
There’s also so many more ways now for an artist/writer/composer to get their music licensed themselves: Music supervisors absolutely love to find “that” next song or group and really are the modern day A&R, and music licensing is the new radio.
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Overall TV music licensing fees have fallen, but trailer music licensing seems to be holding strength in fees. Maintaining licensing fee value for our music is always a constant situation to be aware of and to still be competitive in this market.

They have come to understand the affordability, viability and constant success a music library brings to their overall company’s portfolio. Now you find major music publishers with their own production music library business. The production music business has way outgrown the “canned music, stock music” moniker that most people labeled our business as. What are the four benefits production music offers to music supervisors, that other song sources can’t? Why does getting face to face in LA still matter? How can new artists/producers can get on their roster, and how can studios, producers and engineers get into the game? Read on for Robbins’ input, together with MPM Vice President Ron Goldberg.Īndrew Robbins, Senior Director of Film/TV Music, is heading up the first-ever LA office of MPM.Īndrew Robbins: If I recall, there were less than a dozen Production music library companies in 1997 that were real players in music licensing. MPM has placed its music in films such as “Race: The Jesse Owens Story” and “Dirty Grandpa,” in trailers promoting such hit films as “Trainwreck,” in such top TV shows as “Madame Secretary,” “Silicon Valley” and “The Big Bang Theory,” and in commercials for such major brands as AT&T and Toyota. Smith, Stigmata, Memento, Bad Santa, and Big Fish, while TV synchs included “Switched at Birth,” “Pawn Stars,” “Nashville,” “The Mentalist,” and “American Restoration.” In total, Robbins career tally of music placements in feature films, network/cable television programs, feature film trailers, and commercials is 29,000+. Additional film music placements included Mr. Recent success stories for MPM include films like Race: The Jesse Owens Story and Dirty Grandpa trailers promoting hit films such as Trainwreck TV shows including “Madame Secretary,” “Silicon Valley” and “The Big Bang Theory ” and commercials for AT&T and Toyota.Ī veteran production music exec, Robbins was Director, Film/TV Music at MusicBox (2007-2015) and the vaunted Megatrax (1997-2007), securing music placements for the Best Picture Oscar-winning film Crash. As a sister company to Chesky Records, he’ll have access to audiophile-quality jazz, world and classical recordings that no one else can get. In total, Robbins has over 28,000 tracks of one-stop songs at his disposable, including some that come with a special advantage.


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He’ll have plenty on his plate in LA, leveraging his relationships within entertainment, broadcasting, and media industries to place MPM Music’s large catalog of music and songs in feature films, movie trailers, TV shows, TV promos, videogames, commercials, and multi-media projects. MPM chose Andrew Robbins for that key role, naming him as its new Senior Director of Film/TV Music. Manhattan Production Music now extends to both coasts.
