Best Royalty Free Chinese New Year Music: 10 Perfect Songs and Playlists for Festive Lunar New Year Videos
Jourdan Aldredge
Jan 7, 2025
As we collectively bid farewell to 2024 and welcome the new year of 2025, it’s important to remember that new year festivities are different across the globe. While New Year's Eve might be celebrated in one way in New York City, the new year is celebrated much differently in Beijing.
Yet, regardless of where you are in the world, in today’s digital world, we’re all connected through the internet, and we can share a great deal about our cultures via content creation.
So, if you’re gearing up to create some impactful video content for the Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year, we’re here to help you find the best soundtrack for your celebratory content.
Let’s review some curated royalty free Chinese New Year music playlists and track recommendations for your Chinese New Year content and give you some tips and tricks for creating Lunar New Year videos.
What is the Chinese New Year?
Before we give you some music recommendations for your New Year content, let’s quickly explore what we’re covering when we discuss the Lunar New Year and the Chinese New Year.
The Lunar New Year is simply the celebration of the beginning of the new year based on lunar calendars. These lunisolar calendars follow the lunar phases and have a New Year ceremony celebrated by numerous cultures across the globe on diverse dates.
The best-known of these Lunar New Year celebrations is the Chinese New Year. Based on the Chinese calendar, the Chinese New Year (also called the Spring Festival) is a celebration that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring and the new year.
The Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture and is associated with several myths and customs. These traditions vary within China, but most are regarded as occasions for Chinese families to gather for an annual reunion dinner and celebration.
10 top royalty free songs for Chinese New Year videos
If you’re looking for royalty free music to use for your various New Year's celebration videos, whether that be Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or other end-of-year festivities, we’re here to help you out.
Let’s look at some recommended tracks that would serve well as joyful and warm songs to provide the right tone for the soundtrack of your content
1. Every Kind Of Goodbye by Renderings
- Description: A jazz song that is best described as calm and joyful. The piano is the primary instrument in this track.
- BPM: 50
- Key: F Major
- Listen and license here
2. Flower's Dance by Dario Benedetti
- Description: A classical song that is best described as calm and reflective. Strings and woodwinds are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 120
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A jazz song best described as romantic and reflective. Horns and saxophone are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 164
- Key: E Major
- Listen and license here
4. Sandy Cheeks by Mikey Geiger
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song that is best described as joyful and warm. Synth is the primary instrument in this track.
- BPM: 120
- Key: A Major
- Listen and license here
5. Aisling’s Rise by Cody Martin
- Description: A warm classical song that is best described as sad and calm. Strings and harps are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: G Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A high-energy, electronic song that is best described as chill and warm. Percussion and synth are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 107
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
7. Times Like These by Andrew Galucki
- Description: A medium-energy, acoustic song that is best described as happy and fun. Ambient tones and drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 160
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
8. No Looking Back by Simple Thieves
- Description: A high-energy, electronic song that is best described as fun and chill. Synth and claps / snaps / stomps are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 115
- Key: Gb/F# Major
- Listen and license here
9. Celebrate The Season by Alsever Lake
- Description: A joyful acoustic song that is best described as happy and hopeful. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
10. Yangtze Dream by Door to Penglai
- Description: An ambient song that is best described as calm and reflective. Strings and ambient tones are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
These are just a few options for your New Year's content. If you’d like to further explore our vast royalty-free music collection, you can check out our full catalog on the Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
We also should spend some time quickly reviewing some basic music licensing terms we’ve mentioned so far. The most important phrase we’ve covered here is “royalty free,” a music licensing term that can sound a bit odd, but it’s quite simple. Here’s a great read on what royalty free music means.
To understand how music rights and royalties work, you must understand that all music has basic copyrights. These copyrights extend to both the composer of the music as well as the musicians who recorded the music. And if you want to use any music in any videos, you’ll need to obtain permission from the copyright owners.
Royalty free music can be a great option for all your videos simply because it’s easy to find and use. Soundstripe’s music is composed and recorded by Grammy-winning artists who know (and truly care) about making great music for all types of films and video content.
Our top playlists for royalty free music for Chinese New Year videos
In addition to the royalty free Chinese New Year music tracks we recommended above, let’s showcase some playlists featuring even more tracks that would be ideal for Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year videos.
Description: Upbeat, fun, dancey Jazz tracks to bring in the New Year
Description: Orchestral music that evokes thoughts of the rebirth of nature.
Description: Holiday and Winter-themed songs.
Description: Zen out to these low-energy soundscapes.
Description: Restful music curated to promote mental health awareness.
And, as always, there’s more music to explore with these additional playlists here.
Tips for using royalty free music in Chinese New Year videos
Once you do find the right songs that you’d like to use in any video content that you might be creating for the Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or any other type of celebratory content, let’s go over some simple tips and tricks to keep in mind that will make your video editing process easier.
- Consider downloading preview tracks to use as placeholders in your edits before deciding if a track is right for your project.
- Explore our library of royalty free sound effects to give your videos extra impact and engagement.
- Try out Soundstripe’s AI Song Editor to instantly edit your audio track to match the length of your videos.
New Year, in all cultures, is about reflection and renewal. As you create your content surrounding the new year, you must reflect and renew as a creator. Be sure to celebrate your successes and align your goals for the next year, too.