Exclusive Only
Every beat on this site is sold once, to one artist, with an exclusive license. Here's why that beats a non-exclusive lease every time.
The Short Version
What is a non-exclusive license?
It's a rental. You pay a small fee to use the beat for a while, but the producer keeps selling that same beat to other artists. Your song ends up sharing its instrumental with dozens of others, and your rights come with caps on streams, sales, and time.
Who is a non-exclusive license right for?
A non-exclusive license can work if you're making music for fun, posting casually, or putting out something that isn't heading for serious distribution. If the song is for the moment and not the career, it'll get the job done.
What makes an exclusive license better?
An exclusive license flips all of that. The beat comes off the store the moment you buy it, and no one else can license it. Your rights don't expire, your song has no caps on streams or sales, and you won't see a Content ID flag because yours is the only song built on that instrumental.
You own the song you create. No other artist will ever release a track that sounds like it.
So which one is right for you?
This comes down to how serious you are about the song.
If you're making music for fun, posting casually, or releasing something that isn't meant to scale, a non-exclusive license gets the job done. Cheap, quick, and the limits won't catch up with you.
If you're serious about building a catalog, chasing placements, or turning your music into something real, exclusive is the only move. Non-exclusive limits catch up fast when a song starts to work. Streaming caps. Content ID flags. Producers asking for more money to keep your rights alive.
Only you can decide which side of that line you're on.
Exclusive vs. Buyout
Most artists choose exclusive. If you want to go further, a buyout is on the table.
So which one is right for you?
For serious artists, exclusive is the move. You get a beat no one else can use, you keep your song growing without limits, and the cost stays reasonable. We share the royalties, which keeps both of us invested in the song's success.
A buyout makes sense when you want zero shared ownership going forward. You keep every royalty the song earns, with no splits and no reporting back to me. The tradeoff is cost: the buyout fee is substantially higher because it replaces every royalty I'd otherwise earn over the life of the song.
Either way, you walk away with a song that's yours. The only question is how much you want to keep.