Music for YouTubers: Where To Find Free Tracks

Search for music for YouTubers

1. YouTube Audio Library

How to avoid copyright on YouTube? Use YouTube Audio Library! The most obvious place where you can find music and sound effects for any occasion. Especially there is collected music, which will definitely help the channel to meet the requirements for YouTube monetization. Several thousand options, each of which pretty much fits any video unless you have some super specific requests for the design of your video.  The collection is also updated regularly.

2. Free Music Archive

This source offers a much wider selection of music shared by the authors themselves. There are two options for working with FMA – paid and free. For money, you can use their music in podcasts, social media, commercials, and even theater productions (just in case if you need it).  

3. SoundCloud

One of the most famous platforms with many musicians providing their tracks for free use. SoundCloud has a category called Creative Commons. The tracks are marked with a special license and are available for free use for commercial and non-commercial purposes, as long as you provide credit and an original link to the work.

Royalty-free music for YouTubers

1. Epidemic Sound

A platform with a huge library of copyright-free music, perfect for YouTube content. And the most importantly: it is available to all Mediacube partners absolutely free of charge!

2. Artlist

A popular platform specializing in providing royalty free music for video production. You can use tracks from here in your videos, ads, movies and so on. It has a large library, a royalty-free license (though paid, subscription-based), and there’s even creator support with helpful resources, tutorials, and collaboration opportunities.

Another option is to buy music on Jamendo

However, they also have free content here as well. Most tracks are available under a Creative Commons license, which allows the audio works to be used for commercial purposes. To buy audio, you need to select Music for Video on the main page of the website and you’ll see music collections sorted by genre, mood and ideas. 

Important points

Always check licenses. Even if the music is free or royalty free, be sure to read the terms of use to avoid getting into trouble.

Credit the source. If the creator of the track requires it to be mentioned in the video description, be sure to do so. It’s showing respect for the creative work of others.

Conclusion:

We hope we have covered your question how to add music to YouTube video. Now you’ll know exactly where to find free and royalty free music for youtubers and be confident that you’re not infringing on anyone’s copyright! And don’t forget that Epidemic Sound is free for Mediacube partners 🙂

Good luck!

By Andrew Masenzov

Andrew Masenzov

Wright at Mediacube. Professional journalist with 15 years of experience, copywriter, movie critic, and marketing Blog editor. He has been working at Mediacube for 4 years and is an expert in YouTube and other social platforms. He has written 500+ pieces of content for the corporate Blog and for third party publications.