Universal just launched a claims-free music subscription service for content creators with 50,000 tracks and 200,000 sound effects

Common Manufacturing Music, a division of Universal Music Publishing Group has launched a brand new subscription music licensing service that gives content material creators with claim-free music and sound results for on-line movies.

Dubbed Universal Music for Creators, the brand new service provides customers limitless entry to a pre-cleared music and sound results library, beginning at $5.99 per 30 days.

This system options what Common says is over 50,000 “top-quality tracks” and 200,000 sound results, “powered by a workforce that’s consistently sourcing and creating the most recent sounds to satisfy the dynamic wants of immediately’s creators”.

Common clarifies within the FAQs that “claims-free music implies that as soon as you purchase a subscription license, no additional royalties are as a consequence of be paid by you for using the tracks”.

In launching Common Music for Creators, Common Music Publishing Group claims to be the primary main music writer to supply a subscription program to pre-cleared tracks that enable creators so as to add music and SFX to movies and podcasts with out copyright claims.

Common says that its Common Music for Creators service “permits its customers to seek out the fitting tracks at break-neck speeds, operate and over 80 recurrently up to date playlists tailor-made particularly for creator content material, curated by extremely seasoned TV and movie music administrators”.

At launch, the brand new service options varied guides together with one explaining how to use the service and what ‘Royalty-free music really means’.

Common Music for Creators presents two pricing tiers.

The ‘Creator’ tier begins at $5.99 per 30 days and provides customers limitless entry to the music and sound results library.

Additionally they get clearance throughout private YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitch platforms, podcasting channels, and private web sites, plus clearance for one channel per platform and one monetized YouTube channel.

Beginning at $12.99 per 30 days, the ‘Creator Professional’ tier is meant for business subscribers who use music and sound results for his or her enterprise or shopper work. This will embody freelancers, small companies, and self-employed people.

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In launching Common Music for Creators, the main music firm is launching a severe new rival to present royalty-free music platforms.

One such service is Sweden-headquartered royalty-free soundtrack supplier Epidemic Sound, which, in its current annual report revealed that its music is heard 2 billion instances a day on YouTube (up from 1.5 billion in 2020) and 14 billion instances per 30 days on TikTok.

Inside the report, co-founder and CEO Oscar Hoglund predicted that Epidemic’s music will quickly be heard 2.5 billion instances a day on YouTube.

Epidemic Sound’s music catalog options 40,000 tracks, together with 90,000 sound results.

Elsewhere within the royalty-free music sector, in 2020, KKR led a $48 million investment in Epidemic Sound rival Artlist, a royalty-free music and sound results firm that licenses content material to creators on YouTube.

In line with UMPG, the catalog of music now obtainable by way of the brand new Common Music for Creators service was beforehand solely obtainable to TV and movie industries, and “boasts extra tracks and SFX than every other claims-free music subscription service”.

UMPG provides that the brand new program “reinforces [its] strategic method and dedication to integrating artist-driven initiatives into its audio services and products”.

“Modern applications like this exemplify why Common Manufacturing Music continues to steer the trade.”

Jody Gerson, UMPG

Commenting on the launch, Jody Gerson, UMPG Chairman and CEO, stated: “Common Music for Creators delivers our unparalleled manufacturing music library to content material creators in all places for the primary time.

“Modern applications like this exemplify why Common Manufacturing Music continues to steer the trade.”

“We’re thrilled to change into the primary main writer to supply manufacturing music to content material creators as a subscription service and develop the accessibility of our music catalog.”

Jane Carter, Common Manufacturing Music 

Jane Carter, President of Common Manufacturing Music added: “We’re thrilled to change into the primary main writer to supply manufacturing music to content material creators as a subscription service and develop the accessibility of our music catalog.

“With a model heritage that signifies belief, high quality and status, Common Music for Creators will present inexpensive, hassle-free music and sound results for probably the most imaginative creators.

“We’re excited to offer yet one more revolutionary alternative to assist our proficient manufacturing music songwriters and composers.”

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Elsewhere at Univeral Music Manufacturing Music, MBW broke the news final yr that the corporate had quietly launched a pattern service referred to as Usample.

In line with the Usample web site, the service presents a catalog of round 7,000 “uncommon” tracks, that, Common says, come “from the depths of the [UMG] archive, digitised for the primary time because the unique pressings”.

It’s explained additional that every monitor on Usample’s web site was initially made as library music for TV and movie.Music Enterprise Worldwide