Sell Custom Remixes & Mashups From Your Bio

Sell custom remixes and mashups to followers by listing it as a priced Brillay Custom Work: the follower specifies the songs, key, tempo, or vibe they want blended, you produce and deliver the finished audio file within a set turnaround, and payment happens up front through the link already in your bio. Custom Work lets you offer clearly scoped commissions and services: you set the price, the scope and the delivery time, and followers submit a brief and pay before you start.

No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate. Brillay pricing documentation

The request usually starts the same way, in a comment or a DM: "can you mash up [song A] and [song B]?" or "remix this into a house version for my party." Answered for free, it's a nice gesture that costs you studio time. Answered with a link to a scoped, priced offer, it's a repeatable product. Brillay's own product documentation for Custom Work states that a follower can attach up to 5 of their own files when they order — a track, a stem pack, a reference — and that the creator delivers a written note plus files, or a private link for anything larger. That is the mechanic behind a paid remix order: the request, price, payment, and file delivery stay together instead of being negotiated in the comments.

What counts as a custom remix or mashup request?

A custom remix or mashup request is a made-to-order audio deliverable built from one or more existing songs, not an original composition and not a short sound element. The follower names the tracks or supplies the source material, you produce a finished blended track, and you deliver it as a file within an agreed delivery time you set before anyone pays.

The production skill behind that deliverable maps to a small, well-defined occupation: O*NET OnLine, the occupational database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, records 16,900 people employed as sound engineering technicians in the United States in 2024 (O*NET 27-4014). Remix and mashup work is a freelance slice of that skill set rather than a tracked occupation of its own, so no federal agency publishes a per-remix market price. The wider field is not expanding either: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of announcers and DJs to decline 3 percent from 2025 to 2035, which is part of why a direct, priced follower offer is worth building alongside gig and set income.

That scope is narrower than two nearby products. A short, isolated audio element — a vocal chop, a drop, a producer tag — is its own product, covered separately in sell custom EDM drops & vocal chops. A vocals-only performance of a single existing song, with no blending or production layer, is a cover request rather than a mashup — see sell personalized a cappella cover requests. Keeping the three categories separate on your page keeps pricing and delivery time expectations clear for the follower before they pay. If the request is a scratch vocal for an unreleased song, treat it as a priced reference vocal demo service instead.

How much should you charge for a custom remix or mashup?

Price a remix or mashup by production time, not by a flat per-song rate. Estimate the hours of stem separation, editing, arrangement, and mixing each request needs, multiply by an hourly rate you can defend, then account for the platform fee (8% when a follower pays for work, 5% on tips and goals) and card processing in your margin. A two-track blend and a genre remix are not the same job.

Two federal wage benchmarks bracket that hourly rate. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a median hourly wage of $21.61 and a mean of $32.57 for the occupation "Disc Jockeys, Except Radio" (occupation code 27-2091) as of May 2025 (BLS OEWS occupation 27-2091). O*NET OnLine, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, puts the 2025 median wage for sound engineering technicians higher, at $35.16 per hour, or $73,130 a year (O*NET 27-4014).

Neither figure is a remix price. Both are hourly labor benchmarks for the closest official occupations, and a mashup is a production job closer to sound-engineering work than to DJ performance, so the tier prices in the table below are modeled by multiplying estimated production hours by the O*NET sound-engineering rate of $35.16 an hour and rounding. Every price and time range in that table is a modeled estimate built from those two public wage sources, not survey data, not Brillay earnings data, and not a guarantee of what any remix will sell for.

Every constraint in the right-hand column comes from Brillay's own product documentation, which is the primary source for how Brillay services behave: file counts, the 20-minute media length, the private-link option, and the creator's right to decline a request are documented on the Custom Work feature page. You set the delivery promise, up to a maximum of 5 days.

Producers pricing beats and remixes side by side can start from standard beat-lease pricing as a framework for their tiers, then adjust upward for the extra editing a blend or genre-swap requires.

Should a remix go through a custom request or a Paid Question?

Use Custom Work for a finished remix or mashup file and Paid Questions for a written answer.

The delivery format is what settles the choice. A remix is by definition an audio file, and Brillay's Custom Work documentation specifies a delivery package of a written note plus up to 5 files — video, audio, images, PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, with video and audio capped at 20 minutes each — plus an optional private link for anything larger. A 4-minute mashup fits that envelope comfortably; a full stem package usually goes out as the private link.

Do you need permission to remix or mash up someone else's song?

Usually yes. A remix or mashup is a derivative work built on at least two separate copyrights — the underlying musical composition and, if you use released audio, the sound recording. Selling one to a single follower is still a commercial use, so a private paid delivery does not remove the need for clearance from the rights holders.

The U.S. Copyright Office defines a derivative work as a work based upon one or more preexisting works, including a musical arrangement, and copyright in the underlying song still applies to the material you build on (U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 92, Chapter 1).

"A 'derivative work' is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted." — U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 92 (Copyright Law of the United States), Chapter 1

The compulsory "mechanical" license under Section 115 of the Copyright Act, which lets anyone record and distribute a cover of an already-released song, does not stretch to cover a remix. The statute grants only a limited arrangement privilege, and the U.S. Copyright Office publishes the limit verbatim in the statutory text (17 U.S.C. § 115(a)(2)):

"A compulsory license includes the privilege of making a musical arrangement of the work to the extent necessary to conform it to the style or manner of interpretation of the performance involved, but the arrangement shall not change the basic melody or fundamental character of the work, and shall not be subject to protection as a derivative work under this title, except with the express consent of the copyright owner." — 17 U.S.C. § 115(a)(2), U.S. Copyright Office

Two consequences follow for mashup work specifically. Changing the fundamental character of a song is precisely what a genre remix does, which puts it outside the Section 115 privilege and back into "express consent of the copyright owner" territory. Separately, the same section states that a compulsory license to duplicate a sound recording fixed by another requires that the recording was fixed lawfully and that the making of the phonorecords was authorized by the owner of the sound-recording copyright (17 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(A)) — so pulling an acapella out of a commercial release requires permission for the sound recording as well as the composition.

The downside is quantified in statute. Under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), a copyright owner may elect statutory damages of not less than $750 or more than $30,000 per work infringed, and a court may raise that award to not more than $150,000 per work where infringement is found to be willful (17 U.S.C. § 504(c), U.S. Copyright Office).

This page describes how to price and deliver a remix as a made-to-order file. It is not legal advice. Selling a derivative work can require rights clearance from the songwriter, publisher, and label whether the delivery is public or private, and a paid private delivery to one follower is not a safe harbor — it is still commercial use of someone else's copyrighted material. Fair use is decided case by case and is never guaranteed in advance. Before you sell remix or mashup work built on copyrighted songs, clear the rights or take advice from a qualified music attorney or a licensing service; if you cannot, the safe versions to sell are remixes of your own catalogue, of tracks whose rights holders have granted permission, or of material released under a licence that permits derivative works.

What should a remix or mashup listing include?

A remix or mashup listing should state six things before the follower pays: the input required, the style direction, the file deliverable, the delivery time, the revision policy, and the scope limit that triggers a decline. Defining all six up front is what stops a two-song tier from turning into an unpaid five-song medley after payment clears.

• Input: How many songs, and whether the follower supplies stems or acapellas or simply names the tracks. Followers can attach files with Custom Work orders.
• Style: Genre, tempo, or mood direction — "house remix," "slowed + reverb," "wedding-ready blend."
• Deliverable: File format, and whether it is a rough mix or a mastered final. With Custom Work, you deliver audio files of up to 20 minutes each, and you can use a private link for larger stem packages.
• Delivery time: A window you can reliably hit. You set a published delivery promise of up to 5 days, with 5 days as the maximum.
• Revision policy: Whether one adjustment round is included or changes cost extra — Brillay doesn't set a revision count for Custom Work, so your published policy is what governs it.
• Scope limit: What triggers a decline-and-refund. Brillay's Custom Work documentation states that an out-of-scope request can be declined and refunded.

What if the request goes viral before you can deliver it?

Treat a viral moment and a paid remix order as two separate income lines. A teaser clip or live snippet that takes off drives people who want to support you immediately, with nothing owed back — that is what a Tips link is for. The commissioned remix stays a custom request in the queue, delivered at its own agreed delivery time.

A Tips link lets a supporter send a one-time amount with nothing to deliver in return, so a spike in attention converts the same day instead of waiting on a queue. The same bio link carries both offers at once: a Tips option for the moment something takes off, and a custom request listing for the follower who wants their own custom blend produced. See accept tips after a viral cover video for how creators bridge a sudden traffic spike into a working payment link without waiting on a platform's own gifting features to unlock.

How do you get a remix or mashup offer live on your page?

Publish one tier rather than a full menu. Write the input requirements, delivery time, and revision policy into a single two-track mashup service, price it from a defensible hourly rate, publish it as a custom request, and point every incoming request at your Brillay link instead of answering the ask for free in the comments.

Costs to price around are published, not estimated. Stripe's published pricing lists 2.9% + $0.30 as the typical US domestic online-card rate, with an additional 1.5% for international cards (Stripe pricing).

You redirect followers from wherever the request arrived — a comment, a DM, a stream chat — to your Brillay link, where they pay by card as guests before you start and submit the details needed to start the mix (Brillay how-it-works documentation). There is no follower minimum: eligibility depends on completing Brillay's own Stripe setup, not on a subscriber or follower count from another platform.

Frequently asked questions

Is a remix or mashup a custom request or a Paid Question?

It is a custom request. A remix is a delivered audio file, so sell it with Custom Work, which supports follower file attachments on the order and a delivery package of a note plus up to 5 files.

Do I need the original artist's permission to sell a mashup?

In most cases, yes. A remix or mashup is generally a derivative work built on the underlying song's copyright (U.S. Copyright Office), and the Section 115 compulsory license does not cover an arrangement that changes the basic melody or fundamental character of the work without the express consent of the copyright owner (17 U.S.C. § 115(a)(2)). A private delivery to one paying follower is still a commercial use and is not a safe harbor. This page is not legal advice; clear rights or consult a qualified music attorney before selling remix work built on songs you do not control.

What are the actual penalties for selling an unlicensed remix?

Statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c) run from $750 to $30,000 per work infringed, and a court may increase the award to as much as $150,000 per work where the infringement is found to be willful (17 U.S.C. § 504(c)). Whether any specific claim would be brought or succeed varies case by case, which is why rights clearance is the practical answer rather than a risk calculation.

How long can a follower wait for a custom remix?

You set a custom request delivery promise of up to 5 days, with 5 days as the maximum. Set a realistic window inside that ceiling: a modeled 1–3 hours of production for a two-track mashup usually fits a 48-hour promise, while a modeled 6–12 hours for a full genre remix is better published at the 5-day maximum.

What should I actually charge for a two-track mashup?

Modeled against the O*NET 2025 median of $35.16 an hour for sound engineering technicians, 1–3 hours of blending, editing, and mixing works out to roughly $35–$105, which rounds to a $38–$100 tier. That range is a modeled estimate from a public wage benchmark, not survey data and not an earnings claim.

What if a follower submits a request I can't legally or technically do?

Decline and refund it. Brillay's Custom Work documentation states that an out-of-scope request can be declined and refunded. A clear scope limit in the listing — song count, style, and what triggers a decline — reduces how often the situation comes up, and an unclearable rights situation is a legitimate reason to decline.

How much does card processing cost on top of Brillay's platform fee?

Stripe's published pricing lists 2.9% + $0.30 as the typical US domestic online-card rate, plus 1.5% for international cards.

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