Music Licensing for Storytellers
Browse independent artists. Pay once, walk away with a license PDF and the track. Use it forever.
Every planet is a genre. The strands are songs that live in two at once. Tap one to hear it.
Every planet is a country our artists call home. The strands join countries whose artists share genres. Tap one to hear it.
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Top genres Rock 126 Hip-Hop/Rap 110 Blues 104 Electronic 98 Folk 62
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Top genres Alternative/Indie 10 Rock 9 Hip-Hop/Rap 3 Vocal 2 Commercial 2
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Top genres Electronic 5 World/Regional 5 Afrobeats 5 Soul 3 Cinematic 1
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Top genres Pop 13 Rock 3 Holiday 3 Alternative/Indie 3 Country 3
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Top genres Cinematic 8 Electronic 3 Experimental 3 Classical 3 Commercial 1
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Top genres Production Music 15 Cinematic 14 Commercial 13 Easy Listening 1 Middle Eastern 1
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Top genres Hip-Hop/Rap 4
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Top genres Electronic 3
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Top genres Hip-Hop/Rap 2 Pop 1 Soul 1 Metal 1 Experimental 1
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Top genres Cinematic 1 K-Pop 1 Vocal 1
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Top genres Cinematic 1 New Age 1 Electronic 1
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All artists from Finland →No published tracks yet from Netherlands. 1 artist has joined.
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All artists from Paraguay →494 of 524 tracks carry a genre; planets show genres with 20 or more. Browse everything →
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Sync.Land music has been licensed by creators at
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Filter by mood, genre, BPM, and instrumental vs vocal. Hit play before you commit — every song streams full-length.
Free Sync License (attribution + view caps) for creators and community work. Commercial Sync ($49+) for monetized projects — covers YouTube, podcasts, ads, games.
Stripe checkout. Instant PDF license and MP3 download. Add an NFT receipt on Cardano if you want a timestamped record you hold yourself.
A sample of the catalog. Every song below is licensable today.
Two options. An on-chain receipt is an optional add-on to either.
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From $49
Yes. The Free Sync License covers monetized creator content on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and similar platforms up to 100,000 cumulative views and 12 months, with a credit to the artist and a link to sync.land in your description. Past the cap you have 30 days to buy a Commercial Sync License, which has no view cap, no time limit and no credit requirement.
The Free Sync License costs nothing. A Commercial Sync License is a one-time fee that the artist sets for each track; the default is $49. Sync.Land keeps 30% of the fee and the artist receives 70%. An on-chain record of the licence is optional and adds $5.00.
Ten reserved uses, listed in the licence: television programming, cinema release, advertising over US$25,000 in media spend or on broadcast media, originals for subscription platforms, games with a budget over US$1,000,000, trailers for any of those, resale of the track as music, endorsement or political use, AI training, and exclusivity. Those need a custom licence agreed with the artist. There is no checkout for it yet: use the contact form on the track’s page and the artist replies to you directly.
You need a free account, because the licence is issued in your name. There is no guest checkout. Payment is by card through Stripe, and the PDF licence certificate and the MP3 are in your account as soon as checkout finishes. Free Sync licences go through the same flow with no charge. You do not need a wallet: a Cardano address is asked for only if you add the optional on-chain record.
If you add it at checkout, the licence is minted through NMKR as a CIP-25 token on the Cardano preprod network and sent to the Cardano address you give. It is a timestamped, tamper-evident record of which track was licensed, by whom, when and under which licence version, and anyone can look it up on a block explorer without going through us.
It is not a rights claim. YouTube, Meta and TikTok do not read it, and it does not register your video with any content-identification system. If a video of yours is ever flagged, the PDF certificate is what you send.
Yes. Every licence has a public verification address at sync.land/wp-json/FML/v1/licenses/<id>/verify, which returns the licence type and version, the track, the artist and, where one exists, the on-chain transaction. The licence ID is printed on the certificate. No account or key is needed.
Partly generated music is accepted and labelled. Every artist answers one question at upload: was the audio recorded or performed, partly generated, or generated. Audio produced entirely by a generator has no copyright owner under current law, so it cannot be licensed and is not published here. A track marked partly generated is licensed for the parts the artist made.
A track the artist declared as partly generated carries a “Partly AI-generated” label on its song page, in catalogue rows and on its album page, so you see it before you choose. The declaration is written on every licence. On such a track the licence covers the human-authored elements only; the generated material is not licensed and not warranted. Tracks declared generated are not offered.
An artist profile, then a WAV or MP3 for each track, cover art, a title and a release date. One track is enough; a release takes up to twenty. Each track needs an ISRC, or a tick to say you do not have one yet, and your answer to how the audio was created. Every file is checked when it is uploaded: a file that cannot be read or has no sound is held back from licensing until you replace it, and you are told why.
You receive 70% of every Commercial Sync sale. When a track is licensed you get an email showing your share, we get in touch to arrange the payment, and a second email confirms when it has been sent. Free Sync licences carry no fee, so nothing is paid on them.
Music supervisors, game developers and other buyers post a brief describing what they need. Each one is reviewed before it goes on the board. Artists with an account pitch up to three tracks per brief; Sync.Land reviews each pitch and forwards it to the buyer, and you get an email whenever its status changes: forwarded, passed, interested or licensed. There are nine open briefs on the board today.
Every brief closes on the deadline shown on it. If a brief closes before a decision reached your pitch, the pitch shows as Brief closed in your dashboard. That is the window closing, not a rejection: your track was not turned down, and it stays in your catalogue for the next brief that fits.
Email info@sync.land from the address on your account and it is closed within two business days. Your profile, images and unlicensed tracks are deleted. Licences already issued stay valid, so a track that has been licensed stays on file for that licence only and is no longer listed. The Privacy Policy has the detail.
Independent artists upload their own catalogue and set their own terms. Each artist confirms at upload that they hold the rights to what they upload, and every track carries its own declaration of how the audio was made.
