In the first and second articles of our three-part series All About Music, we talked about the Why, How, and When to use music and sound effects. In this final part, we want to share with you 10 sites offering royalty-free* music (including 5 sites offering AI generated music) that can really up your game.

*Even though it's called "royalty-free", most of the time you still need to pay for it. But the good news is that you only pay once for royalty free music. And we believe good music is worth the price tag!

Epidemic Sound

Epidemic Sound is one of the most widely used sites (and our favorite) where creators can find high-quality background music. With a library of 35,000+ tracks updated every week, Epidemic has some of the best music offerings in the business. You can easily search music by different genres, moods, lengths, tempos, or vocals to find the perfect fit for your video. We love how Epidemic Sound bundles all the legal rights you’ll need into one main license that works across all social media platforms.

Artlist

Artlist is a beautiful music licensing site for video, film and YouTube. You’ll find over 22k great songs and more than 27k sound effects – updated daily. It’s easy to find exactly what you’re looking for, with all music categorised and curated by modes, genres, video themes and instrumentals, all of which you can use as filters to find the perfect track for your next project. You can even use the ‘For You’ page to get personalised suggestions, or the spotlight page to browse trending content.

Soundstripe

Geared up to provide production music solutions, Soundstripe differs from some of the sites we’ve touched on before in that it’s a subscription service, rather than a means of buying single license tracks.

Your membership enables you to gain access to unlimited licenses to their hand-picked music collection. If you’ve ever browsed Spotify’s playlists, then navigating Soundstripe’s curated libraries will be a doddle. It’s incredibly intuitive and easy to use.

Icons8

Great place to find some cool tunes. You can find thousands of tracks from small indie and jazz groups to classical pieces. Moreover, Icon8 provides not only music but video and photo stock, icons, as well!

YouTube Audio Library

If you have a Youtube account then you’ll also have free access to YouTube’s Audio Library. This is a list of thousands of royalty free music and sound effects that can be used in your content.

It’s easy to filter tracks by genre, mood, and license type. All tracks listed on the YouTube Audio Library are classed by YouTube as “copyright safe”, however some require attribution so be sure to check before using them in your video.

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