DOWNLOAD LEGAL BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR VIDEOS & PRESENTATIONS

Where you can find background music on the Internet for your videos or presentations?

You have two clear options:

Let’s dive into the ups and downs of each one of them.

Most people, when they see free music, believe that they can use it without any problem, but it’s not always like that. As we will see, YouTube and other social networks have algorithms that detect automatically if the music is your property or not.

1. Purchase the Licenses to use Royalty-Free Music

This first option is the best one if we want to add high-quality music to our Youtube videos, corporate presentations and social media in order to avoid future problems.

Good news is that today there are monthly subscriptions through which you can download all the music you need.

There are several pages specialized in the sale of background music licenses, the best known of which is Envato Elements, with a cost of 14.50€/month.

Its advantages are:

In addition to Elements, another of the portals from which to acquire all the music we need is called Epidemic Sound.

It is the service used by the most famous YouTubers today, as it offers a monthly subscription focused on this social network, called ‘Creator Subscription’, which starts at 13€ per month for small channels.

2. Download the songs for free under Creative Commons Licenses

This option is well-suited for videos or presentations that are only for strictly personal use.

You will always have to check on every webpage under what type of Creative Commons license the music is (by reading its terms of use) and you must attribute the author of the song, that is, you will have to compulsorily put in the description of the video or somewhere of the presentation that the music is theirs.

The main benefit, of course, is that we will not have to pay for the songs, but then the inconveniences are many:

Best places to download free background music are:

The importance of music copyrights on the Internet

Why do we have to care about copyrights?

Big websites like Youtube, Facebook or Instagram have algorithms that search and compare automatically the visuals and music for every one of the videos uploaded.

If they detect that has been a copyright violation, they can mute or block your video, making you waste your time and efforts.

If you want to use the music for a corporate video, imagine how awkward could be presenting a project to your boss or colleagues that suddenly has no sound on it.

Example of video blocked on Youtube

Advantages when using Royalty-Free Music

Envato Elements has a built-in search engine from which we can type a keyword that defines the type of song we are searching for (rock, groove, cinematic, hip-hop, electronic, jazz…) and it will show us hundreds of results so we can start listening and choose the one that better suits our needs.

Purchasing the background music from there we can have peace of mind that we will be using 100% legal songs and we will not have subsequent problems with rights.

You can learn more about this topic in our in-depth guide called what is royalty-free music.