The Music Licensing Club: Eric Campbell's $9 Skool

The Music Licensing Club is a $9 a month community on Skool run by Eric Campbell from Tucson, Arizona, and on 5 September 2026 it held 381 members and earned $4,722.08 a month, ranked 27th in Music. It is the cheapest door and the largest roster in this batch, run by exactly one admin.

It is also collecting $12.39 per member against a $9 button, which is 137.7% of its own listed price.

Who is Eric Campbell?

Eric Campbell is the founder and sole admin of The Music Licensing Club, listed on Skool under the handle ericmakesmusic with Tucson, Arizona as his location. His profile title describes him as a music creator and sync licensing expert sharing what he has learned from over a decade writing songs for TV, films and ads. His about page names placements including Chicago Fire, Blue's Clues and Baby Shark, advertising work for BMW, Nissan, Mountain Dew and Snickers, and a role as a sync agent representing more than 1,000 songs.

Eric Campbell

Founder of The Music Licensing Club, opened on Skool on 21 August 2025 and run as a one-person operation from Tucson, Arizona. The placement credits, brand campaigns and the figure of 1,000 or more songs represented appear on his about page and are his to make; we have not checked any of them, and the named shows and brands are trademarks of their respective owners. The member count, price, review score, post count and revenue in this piece were read off the live about page and the public Skool Games board on 5 September 2026.

What does the about page say?

It opens by denying the premise of the entire creator-music economy, names the buyers, then produces the credential. Below is that copy as published, with emoji replaced by plain markers, bullet markup converted to plain bullets and curly apostrophes set straight, and nothing else altered, which is how we set marked-up copy here. Hover a number for our reading.

How does a $9 room collect $12.39 a member?

Through tiers the page does not price. This room carries three membership products, standard, premium and vip, and Skool publishes only the cheapest. $4,722.08 spread across 381 listed accounts is $12.39 each, which is 137.7% of the $9 button, and no mix of $9 seats and free seats can average above $9.

That makes the $9 an admission price rather than a revenue price. It is low enough that the decision costs a buyer almost nothing to make, it filters out very few people, and it puts 381 people inside a room where the higher tiers and the pitch opportunities are visible. The revenue is being earned above the door, not at it.

The trade-off shows up in the review count. Three published reviews on a 380 day old room with 381 members is roughly one review per 127 accounts, and at 4.7 it is the only score under 5.0 in this batch. One explanation is that a cheap door admits people who are less committed, and less committed members review less often; we cannot test that from outside.

Music licensing compared with the platforms musicians already use

Most musicians meet this business from the other side, as a catalog they upload to. The distinction this community sells is between placing your music yourself and licensing it through a marketplace, and the two have different economics.

This page sells the first two routes. The 90-Day Pitch-Ready Catalog builds the asset, the Vault of Licensing Agencies is the contact list, and the pitch opportunities are presumably routed through the founder's own agent relationships, though the page does not say so. That last item is the only one a competitor cannot copy by writing better courses.

None of the platforms above are affiliated with this community, and figures for what any of them pay vary widely by deal and are not published in a way that supports a fair comparison. If you are choosing between them, read each platform's own current terms.

The formula you can copy

Deny the premise the whole niche is built on. "Without fans or streams" is a bigger promise than any feature list, and it works because the reader has already failed at the thing being denied. Every niche has one of these sentences available.

Name the buyer, not the audience. TV networks, filmmakers, advertisers and libraries is a market a musician can actually picture calling. That specificity is what turns an abstract dream into a plan.

Use checkable credentials. Named shows and brands can be verified by anyone with a search bar, which is a different class of proof from a revenue screenshot. Print the open-ended ones, such as "100's of placements," as the claims they are.

Put the door on the floor and the revenue above it. $9 with a free trial removes every reason not to look, and the 137.7% collection rate says the money is upstairs. It is the same structure we read at Practice Room Pro with a free front door, and it is the opposite of the $500 door in this same batch. For the sync-side alternative in the same category, see The Sync Alliance.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Music Licensing Club on Skool?

It is a private paid Skool community founded by Eric Campbell on 21 August 2025 that teaches musicians to create and license music for companies rather than build an audience. On 5 September 2026 it listed 381 members, 1 admin, 1,046 posts and 15 courses across 124 modules, including a 90-Day Pitch-Ready Catalog, a directory of licensing agencies, pitch opportunities, song feedback and weekly live coaching.

How much does The Music Licensing Club cost?

$9 a month on the join button as displayed on 5 September 2026, with a free trial enabled. The room runs three membership tiers, standard, premium and vip, and only the entry price is public. The revenue per member of $12.39 is above the $9 button, so the paid tiers above it are where the business actually sits.

How do I get my music on TV shows?

The practical route has three parts: write to what productions actually license rather than to your own artistic brief, register with a performing rights organisation so broadcast royalties can reach you, and get your catalog in front of the people who choose songs, which means music supervisors, sync agents or libraries. What a community like this sells is the third part, because the first two are learnable from free material and the third depends on relationships.

How much does it cost to license a song?

There is no standard figure. A sync fee for a national television advertisement using a well-known recording can run to six figures, while a cue placed in a background scene through a library may pay a small fee plus performance royalties collected later. The price depends on the media, territory, term and how well known the recording is, which is why productions with small budgets license from catalogs of unknown writers.

What is the difference between music licensing and music publishing?

Publishing is the ownership and administration of the composition itself, including collecting royalties. Licensing is the act of granting permission to use it in a specific context. A sync licence typically needs clearance from both the composition side, held by the publisher, and the recording side, held by whoever owns the master, which is why writers who own both are easier for productions to clear.

How much does The Music Licensing Club earn?

$4,722.08 in monthly recurring revenue according to Skool's public leaderboard on 5 September 2026, ranked 27th in Music and 1,468th globally, with a thirty day change of plus $666.50, or 16.4%. Across the 381 listed accounts that is $12.39 each, which is 137.7% of the $9 sticker and is most readily explained by paid tiers above the published one.