Music for YouTube videos
With an Epidemic Sound subscription, you can access more than 50,000 tracks to use safely in your YouTube videos. Stop worrying about licensing complexities and start focusing on what you do best — creating.
Find music for your YouTube videos
Looking for the best music to use in your YouTube videos?
Need inspiration? Check out our catalog’s most popular tracks. This one-hour playlist includes everything from pop, orchestra, and soul to electronic music and acoustic tracks.
Is Epidemic Sound’s music copyright-free?
‘Copyright-free music for YouTube’ is a popular search term, but does copyright-free music even exist? More or less all music is protected by copyright — if you come across a ‘copyright-free’ track, it’s probably either very old and considered public domain, or not truly copyright-free.
An Epidemic Sound subscription offers more than copyright-free music and goes beyond royalty-free music. We own all of the rights to the tracks in our catalog, directly licensing them to our subscribers. This removes the headache of licensing and lets you focus on your storytelling.
How do I avoid copyright claims on YouTube?
If you want to monetize content safely, you need to either own the rights, or have a license, to use the music you’ve chosen. With an Epidemic Sound subscription, you’ll steer clear of copyright complexities. Even if your subscription ends, your content will stay cleared forever.
Want to learn more about navigating copyright? Check out this blog article.
How do I use Epidemic Sound's music on YouTube?
With an active Epidemic Sound subscription, you can access, edit, and download over 50,000 high-quality tracks. Need more than one track? No problem — you can use as many as you need. To download a track, click the Download icon and choose to use the full mix, or specific stems.
Once you’ve downloaded your music, follow these steps to upload it to YouTube. After that, just connect your YouTube channel/s to your Epidemic Sound subscription to keep your content safe.
What happens to potential copyright claims if I end my subscription?
The videos you upload to YouTube during an active Epidemic Sound subscription will stay cleared forever, even if you cancel your subscription.
Is royalty-free music free to use on YouTube?
With an Epidemic Sound subscription, you’re free to use any of the music from our catalog on YouTube. Music is very rarely free to use, but you can use royalty-free music in your content without paying royalties to artists or rights holders every time it’s played. Epidemic Sound goes beyond royalty-free, removing the headache of licensing and freeing you up to do what you do best.
We exclusively own the rights to each of the 50,000+ tracks in our catalog, including public performance rights. Every song is composed by our signed artists, in collaboration with our in-house production team. This means our license includes all necessary rights to use the music from our catalog in your content. You can publish it anywhere online, including on YouTube.
Where do I find the best background music for my YouTube videos?
Browse our music page or check out our curated playlist for background music for videos — we’re sure you’ll find just the right sound for your content.
How do I find free music for YouTube?
Finding music that’s free to use in commercial content is rare, and if it is free, it’s usually not high quality. Or, if you choose ‘free’ music from YouTube’s built-in catalog, it comes with a compromise. Using popular music on monetized YouTube Shorts videos eats into your earnings, for example.
Epidemic Sound’s music only has one rights holder: us. As long as you’ve subscribed to the right plan and safelisted your YouTube channel, you can safely soundtrack your monetized content on the platform. Stop worrying about copyright claims and find the perfect soundtrack today.
Music for YouTube Shorts
YouTube Shorts videos are short video clips that you can create if you have a YouTube account. However, any YouTube Short that includes copyrighted content, and/or has a Content ID claim, will be blocked on YouTube. With an Epidemic Sound subscription, you can safely soundtrack and monetize your YouTube Shorts, even if they exceed one minute in length.
Want to learn more about YouTube shorts? Check out our articles below.
Everything you need to know about YouTube Shorts ->
YouTube Shorts monetization: How to make money from YouTube Shorts ->
More YouTube Resources
Interested in learning more about how you can use Epidemic Sound to soundtrack your YouTube videos? Check out our YouTube resources below.
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