The Best Royalty Free Music for Premiere Pro: 10 Tracks and Playlists to Bring Your Videos to the Next Level
Jourdan Aldredge
Nov 21, 2024
While there will always be a debate about which video editing software is ultimately the best option for content creators, we’re here to say that there is no right or wrong answer. The right video editing software for you will always be the one you’re most comfortable using.
That said, if you are trying to decide which NLE is right for you, you can’t go wrong with Adobe Premiere Pro. It’s been one of the best and most popular options for the past decade, and with a focus on new AI-powered tools and features, it promises to stay at the forefront of the future of video editing.
Still, despite all the AI upgrades and workflow speedups for video, finding the best royalty free music for Adobe Premiere Pro edits isn’t quite as easy—at least if you’re not using Soundstripe.
So, to help you find the best music to use in your videos, and more specifically the best royalty free music for Premiere Pro, let’s give you some hand-selected songs, recommended playlists, and tips for using high-quality royalty free music for your content.
10 top royalty free songs to use in Adobe Premiere Pro
To get started, let’s give you what you came here for—some of the best royalty free music available anywhere to use in Premiere Pro or wherever you might want to distribute your video content.
What’s great about Premiere Pro—as many will attest—is that it’s a versatile video editing platform that is great for both beginners and advanced editors. It’s also a great program to use for a variety of content types, so for our song recommendations, we’ve tried to provide a wide range of music types that span several genres and musical styles.
Here are our top ten royalty free songs to use in Adobe Premiere Pro:
- Description: A low-energy, hip-hop song best described as chill and fun. Bass and synth bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 86
- Key: D Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, acoustic song best described as inspiring and hopeful. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 150
- Key: F Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A very low-energy, acoustic song best described as calm and reflective. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy pop song best described as chill and quirky. Whistling and guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 140
- Key: Ab/G# Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A high-energy rock song best described as fun and inspiring. Ambient tones and drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 135
- Key: B Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy rock song best described as fun and happy. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 170
- Key: E Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy pop song best described as fun and happy. Organ and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 135
- Key: A Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song best described as chill and fun. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 80
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song best described as fun and happy. Rhodes and synth are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 122
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, hip-hop song best described as inspiring and suspenseful. Horns and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 90
- Key: G Minor
- Listen and license here
These are just ten songs from our vast collection, which you can explore in our full catalog on our Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
We also should make sure that we’ve covered all of our bases here and answer any questions that you might have about what royalty free music is and how music licensing for video works. If you have questions about music for video, here’s a great primer on what royalty free music means.
To understand how music 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 short films or other projects, you’ll need to obtain permission from the copyright owners.
Royalty free music can be a great option for all your edits 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 of royalty free music for Premiere Pro
Now that we’ve covered some basic terms and definitions, we can get back to giving you some quality music to use in your Premiere Pro projects. We’ve also mentioned that our Soundstripe catalog has a huge collection of royalty free songs, so to further help you explore our library, here are some curated playlists which could be great options to delve through to find the best royalty free music for your Premiere Pro edits.
Description: Collection of orchestral and cinematic score tracks.
Description: Pop music curated for marketing and advertising campaigns
Description: Vibey, understated Pop songs
Description: Upbeat tunes are trending among our vloggers and social media content creators.
Description: Whether you want to stay in tune with the freshest stuff in Soundstripe's library or just want a playlist handpicked by people with superb taste, you’re in the right place.
Of course, there is always going to be more music to listen to, so if you’d like to keep exploring options for your Premiere Pro projects, check out these additional playlists here.
Tips for using royalty free music in Premiere Pro
Just as there are no right or wrong answers for which video editing software you should use for your projects, there are no right or wrong answers to how you should edit your videos.
However, there are plenty of tips, tricks, and resources for those looking to level up their video editing skills, speed up their workflows, and improve their videos’ quality overall.
And this is true when it comes to working with royalty free music in your Premiere Pro projects as well. So here are some helpful tips for working with music and audio in your edits.
- If you’re interested in editing video content directly on your smartphone or mobile device, try Adobe Premiere Rush.
- Consider downloading preview tracks to use as placeholders in your Premiere Pro edits before deciding if a track is right for your project.
- Try out different Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts to speed up editing your audio and video in Premiere Pro.
- Be sure to check out our library of royalty free sound effects to give your edits even more impact in Adobe Premiere Pro.
- To streamline the process of adding royalty free music to your Premiere edits, check out the Soundstripe extension for Premiere Pro as well as some other useful plugins and extensions.
- Try out Soundstripe’s AI Song Editor to instantly edit your audio track to match the length of your Premiere Pro projects.
At the end of the day, though, editing video can be very fun and creatively rewarding. So, if you have the time to spare (thanks in part, perhaps, to using some of our recommended royalty free music tracks above to save time), feel free to explore all of the amazing Premiere Pro AI tools and features available.