Best Royalty Free Music Sites 2021
Best Royalty-Free Music 2021 |
So, let’s get started……
YouTube: The first One is YouTube itself. YouTube Actually Offers some Free Music for their music library for you to use in your YouTube videos. You can find this under the YouTube Studio then click Audio Library.It’s also worth noting that these music tracks you can only use in your YouTube videos. So if you are going to be repurposing your content or using your videos somewhere else outside of YouTube then the license for you to use these don’t cover that.
Free Music Archive: The next is Free Music Archive. Now, this is a big step up when it comes to free music. Then what you’re going to get on YouTube. There are so many options so many more music tracks and it even makes it pretty easy for you to find things with these simple categories the search functionality that they have in there.
The biggest thing you need to be aware of
with Free music Archive is again the licensing stuff. You really want to dive
in and make sure that you are compliant when you’re using their tracks. As a
general rule with Free Music Archive, you’re going to need to add credits
either into your video itself or into the description or any texts that are accompanying your video. You’re going to credits where you from music so Free Music
Archive, but likely also the artists that created it and any other required
information from Free Music Archive.
They’ll let you narrow it down by the genre
and even the mood that you’re looking to create in your videos to really help
you dial and filter down that massive library to something that is going to be
related relatively quickly.
One of the key differences with Epidemic though is that’s it’s not just a music library. There’s also a huge amount of sound effects in there as well that you can access to use in your videos and in regards to pricing and licensing, there are really two main options that you go to the epidemic. The first one is their personal plan, which they say is perfect for individuals soundtracking content on their personal channels.
To include it in that you get full access
to their library of 30,000 tracks and 60,000 sound effects with unlimited
downloads of any of those. All of the music and sound effects are cleared for
use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Twitch, and also podcasts as
well. And there’s also no limitation or restriction around the size of your
YouTube channel, which they used to have in a previous pricing model. If you
had a smaller channel, the price would be different to if you had a much larger
following. So, the personal plan is $15 per month or $144 for the year.
Now the Commercial Planner up form gives
you everything included in the personal, and you’re also covered here to use
these music tracks in any sort of digital advertising as well.
Now the last option that’s mentioned there, probably isn’t going to apply to most people but you’ll need to look at that if you are going to be creating something for broadcast, something for TV, even a The TV ad, then those aren’t covered under the previous subscriptions. But They do still offer as a different option the ability to purchase a license for an individual track starting at $99 per individual track and going up to nearly $2000 per track.
Artlist: Now this is one that we’ve been using and recommending for a long time and I really think that they have an amazing offer. Just like Epidemic, they’ve got a great catalog of music, and once again they make it easy to search through and find those music tracks. Now, I don’t know about you, but if you’ve ever sat down to try and find music, you sit there listening no, that’s not a fit by the next one no, that’s not a fit. That’s a mind-numbing process personally,But what I really like about Artlist, is I think make it the easiest out of the three options that I’m covering here to find music and that comes down to the categories that they have. They seem to go a level deeper when it comes to sorting through the music, which makes it so much easier for you to quickly find music tracks for your videos.
MUSICBED: This is another one that’s fairly
recently upgraded their pricing plans to now have an all you can eat
subscription model as well, which I think is fantastic. That’s not to say that
the other two are bad, But consistently musicbed, I would say has higher quality
music than both Epidemic and Artlist.