placement fees, lock you into representation, sign your masters, or guarantee a placement. The campaign is a flat fee, paid up front, and any deal that comes out of it belongs entirely to you.

Not sure if your catalog has real sync demand?

Start with a free catalog assessment. We research your tracks, the libraries actively licensing similar work, and current sync demand — then tell you honestly whether a campaign makes sense. No card required.

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What’s included at each tier

Three tiers, three price points, all flat-fee. The right one depends on the size of your catalog, how broad you want the outreach, and how much follow-up you need.

Starter
$79

AI catalog research and 25 individually personalized outreach emails to a tightly targeted list of libraries and supervisors. Best for emerging artists with 1-5 tracks where the per-pitch economics need to make sense.

Premium
$349

Comprehensive research, 150+ individually personalized emails, and a structured 7-day and 21-day follow-up sequence. Best for deep catalogs, estate libraries, and projects that need international reach.

If during research we determine your catalog has limited sync viability, we tell you before any outreach goes out and refund in full. We’d rather lose the $149 than send 100 emails about tracks we don’t believe in — that’s how our deliverability stays high.

Timeline, response rates, and what we don’t promise

Honest expectations, written down so we can’t move the goalposts later.

  • Catalog assessment in 24 hours. Submit your tracks today, you have a written assessment tomorrow. If your catalog isn’t broadcast-ready, we say so before launching.
  • Buyer list and sample emails in 48-72 hours. You see 3-5 sample emails before the campaign goes out. You can request changes to tone, track emphasis, or strategy.
  • Outreach over 5-10 days. Emails are sent in waves to keep deliverability healthy. Premium tier includes follow-up cycles at day 7 and day 21.
  • Response rate of 10-18% is typical for personalized sync outreach — meaning roughly 1 in 7 supervisors reply with a question, an interest, or a polite pass. Generic library blasts run 1-2% by comparison.
  • First placement often 60-180 days out when it happens. Sync moves slowly. A supervisor who likes a cue today may not license it until they’re scoring the right scene 6-12 months from now. This is normal.

What we will not promise

We will not promise a placement. We will not promise a specific sync fee. We will not promise that any individual library signs you. The market decides those things, not us. What we control — and what we will deliver in writing — is the research quality, the buyer-list relevance, the personalization on every email, the deliverability, and an honest read on your catalog after the campaign closes.

Questions people actually search

These are the eight questions we hear most. Honest answers below.

How do I sell my music?

There are really only three ways to monetize music in 2026, and you usually do all three at once. First, streaming royalties via DistroKid, TuneCore, or CD Baby — pennies per stream, but it’s table stakes. Second, sync licensing — placing tracks in film, TV, ads, games, and trailers. This is where most working composers actually make money. Third, direct catalog sales or work-for-hire deals with labels and publishers. MoveMusic focuses on path two: we research the right sync libraries, music supervisors, ad agencies, and label A&R, and send each of them an individually personalized pitch with your tracks attached.

Where can I license my music?

The main destinations are sync libraries (Musicbed, Marmoset, Artlist, Audio Network, APM, Universal Production Music), production music networks, ad agencies with in-house music teams, music supervisors at film and TV studios, trailer houses, and game audio directors. Each one has narrow taste — Marmoset wants indie/cinematic, APM wants production-friendly cues, supervisors at A24 want different things than supervisors at Hallmark. Mass-submitting to all of them is how composers burn six months and get nothing. Targeted, personalized outreach to a curated list is how placements actually happen.

How do I sell my late father’s music catalog?

First, figure out what you have: registered works, masters ownership, publishing splits, existing royalty streams from PROs and SoundExchange. A catalog with documented royalty history is worth real money to a music investment fund or publisher; a catalog without paperwork is much harder. Step two is decide between an outright sale (catalog acquisition fund, publisher buyout) or ongoing licensing (keep ownership, license tracks for sync). For sync licensing of an inherited catalog, MoveMusic’s research-then-outreach process works well because legacy catalogs often have evergreen tracks that supervisors love and never knew existed.

How much does MoveMusic cost?

Three flat-fee tiers, no commission. Starter is $79 — AI catalog research and 25 individually personalized outreach emails to a tightly targeted list of libraries and supervisors. Standard is $149 — deeper research and 60-100 emails across libraries, supervisors, ad agencies, and label A&R. Premium is $349 — comprehensive research, 150+ emails, plus follow-up sequences at day 7 and day 21. We do not take a cut of any sync fee or licensing deal you ultimately sign. You keep 100% of the placement income. If our research shows your catalog has limited sync viability, we tell you before sending and refund.

Will MoveMusic help me license music that’s been rejected by libraries?

Often, yes — because most library rejections are about fit, not quality. Marmoset rejecting a track doesn’t mean APM will reject it; it usually means the cue didn’t match what Marmoset’s roster currently needs. We approach it differently: we research the supervisors and libraries whose recent placements actually look like your catalog, then pitch each one with a specific reason your music fits their roster. That said, we won’t take your money if the research shows no real demand. If your tracks have been pitched everywhere and rejected on substance — mix issues, dated production, cleared sample problems — we’ll tell you and not run the campaign.

What if my music doesn’t get placed?

We can’t guarantee a placement — anyone who guarantees one is selling something. Sync deals depend on what’s getting greenlit that quarter, what cues directors are searching for, and pure timing. What we do guarantee: the research quality, the email volume, the personalization (every email references the recipient’s recent placements and current roster gaps), and tracked delivery. If a campaign closes without a placement, we share the full response data — who opened, who replied, what cues they asked about — so you can adjust your catalog or re-run with a different angle. Many placements close 60-180 days after outreach, when a project lands that needs your sound.

How long does music licensing take?

Outreach itself is fast: research and a written catalog assessment in 24 hours, sample emails in 48-72 hours, full campaign sent over 5-10 days. The licensing cycle on the buyer side is much longer. A supervisor who likes your tracks today might license one 3-9 months from now when the right scene shows up. Sync libraries that take you on may not place a cue for 6-12 months. Plan on 30-90 days to get meaningful response data, 6-12 months for first placements, and 12-24 months for the catalog to season inside the libraries that pick you up. This is normal — it’s how the industry has always worked.

Is MoveMusic better than hiring a sync agent?

It depends on what you actually need. A traditional sync agent or pitch service is great if you have a catalog of 50+ broadcast-quality tracks and you want long-term representation; they’ll take 25-50% of placement fees in exchange for ongoing pitching and relationship management. MoveMusic is better if you have 1-30 tracks and you mostly need someone to do the targeted research and personalized outreach work upfront, without giving up perpetual revenue. Our Premium tier ($349) does in three days what a sync agent typically does over weeks. For a deep catalog that needs constant pitching, hire both: us for the cold-launch sprint, an agent for the long term.

Note on “help me move my music” / catalog migration: MoveMusic is not a catalog migration, distribution, or PRO-administration service. If you need to move masters between distributors or change PRO affiliation, that’s a different workflow. We focus exclusively on getting the right buyers — supervisors, libraries, agencies — to actually hear and license your work.

Ready to Sell Your Music?

Submit your tracks below and we’ll research your catalog, build a targeted buyer list, and write personalized outreach emails on your behalf. Campaigns start at $79. If we can’t make a credible market case for your catalog, we’ll tell you before charging anything.

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