Music licensing commonly refers to ‘royalty-free music’ or ‘production music album<\/a>‘. This is music that has been written and produced with the sole purpose of being used in another project. Anyone can then license this music for a fee, to use in their project.<\/p>\n What about commercial music?<\/strong><\/p>\n Commercial music, written and performed by artists like Adele, M83, and U2 for example, cannot be used for any purpose other than personal\/private performance. When you buy a CD or download an MP3, it is specifically stated that you cannot do anything with that song or musical life track<\/a> except listen to it yourself. Any business use is prohibited, even playing it on the radio to customers at a hair salon.<\/p>\n To play commercial music to the public, a public performance licensed is required by the appropriate performing rights organization of that country. In the UK it may be PRS or PPL. In the US\/Canada, it may be BMI or ASCAP. These organizations arrange a fee to the proprietor of the business, based on the size of their business\/location. This can be expensive, and time-consuming just to play the radio to your customers on your premises but does permit the business to play the radio to its customers without legal issues.<\/p>\n This is not a suitable solution for music video production<\/a> and filmmaking, as the usage and purpose of music is not the same. As many video production companies produce content for clients, they need background music for their video\/film that is cleared for its intended purpose. When licensing commercial music, arranging such a license for online, public performance, in-store and mass distribution quickly becomes expensive and convoluted.<\/p>\n Royalty-free music licensing offers a simple and cost-effective solution to acquiring well-produced music with all necessary rights for the client, within an affordable, transparent license and good reggaeton artists<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n