Most commercial music libraries wouldn’t publish a list like this. Competitors could use this intelligence for all sorts of things.
But at MusicRevolution.com, we see things differently. After tumultuous change in the music industry, musicians are on their own more than ever before. But in order to be successful, they first have to understand what has made others successful. We want to provide musicians who submit music to MusicRevolution.com with every piece of data they need to create great music..great music that sells:
(*Tracks are NOT listed in order of sales volume. List was created 1/5/2012 ):
So why did these tracks perform so well? In an upcoming blog, I’ll break out a complete list of what musicians can do to improve their sales on MusicRevolution.com, but I can say right now that the things from that list that were done brilliantly by these musicians include:
a) Keep the sunshine in your music. Keep the surprises out.
b) Metadata, metadata, metadata
c) Keep it simple. Serve the voice over.
d) Compare your mix against everything else out there.
Stay tuned for that more detailed list. Should come out next week. Thanks for letting us sell your music!
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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 20,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com. 
