Clearly Music Services

Clearly Music Services Lead by Jonathan Lane, Clearly Music provides music supervision services for all forms of media.

HOW DO SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS GET MADE? In this installment of “Clearly Musings” (yeah, that’s what we call these now), we do...
06/24/2026

HOW DO SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS GET MADE?

In this installment of “Clearly Musings” (yeah, that’s what we call these now), we do a deep dive in to how a soundtrack is navigated, cleared, who makes money, production costs, and what a profit realistically looks like! We also dig a little in to the rise and fall of the soundtrack market.

Our instinct is that this will be a helpful resource not only for film makers but even veteran music supervisors who silently wish they knew more about it! Enjoy 🎶

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Thank you to Brian McNelis from Lakeshore Records for checking our work on this one 🙏

We've noticed that there's a lot of confusion around what a Music Supervisor does so we wrote a blog post at Clearly Mus...
05/01/2026

We've noticed that there's a lot of confusion around what a Music Supervisor does so we wrote a blog post at Clearly Music Services to explain the nuts and bolts of what a Music Supervisor ACTUALLY does in an article called "What a Music Supervisor Actually Does" - Great title, huh? I know, it's genius.

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Couple more things to clarify that we see often:

If someone is representing your music for synch opportunities, that job function is not called "music supervision." That's a synch agent of some sort. They pitch your music to a Music Supervisor or the production.

The Music Supervisor also doesn't participate in a percentage of the licensing fee for a song. We're paid by the production who hired us for our services.
..What other misinformation do you all see about the world of Music Supervision that we can dispel?

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