How to Find the Best Adobe Express Music - 10 Royalty Free Tracks & Playlists to Power Your Projects
Jourdan Aldredge
Mar 11, 2025
When creating projects in Adobe Express, there are a lot of techniques and tricks to learn. And while many Adobe Express skills will have to do with design and graphics, one area many creatives often forget is one of the most important.
Adobe Express is a powerful tool that goes beyond just creating resumes and logos. If you’re looking to use Adobe Express to make any content that incorporates video components, you’re going to want to use royalty free Adobe Express music to help boost your projects.
From Instagram Reels and TikToks to interactive slideshows and dynamic webpages, let’s share some of our top picks for the best royalty free music to use with your Adobe Express projects.
We can also share some additional tips and tricks for using music and sound effects in your Express edits and even help you get up and running with our Soundstripe Express add-on.
Getting started with Adobe Express
As mentioned above, Adobe Express is a dynamic content creation tool that is paradoxically both very easy-to-use, yet also quite powerful and tricky to master. For simple tasks, Adobe Express is a great option for basic graphics, web pages, PDF documents, and other digital assets.
However, Adobe Express becomes trickier when creating videos for short-form, vertical-format apps like TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. Luckily, there are many helpful guides for getting started with Adobe Express.
Once you’re up and running with video, adding music to your Adobe Express edits will be one of your next biggest concerns. Luckily again, adding music to Adobe Express isn’t a huge task either. The real trick is finding the right music. This is why we’re here to help provide for you and your projects’ needs.
10 best royalty free Adobe Express music tracks
Regardless of the type of content you’re looking to create, the Adobe Express music you choose for the soundtrack for your content will be crucial to helping you tell the story you’re trying to tell.
As any filmmaker or professional videographer can tell you, music is the life and soul of video. Picking the right royalty free music track for your videos can transform a mundane, boring video into an engaging, award-winning work of art.
To help you boost your Adobe Express content, we’ve selected a group of high-quality, royalty free music tracks for you to consider using in your edits. These tracks cover a wide range of genres and styles, but they would all be great options for your Adobe Express projects.
1. Unnecessary Behaviour by Tony Sopiano
- Description: A high-energy, hip-hop song best described as happy and fun. Synth and organ are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 89
- Key: Bb/A# Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song best described as happy and fun. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 110
- Key: F Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A high-energy rock song best described as happy and angry. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 95
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, acoustic song best described as inspiring and hopeful. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 138
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song best described as chill and inspiring. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 102
- Key: B Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A high-energy rock song best described as inspiring and hopeful. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 160
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A high-energy, hip-hop song best described as happy and fun. Drums and electronic drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 126
- Key: Gb/F# Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy pop song best described as inspiring and hopeful. Synth and guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 108
- Key: Ab/G# Major
- Listen and license here
9. Sunset In The Country by Joachim
- Description: A low-energy, acoustic song best described as inspiring and hopeful. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 93
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
10. Penn Station by Ghost Beatz
- Description: A low-energy, hip-hop song best described as chill and hopeful. Drums and electronic drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 90
- Key: Ab/G# Minor
- 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?
Now, as we go over some tips and tricks for using these royalty free music tracks in your Adobe Express edits, let’s backtrack quickly to some basic terms and phrases. 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 with Adobe Express projects
Unlike more advanced video editing apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, or Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Express is a bit more unique in its approach to video editing.
Adobe Express isn’t a traditional non-linear editing platform based on a timeline; it’s more like smartphone editing apps like CapCut or Adobe Premiere Rush. To get the most out of the experience, it’s best to recognize both the limitations and the advantages. Adobe Express is great for those looking to create videos quickly or within the context of larger projects.
With that in mind, here are some tips for working with music, specifically in Adobe Express.
- Understand the needs of your project and look for music that reflects the theme of the story you’re telling to your audience, whoever that may be.
- 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.
Also, it should go without saying, but if you’re looking to work with Soundstripe music in your Adobe Express edits then you should absolutely be using the Soundstripe Adobe Express add-on.
The Soundstripe Adobe Express add-on will make the searching for, importing, and even licensing of royalty free music and sound effects in your Adobe Express workflows much more seamless and integrated. To help bring your creative vision to life, check out these other Adobe Express add-ons for light effects, narration, text gradients and more
The rest will be up to you to find the right edits for your Adobe Express projects, whatever they may be.