Selling a work in the Marketplace

The Marketplace is where members sell the rights to creative works — lyrics, music, beats, rhythm tracks and loops, leads, and more. You list a work once, choose which rights to offer, and set a price on each one. Buyers pick the right that fits what they want to do.

Before you start

• You need to be signed in. Works are sold from your own account.
• Only sell work that is yours to sell — you wrote it, or you hold the rights. If a co-writer owns part of a song, sort that out with them first; the Marketplace records sales against your account.
• Have your files ready: the full work (an audio file, the lyrics text, or both), and ideally a short preview clip people can hear before buying.

Step 1 — Create the listing

Go to Marketplace → Sell a work and fill in:

• Title — the name buyers will see and search for.
• Kind of work — Lyrics, Music, Beats, Rhythm tracks & loops, Leads, or Other.
• Genre (optional) — helps buyers find it.
• BPM and musical key (optional) — for music with a tempo and a key, add them: buyers can filter the whole Marketplace by genre, BPM range, and key.
• Description — what the work is, what it suits, what's included. Write it like you'd describe the work to another musician.

Step 2 — Add the work itself

• Full work (audio) — MP3, OGG, WAV, or M4A, up to 50 MB. This file is private: it is never shown on the listing page, and only a buyer can download it, after paying.
• Preview clip (optional) — a short clip that plays on the listing page for everyone. Twenty to thirty seconds of the best part sells better than the whole thing. The preview is public, so don't put anything in it you don't want heard.
• Lyrics / the written work — paste the full text. Only the first few lines show on the listing page; the full text is delivered to buyers.
• Lyrics file (optional) — a PDF, TXT, PNG, or JPG (a lead sheet, a scan of your notebook). Also private, delivered to buyers.
• Extra files for buyers (optional) — bundle a stems ZIP (multitrack, up to 200 MB), sheet music / notation (PDF, PNG, or JPG), and guitar tabs (PDF, TXT, PNG, JPG, or Guitar Pro). All private, all delivered to buyers with the work — extras are often what tips a buyer to your listing.

A listing needs at least one form of the work itself — audio, text, or a file.

Step 3 — Choose and price the rights

This is the heart of the Marketplace. There are six rights, called tiers. Tick each one you're willing to sell and set its price:

• Full ownership — the buyer owns the work outright. Closes the listing when it sells.
• Ownership, credit the writer — the buyer owns it, but your name stays on it. Closes the listing.
• Exclusive use, no ownership — only that buyer may use it; you keep ownership. Closes the listing.
• Performance and recording, no ownership — they can perform it and record it; you keep ownership and can sell this right again.
• Performance only — live performance, no recording. Can sell again.
• Video / project use — use in a video, film, game, or stream. Can sell again.

The full explanation of each right is in The rights tiers, explained — read it before pricing, because the terms on that page are the terms your buyers agree to.

Rules of thumb:

• A listing must offer at least one right with a price above $0 — a listing with nothing to buy can't go live.
• Ownership tiers are one-time by nature. Price them like it: once one sells, the listing closes for good (see After an ownership or exclusive sale).
• Non-exclusive tiers are repeat income. A beat or lyric that sells a performance-and-recording license ten times earns ten times.

Step 4 — What happens when it sells

• The buyer pays through checkout. You keep 85% of the price; the site keeps 15%.
• You get a notification the moment a sale completes, and the sale shows under Marketplace → My sales & listings, with your share spelled out.
• The buyer immediately gets access to the full work from their purchase page (see Buying a work).
• The sale record keeps a snapshot of the exact terms the buyer agreed to. If the site's tier wording is ever edited later, completed sales keep the wording they were sold under.

If you sold in the old store

The Marketplace used to be two stores. Listings from the old Creator Marketplace (/market) were carried into this Marketplace automatically: your work kept its price, offered as the closest matching right — an old exclusive listing (which always meant the buyer owns the work outright) is offered as Full ownership, and an old non-exclusive listing as Performance and recording. Your BPM, key, genre, stems, notation, and tabs came along too. Edit the listing any time to offer the full set of rights. Old /market links now redirect here, and sales you made in the old store still show under My sales & listings, with their order pages and license certificates intact.

Editing and unlisting

• Open My sales & listings and choose Edit to change the title, description, work, or the rights and prices you offer. Changes apply to future sales only — never to completed ones.
• Unlist takes the work off the Marketplace. Buyers who already purchased keep their access and their terms; unlisting never reaches into a completed sale.
• A sold listing (an ownership or exclusive right was bought) can't be edited or relisted as the same work — the rights have moved. What that means for you is covered in After an ownership or exclusive sale.

Questions on your listing

Every listing has a Questions & comments section at the bottom of its page, where buyers ask about the work before buying.

• You get a notification when someone comments on your listing, and when someone replies to one of your comments there — you won't miss a question.
• Your answers carry a small pencil Author mark next to your name, so buyers can spot the seller's word at a glance.
• You moderate your own listing's thread: press and hold any comment there and you can delete it if it's spam or abuse. (Your own comments you can also edit, same as anywhere.)
• Answering questions publicly is worth it — the next buyer reads the same answers, and a listing with a living questions section looks cared for.
• When the work sells and the listing closes, the questions stay readable but no new ones can be added. Unlisting a listing hides its page (and its questions) from everyone but you.

Troubleshooting

• My listing doesn't show in the Marketplace. It needs at least one offered right with a price above $0, and it must not be unlisted or sold. Check it under My sales & listings.
• A buyer says they can't hear a preview. Previews only exist if you uploaded a preview clip — the full work is never used as the preview, on purpose, so it can't be taken before purchase.
• Can I sell the same work twice? Non-exclusive rights, yes, as often as they sell. Ownership and exclusive rights, no — those listings close at the first sale.