SubRivers wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:44 pm
How many track before you sign for the first library that gets you placements.
Sorry, but IMHO there are far too many variables to get much meaning from any answers to that question. You might as well ask how many dates does it take before I meet my first wife/husband, or how many golf shots before I get a hole in one?
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Are the libraries you sign your tracks to highly active or fairly dormant? Are you happy to pile a load of tracks into low-bar libraries, or are you writing albums for selective libraries that secure great placements with the style of music you write? Are you writing in response to urgent briefings for upcoming shows, or catalogue back-fill? Are you responsive enough to write high quality tracks rapidly that are bang on brief, or do you prefer to write what you like and when you feel like it? Who are you networking and co-writing with, and have they already got established contacts that can help get you 'in' with places that ought to work well for you and your music? What relationships are you nurturing to help yourself get signings and placements?
Even when you've signed a load of tracks to a library it can be quite some time before you get any action, if you get any at all. Some of your best tracks might never get placed, whereas others might get get used over and over for many years. A library that works well for you this year might go quiet next year, and so on. Then there's random chance or luck, so don't forget to roll a few sixes before you push a black cat under a ladder. Basically, you just can't predict anything until it happens, or doesn't!
I don't believe that there can be any standard expectation, and any attempt to identify your place within the range of answers is futile because we are all unique, in different circumstances, with different musical abilities, production abilities, preferences, knowledge, taste, experience, kit, connections, collaborators, work ethic, adaptability, time constraints, etc, etc. There's nobody on an absolutely identical path that can tell you with any degree of certainty that their answer also applies to you.
My best answer would be .... 'LOTS'. Statistically, the more high quality and on-brief tracks you write and sign-up, the greater your chance of a placement happening sooner rather than later. Then again, does the answer even matter? By the time you get your first placement (which could be days, weeks, months or years after the track was signed) you'll probably have signed up loads of other tracks anyway. Its not like you're going to stop and wait for that first placement before writing any more ... I hope
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Graham (UK). Still composing a little faster than decomposing, and 100% HI.