New that consumer music sales (seen here) is interesting but there is more in the detail.

For example the figures show digital sales as growing to a point of almost compensating for the slower cd sales. What did the cd ever do for us anyway? We paid more for a product that cost less and arguably offered less as a product (see article here)

However looking in more detail figures are misleading. To finally balance the books they have recently started to add sync licensing to the consumer market figures. They show an income for sync licensing which is a business music market earning not a consumer music market income. As we all know, sync licensing is only one of a number of business music market incomes.

Performing and compositional rights royalties are a significant income to societies who don’t really know what music businesses are actually playing so they guess. This means the chart toppers will be getting the majority of the income even if smaller local bands have their music played in local cafes and bars.

Whilst a return to the disaster that CD’s left the music business in there are still some hidden dinosaurs that the digital age is encroaching on providing the risk to the old guard and great new benefits to businesses and real musicians.

But What About The Acoustics?

In our experience with supplying spas across the world with relaxation music there is clear guidelines for the music that works best for them. Music with no strong ‘gripping’ melodies and certainly no percussion work best to blend into the backgrounds of relaxation environments.

The acoustic challenges are varied since some music will need to be played in open areas where marble and other hard surfaces are found such as pools and larger beauty areas.

Smaller rooms such as massage units will be able to aid the acoustics with soft furnishings and curtains although we understand blinds are more popular if the unit has an out facing window for privacy.

Melody Pods is in a fortunate position to have the resources of Ambient Music Garden (located here and Background Music Library (located over here).

Each library has thousands of tracks supplied by hundreds of artist all who are particularly special in that they offer their music royalty free which means they don’t sign up a performing rights society to collect performing, composition or any other royalties for them and use direct

more accurate routes to collect earnings for the use of their music. This also means that they benefit from getting more money from usage even though they charge, and Melody Pods charges less to businesses for their music’s use.

We simply don’t have the costs and overheads that the older style of societies represent, and do not need to fund highly paid executives and offices full of cold calling agents. We also use a lot of automated systems for the administration and sales processing you would expect an efficient service provider to have, meaning we can maximise our people resources int developing a great service with lots of new features and also talking to you about your service needs.

Our artists span a wide selection of music styles and with around 15,000 tracks registered we can create some interesting and fun selections for clients.

However not all tracks are accepted and not all pieces fit the needs of our collections at Melody Pods so we have to take a lot of time to Sift through tracks to find the ones we would be happy to hear ourselves in different environments and also to represent the values and quality we want to consistently deliver here at Melody Pods.