Licensing
Know what you're buying
Every beat is sold three ways. Previews carry a producer tag — the file you download after payment is always clean and untagged.
Lease
Best for singles, mixtapes and getting music out fast.
- Files
- Clean, untagged MP3 + WAV, delivered instantly
- Recording
- Record and release one song on the beat
- Streams
- Up to 250,000 audio streams across all platforms
- Distribution
- Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and all DSPs
- Sales
- Up to 5,000 paid downloads or physical copies
- Music videos
- One music video, monetization allowed
- Performances
- Unlimited non-profit shows; paid shows under 500 capacity
- Monetization
- Keep all streaming and video revenue from your song
- Sync / radio
- Not included — ask about a sync add-on
- Resale
- No. You can't resell, license out or hand off the beat itself
- Transfer
- License is personal to you and can't be assigned
- Exclusivity
- Non-exclusive — the beat stays on sale to other artists
- Credit
- Required in the title or description: “Prod. by LIL”
- Term
- 2 years from purchase, then renew or upgrade to exclusive
- Ownership
- LIL keeps ownership of the underlying instrumental
Premium lease
Bigger limits for records you're pushing hard.
- Files
- Clean, untagged MP3 + WAV, delivered instantly
- Recording
- Record and release one song on the beat
- Streams
- Up to 500,000 audio streams across all platforms
- Distribution
- Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and all DSPs
- Sales
- Up to 25,000 paid downloads or physical copies
- Music videos
- Up to 3 music videos, monetization allowed
- Performances
- Unlimited paid and non-profit shows, any venue size
- Monetization
- Keep all streaming and video revenue from your song
- Sync / radio
- Terrestrial radio included — film/TV sync available as an add-on
- Resale
- No. You can't resell, license out or hand off the beat itself
- Transfer
- License is personal to you and can't be assigned
- Exclusivity
- Non-exclusive — the beat stays on sale to other artists
- Credit
- Required in the title or description: “Prod. by LIL”
- Term
- 5 years from purchase, then renew or upgrade to exclusive
- Ownership
- LIL keeps ownership of the underlying instrumental
Buy exclusive
Best for album cuts and records you want to own outright.
- Files
- Clean, untagged MP3 + WAV, delivered instantly
- Recording
- Unlimited songs on the beat
- Streams
- Unlimited — no cap, ever
- Distribution
- Anywhere, with no unit limit
- Sales
- Unlimited paid downloads and physical copies
- Music videos
- Unlimited videos, monetization allowed
- Performances
- Unlimited paid and non-profit shows, including tours
- Monetization
- Full monetization of every release using the beat
- Sync / radio
- Included — film, TV, ads, games and terrestrial radio
- Resale
- You can license your finished song; reselling the bare beat isn't allowed
- Transfer
- Transferable once to a label or publisher with written notice
- Exclusivity
- The beat is pulled from the store and never sold again
- Credit
- Required in the title or description: “Prod. by LIL”
- Term
- Perpetual — never expires, worldwide
- Ownership
- LIL keeps the master composition credit; you own the record
The short version
- —A lease rents you the right to release a song on the beat for two years, inside the stream and sales limits above. Other artists can lease the same beat.
- —A premium lease is the same idea with the limits doubled — 500,000 streams, 25,000 paid copies, three music videos, unlimited paid shows and five years instead of two.
- —An exclusive is a one-time, forever purchase: no limits, no expiry, and the beat comes off the store so nobody else can buy it.
- —Neither license lets you resell, re-license or redistribute the beat on its own — as a loop pack, sample, beat store upload or anything else. You license the songs you make, not the beat.
- —If your lease expires or you outgrow the limits, your exclusive price is reduced by whatever you already paid to lease it.
- —Songs released while a lease was active stay up after it expires; you just can't put out new releases on that beat until you renew.
Delivery
Your download link appears the moment payment clears, and a receipt hits your inbox. Links stay valid for 7 days.
Re-downloads
Sign in on the My Beats page with the email you paid with to pull a fresh link any time.
Refunds
Because beats are delivered instantly as digital files, sales are final. Reach out if a file fails and it gets sorted.