The Life of a Library Music Composer

What category best fits your situation?

What is your age category

What year did you start pursing library music?

In what year did you get signed to your first publisher? Otherwise type NA if you are not yet signed to a publisher

In what year did you get your first placement(s)? Otherwise type NA if you haven't had a placement yet

In what year did you get your first royalty check? Otherwise type NA if you haven't received one

If you had to average it out over a year, how many hours a week do you think you compose for libraries?

How many tracks do you on average compose per year?

Roughly, how many tracks in total (excluding Alts etc) do you have out there?

If you compose library music full-time, in what year did you go full-time? If you are not full time, please write NA

What is the cost of living in your city?

What percentage of your income is upfront sync fees?

Have you noticed a decline in your overall earnings since streaming became popular?

Please indicate your current earnings level

If you are full-time, in what year did you leave your job to rely on library music? If you are not full-time, please write NA

Do you believe library music composers have a sustainable future with regard to changes in the industry (AI & streaming etc)

Are you diversifying your income to future protect your earnings?

Would you ever consider giving up library music and pursue something else?

Has the pursuit of library music ever gotten in the way of family relationships and/or health?

What do you think is biggest skill a library music needs to have in order to succeed?

Do you compose music for trailers?

If you composer music for trailers, what percentage of your overall income comes from trailer music? Otherwise type NA if you don't compose music for trailers. If you do write music for trailers but haven't yet landed a placement, type 0

If you compose music for trailers, what percentage of your placements come from customs opposed to prior released trailer albums? Otherwise type NA

If you compose music for trailers, how many trailer tracks do you have out there?

If you compose music for trailers, out of all the tracks you have out there, what percentage do you think have landed placements?

Is there anything else you want to add that you think would alter the stats of what you answered or any other relevant information?