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Royalty-free music for videos, social media, podcasts, and business projects
Find royalty-free music for your video, podcast, social media, business spaces, or other business projects and quickly understand when this route makes sense for you.
- listen to and search royalty-free tracks right away
- quickly see what fits your project
- better understand when royalty-free status becomes important
What you get here
- Royalty-free music for commercial projects such as videos, social media, podcasts, and more.
- With a license document for every download.
- Including track variants and numerous formats.
- As a one-time purchase or in a music subscription: for occasional users or ongoing needs.
- Choose from over 35,500+ tracks and variants
Important for your search
When royalty-free music is especially useful
Royalty-free music is especially relevant when you want to use music publicly and avoid additional PRO fees. This is particularly common for events, in business spaces, or for on-site background music.
When music is played at events, in stores, reception areas, hospitality, or other publicly accessible spaces, the PRO question quickly becomes practical. Then royalty-free music is often the obvious route because it can avoid these ongoing fees.
Important for social media: If you are looking for music for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or other major platforms, you do not always have to limit yourself to royalty-free tracks. The major platforms have blanket agreements with the collecting societies, which means that with the right usage license, tracks subject to collecting-society rights can also be used without additional PRO fees for you.
That is why Audiocrowd offers not only royalty-free music for social media, but also suitable P.R.O. tracks. This gives you a significantly broader selection than providers offering only royalty-free music, whenever the platform and the project allow that route.
If you are searching specifically for social media, it is often worth looking at the full catalog too. Go to the full catalog · See music for social media
Direct entry points for public use
If you are specifically looking for royalty-free music for public use, you can jump straight into the relevant areas from here.
Quick entry points
Typical use cases for royalty-free music
For video and content
Videos and advertising
Are you looking for royalty-free music for a video, a commercial, or another content project?
Royalty-free music for video and contentFor recurring formats
Social media and podcast
Do you need royalty-free tracks for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or a podcast?
See royalty-free music for social mediaFor spaces
Business spaces and practice
Are you looking for royalty-free music for stores, reception areas, hospitality, courses, or practice rooms?
See royalty-free music for spacesP.R.O.?
P.R.O. or search more broadly?
For some projects, royalty-free is the right route. For social media or platform-based projects, however, it can also make sense to look at the full catalog.
P.R.O. navigatorListen to fitting tracks right away
Search and preview royalty-free music
Here you will find royalty-free tracks for business projects, from video and social media to podcasts, business spaces, and company content.
Listen to fitting tracks right away and filter the music that fits your project.
For social media on large platforms, more may be possible depending on the case than just royalty-free music: Go to the full catalog · See music for social media
Next steps
Pricing & products
For a specific project
Single project
You need royalty-free music for a single video, a podcast, a campaign, or another specific project.
For ongoing content
Recurring need
You publish content continuously or regularly manage spaces and do not want to start from scratch for every new project.
P.R.O.? Or more?
PRO status unclear
You are looking for royalty-free music but are unsure whether your project could also use additional tracks from the full catalog. Use our P.R.O. Navigator.
Common questions from search
Common questions about royalty-free music
What does royalty-free music mean?
Royalty-free music is music that does not trigger additional PRO fees for the intended use. It still needs to be licensed properly. This is especially relevant for public use, for example at events, in business spaces, in hospitality, or as on-site background music.
When is royalty-free music useful for companies?
It is especially useful when companies use music publicly and want to avoid ongoing PRO costs. This applies in particular to events, retail spaces, reception areas, hospitality, studios, practice rooms, and other places where music plays regularly or continuously. The main benefit is a predictable, transparent cost base without additional PRO follow-up fees for the intended use.
Can I use royalty-free music for social media or videos?
Yes. Royalty-free music is a very good option for videos, advertising, podcasts, and many other professional projects. For social media on major platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, even more is often possible: these platforms have blanket agreements with the collecting societies, which means that with the right usage license, tracks subject to collecting-society rights can also be used without additional PRO fees for you. That is exactly why Audiocrowd offers not only royalty-free music for social media, but also P.R.O. tracks and therefore more choice than purely royalty-free providers.
Is royalty-free music automatically free?
No. Free only describes the price. Royalty-free answers whether additional PRO fees apply to the intended use. Professional royalty-free music is licensed in the normal way. The difference is not “free of charge,” but clearly calculable costs and no additional PRO follow-up fees for the licensed use.
What is the difference between royalty-free and license-free music?
Royalty-free is the more precise term because it directly answers the PRO question. License-free is often used more broadly in the market when someone is simply searching for music for a project. For companies, events, spaces, and other public uses, what usually matters more is whether additional PRO fees apply and what exact license is in place.
Is royalty-free status alone always enough?
No. Royalty-free status solves the PRO question, but it does not replace the actual license. What still matters is where you use the music: at an event, as background music in a business, in a video, in advertising, or on social media. On Audiocrowd, you receive a license document for every download with the relevant information about the work, the author, and the permitted use. That is what creates the certainty companies and professional users need.
End-to-end music and audio solutions for companies
Different use cases require different paths, products, and licensing models. Here you can see the most important Audiocrowd areas at a glance.
Video, advertising & content
For image films, campaigns, social media, podcasts, and other content formats with the right licensing path.
Events
For corporate parties, trade fairs, conferences, and other live events with clear on-site licensing.
Courses & workshops
For yoga, courses, seminars, and other formats where music needs to be licensed cleanly for class usage.
Practice rooms
For waiting rooms, therapy rooms, treatment rooms, and calm reception areas with curated music packages.
Instore & business spaces
For shops, hospitality, wellness, reception areas, and other business spaces with ongoing background music.
Phone messages & voice
For professional phone messages, voicemail prompts, and other voice productions with voice talent and configurator.
