The Best Royalty Free March Madness Music: Top 10 Tracks to Fuel Your March Madness Marketing Campaigns
Jourdan Aldredge
Feb 27, 2025
As anyone managing marketing and promotional schedules for a calendar year can tell you, the winter to spring transition is one of the busiest seasons in terms of major, marketable events.
From the Super Bowl to the Oscars, and with commemorative black history and women’s history months on the calendar, it can be challenging to plan, create, and execute content for all of the seasonal events.
If you’re feeling the rush for this year’s calendar, let’s help you get a leg up on one of the most fun events this season. The annual March Madness men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are about to tip off once again and we’re here to help you with the most crucial element behind the video and content powering your March Madness marketing and campaigns.
Let’s look at some of the best royalty free March Madness music and explore how you can use these energetic, engaging, and high-quality tracks in your content this season.
What is March Madness?
As mentioned above, “March Madness” refers to the wonderful time of the year when 68 men's and women's collegiate Division 1 basketball teams compete against each other for the titles of national champions.
With a long and storied history that dates back to the 1930s for the men’s tournament and the 1980s for the women’s tournament, March Madness occupies an important space for every sports fan’s yearly calendar.
For marketers, advertisers, and content creators, the important thing to know is that March Madness is a chaotic three-week period that covers a huge amount of game time at locations across the United States. Millions of fans tune in and root for their favorite teams.
10 best royalty free March Madness songs for your marketing campaigns
When creating content for this special time of the year, the brands that are most able to capture the excitement and buzz of this winner-take-all format are the ones that most often stand alone at the top.
If you plan on creating any number of videos and creative assets for this year’s March Madness tournaments, we’re here to help you provide the best soundtracks for your content needs.
Hand-picked by our Soundstripe curation team, here are ten of our top picks for the best royalty free March Madness music tracks for your marketing videos and campaigns.
1. This is My Time by Ivy States
- Description: It's a perfect hype track for a head-to-head competition.
- Listen and license here
- Description: Retro synths and bumping bass lines drive this bop.
- Listen and license here
3. Dawg by Gee Smiff, INNXCENT
- Description: Aggression and inspiration to be the king or queen of the hardwood.
- Listen and license here
- Description: Drumline and bombastic horns elevate the game above the rim.
- Listen and license here
- 5. Big Baller Reel by Ghost Beatz
- Description: Pulsing subs and an active trap beat to get the work in.
- Listen and license here
- Description: Epic strings provide the swagger to this game-day anthem.
- Listen and license here
7. Know The Game by Lil Red Sky
- Description: A track with the confidence of a basketball superstar.
- Listen and license here
- Description: Dominate the court with this track that has the juice.
- Listen and license here
9. The Fox of Floor Street by Tony Sopiano
- Description: Claim your prize with this powerhouse bass and beat.
- Listen and license here
- Description: Lock in with this certified banger.
- Listen and license here
You can also further explore these tracks and preview them more easily by checking out this full playlist below:
Description: Hype the crowd with these jams curated to celebrate the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.
These are just a few of the top tracks that have been picked out by Soundstripe curators. With over 10,000 songs and plenty of additional styles, tones, and genres to explore, you’re more than welcome and encouraged to listen to our complete catalog of royalty free music on our Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
Before we move into looking at some tips and tricks for using said royalty free music in your videos and assets, let’s go over some basic terms and phrases that we’ve been throwing around. 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 March Madness content
Now that we’ve shared some recommended March Madness tracks and gone over some basic terminology for music licensing, let’s discuss some tips and tricks for using high-quality, royalty free music in your videos and content.
There are nearly an endless number of ways to edit and add music, though, and perhaps more easy-to-use video editing apps available today than ever before. For example, did you know that you can even add Soundstripe music directly to your projects in Adobe Express with the Soundstripe Adobe Express add-on?
So, pick the video or content editing platform that feels like the right option for you and your editing skills and try to keep these tips in mind.
- If you like the music of any artists recommended above, you can explore more of their tracks by going to their artist pages.
- For March Madness content specifically, look for high-energy and epic-sounding songs that will help energize your content and help you better connect with the heightened emotions of NCAA basketball.
- 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.
At the end of the day, there’s no right or wrong way to create energetic and engaging content for your March Madness content needs. The real trick is to simply connect with the competitive spirit of the tournaments and create content that can help connect your brands with the joy of the competitions.