Tips for Negotiating Your Producer Agreement

By Alyssa Minnec

If you don’t have a manager or a lawyer on your team, being able to effectively communicate with labels and artists is essential to the growth of your career as you start to get placements. Of course, working with a lawyer to look over your agreements will improve your chances of getting the best deal. However, if that’s not possible, there are a few important points to keep in mind. Let’s break it down, focusing on the advance, royalty, publishing, and credit.

ADVANCE

There are a few benefits in locking in the highest advance possible. The higher the advance, the more money you receive upon the song’s release. If a song does well, you’ll recoup the advance fairly quickly, and you will continue to receive royalties on the “back-end.” If the song does not do well, you wont recoup your advance, but through the advance, you still received more money than you would’ve just through the royalties.

Here’s a few different strategies to consider while negotiating your advance:

· If a project doesn’t have too big of a budget, you can negotiate for a higher royalty and/or publishing split.

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