When To Place A Song In A Library

[CHuckmott]

Wanted to say following my post watched the last Taxi Insider Edition you should have gotten the link to in your e-mail, but Michael Laskow addresses this question directly since it is an apparently common one, makes some real good points. Worth watching.

[pboss]

Maybe think of these things in a new way. It's not either/or until you have more than one deal offer on the table. Things happen in unexpected ways. Things can also take time as we know. Yes, shop it around and technically, it's first-come-first-serve. You aren't causing problems by shopping it. If you end up with more than one deal, you can deal with, "In which direction should I go?" then.

If you're building library/publisher relationships, and if you don't have a lot of songs, then the song is essentially a commodity. If you just put it into an existing library that you have a relationship with, but are not sure if it will get placement, and you don't have lots of tracks laying around to sign at the moment, and if you think it's a great track, then use it instead to forge new relationships with new publishers in a sense. But your question is more around getting it signed at all. A forward may yield a deal or not. If you concurrently shop it, and the forwarded track's listing party comes back to you, well, at that point the track is either available or not. When submitting and getting forwarded, you are not promising that when the listing party asks you about that track, that it is still available. They may ask you for other similar tracks etc.