While GarageBand might have popularized making music for the masses, serious artists use serious tools, like FL Studio.Īnd it's not all fun and games, top producers say. Some of the best-selling artists on Airbit top charts, Khamlichi says, are making a very good living indeed: $100,000/year or more. Tommaso and Alessandro Pinto, producers in Germany who create music under the DopeBoyzMusic label, sold a track called Purple Clouds that has 1,000 leases, netting them $15,000. Producer packs contain content similar to sound packs. Sound packs contain sounds, loops, and other kinds of content you can use to build songs.

'Selling beats has been my career for over 10 years.' After you install GarageBand, three types of additional content (collectively called content packs) are available to download in the Sound Library: sound packs, Producer packs, and Remix sessions. 'Let's just say I have never had a regular job,' he told me via email. Their latest album, Culture, went platinum, and Purps contributed to two of the songs, which have over 10 million views and listens combined. It helps that he has over 150,000 Twitter followers and self-promotes on social media. The L.A.-based producer and songwriter contributed to hit singles on a recent album by Migos, a hip-hop group from Atlanta, Georgia. That means, of course, that the average producer makes only $66 or so.īut others like ' Purps,' say he's made $12,000 from a single beat.

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