The Best Royalty Free Music for Snapchat | 10 Perfect Tracks for Snaps, Stories & Loops
Jourdan Aldredge
Apr 1, 2025
As the video content creation world continues to evolve, it can be hard to keep track of which social video platforms are currently the most popular ones with different audiences.
One day, it can feel like all of the hippest influencers are on TikTok, engaging with an ever-growing userbase; the next day, you might hear that everyone’s moved to a new app like Lemon8 or Triller.
It can be a lot of work, but it’s never a bad idea to diversify your social content channels and explore launching yourself or your brand on as many platforms as possible. Snapchat is a good example of a popular social video network that has grown quickly and retained a large percentage of its audience over the years.
However, similar to other social video apps, there are some odd rules regarding how and what music you can use in your videos on the app. To help you make sure your content will always be in good standing and provide you with high-quality songs for you to use, here are some of our top selections for the best royalty free music for Snapchat videos.
Getting started with Snapchat
Yes, we know that while Snapchat has been around for over a decade, its heyday was in the mid-2010s, reaching over 160 million daily users around 2016. However, despite the rise in competition for social networks and video platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, Snapchat remains a popular option for audiences both young and old.
Snapchat has also evolved over the years as it moved from a person-to-person photo-sharing platform to more of a “Discover” format with ad-supported short-form content similar to TikTok and other scrollable video feed apps.
Getting started with Snapchat remains quite easy, though, as any aspiring creator or viewer can create an account and start viewing popular videos or connecting with family and friends. However, if you’re looking to launch your channel or brand on Snapchat, there are elements—like music copyrights—that you should consider.
10 best royalty free music for Snapchat
For most social purposes on apps like Snapchat, you should be able to record videos or take photos to share with friends and family. Snapchat allows for the creation of content based on popular audio clips, which are also mostly fair games for use on the platform.
However, suppose you want to create videos that you plan to share on multiple social platforms or utilize for any commercial or marketing purposes. In that case, you’re going to run into trouble with copyrights if you aren’t using music that you didn’t create yourself or properly license.
We’ll go over some of the nuances of music licensing below, but to help you out right away, here are some of our top picks of the best royalty free music for Snapchat videos, for you to consider using in your snaps, stories and loops.
These tracks cover a wide range of genres and styles, but they would all be great options for your Snapchat content.
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song best described as fun. Synth and guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 159
- Key: Db/C# Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy electronic song best described as chill. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 115
- Key: A Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song best described as hopeful and happy. Synth and drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 108
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy pop song best described as inspiring and hopeful. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 80
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy electronic song best described as chill and inspiring. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 85
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
6. Do It Anyway by Scarlett Solo
- Description: A high-energy rock song best described as angry and fun. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 129
- Key: E Minor
- Listen and license here
7. Leavin' This Town by Moses Kidd
- Description: A low-energy, acoustic song best described as calm and reflective. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 74
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
8. L'espoir D'argent by Lune Électrique
- Description: A medium-energy pop song best described as happy and fun. The bass and bass guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 118
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy electronic song best described as chill and reflective. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
10. Marigold by Shells by the Sea
- Description: A low-energy pop song best described as chill and hopeful. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 135
- Key: Gb/F# Major
- Listen and license here
Of course, these are just a handful of top tracks that Soundstripe curators have picked out. With over 10,000 songs and plenty more styles, tones, and genres to explore, you’re welcome and encouraged to listen to our complete catalog of royalty free music on our Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
Circling back to music licensing and copyrights, let’s help you with some basic terms and phrases you should know. Let’s specifically help define what “royalty free music” is and how it works. (Here’s a great article 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 permission from the copyright owners.
Royalty free music can be a great option for all your campaigns and content simply because it’s easy to find and use. Soundstripe’s music is composed and recorded by Grammy-winning artists who know how to make high-quality soundtracks and scores for all types of films and video content.
Tips for using royalty free music in Snapchat
Again, by its nature, Snapchat’s origins are in peer-to-peer photo and video sharing. However, as Snapchat has evolved over the years, it now operates much more closely akin to TikTok and Instagram Reels. This means that content creators on the platform must follow much stricter guidelines for what music they use and how they license songs for their content.
Along with practical licensing tips, here are some additional tidbits of information to help you with working with royalty free music in your Snapchat videos.
- When looking for music for the first time, consider downloading preview tracks to use as placeholders in your edits before deciding if a track is right for your projects.
- Be sure to check out our library of royalty free sound effects to help your videos feel bigger and more cinematic with impactful SFX.
- Try out Soundstripe’s AI Song Editor to instantly edit your audio track to match the length of your content and campaigns.
As the myriad of social video platforms these days continue to homogenize and operate in similar ways, the tips above should be helpful to apply to pretty much all of your social video content. By the same token, if you can find a way to create great content that connects with your niche audiences, you can expect to find success across all of your channels and platforms.