Jingle Singer Vocal Career - Tips For Getting This Work
Jingle singers are a sub-field of session singers, which is just an abbreviated term for "recording session singers". Session singers includes background singers for recordings, demo singing for songwriters, duet, solo and group singing for all kinds of media projects, and for which a singer is paid a set fee or residual schedule. What is the typical compensation for singing jingles? The niche of jingle singer has been drying up for many years. In times gone by, every product on the market had its own jingle -- usually with a memorable melody AND lyric -- which meant it had to be sung. Now there are few signature jingles you see on TV, and those are often just instrumental tracks. Nevertheless, jingles are still sung, and a whole lot of money is still made from them in residual income. There are local, regional and national jingles. $12,000 and more from a single 13 week run of a national spot is common. For jingle singers, joining the singer's union AFTRA