The Best Royalty Free Music for Animation: Top 10 Tracks and Playlists to Bring Your Animated Videos to Life
Jourdan Aldredge
Jan 23, 2025
The umbrella for what counts as “video content” these days has never been wider. From blockbuster feature films to 10-second TikTok dance videos, it’s hard not to generalize when discussing the nuances of making successful content. Yet, despite the wide range of content types, there are some universal truths to video content.
The biggest truth is that video content needs to be watchable to succeed. Content that is easy to access, understand, and process will always be in the best position to succeed.
Today, we’ll discuss animated videos and explore why this type of content is as certain as possible in the diverse world of video. Yet, while animation may seem simple at times, it is not easy to create.
That’s why we’re going to help give your content the best shot to succeed by providing you with some of the best royalty free music for animation available anywhere. Let’s check out some recommended tracks, playlists, and tips for using royalty free music with your animated content.
What are animated videos?
Okay, this might seem like a pretty easy question to answer, but it’s important to define animated videos and how they work. Animation is a filmmaking technique in which still images are manipulated to create moving images. This process can be traced back to the earliest days of cinema and employs techniques from well before that.
Within animation, though, there are many different types of animated videos. Here are some of the more common types of animated videos you might find online or want to explore making on your own.
- Stop motion animation
- Rotoscope animation
- Claymation
- 2D animation
- 3D animation
- Motion graphics animation
- Traditional cel animation
Many more styles of animation have developed over the years, too. However, these types will be the most popular for modern content creators. Yet, for most of us, digital animation will be our best bet for creating animated content today.
10 top royalty free songs for animated videos
We’ll explore some resources, tips, and tricks for creating animated videos a bit further below, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t share with you some of our top royalty free songs for animated videos here at the start.
Regardless of your desired animation type, you’re going to need a soundtrack for your animated videos. And soundtracks for videos are what we do best here at Soundstripe. Let’s take a look at some of our top picks for the best royalty free songs for your animated videos.
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song that is best described as chill and reflective. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: F Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song that is best described as chill and romantic. Bass and synth bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 117
- Key: G Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, funk song that is best described as fun and happy. Bass and bass guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 93
- Key: A Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy rock song that is best described as hopeful and inspiring. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 74
- Key: A Major
- Listen and license here
5. Tropical Dance by Material Gurl
- Description: A medium-energy corporate song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and xylophone/mallets are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: F Major
- Listen and license here
6. Curious Play by Cast Of Characters
- Description: A low-energy, corporate song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and xylophone/mallets are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 110
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy pop song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and bells are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 90
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, acoustic song that is best described as fun and happy. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 102
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song best described as chill and romantic. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song that is best described as happy and fun. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 103
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
These are just a few recommended animated video tracks from our royalty free music collection, which we encourage you to explore further in our full catalog on our Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
We’ve also mentioned a term here a few times that you might not be familiar with. “Royalty free music” is a music licensing phrase that can sound 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 animated videos 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 great music for all types of films and video content.
Our top playlists for royalty free music for animation
Further exploring where to find and license royalty free music for your animated videos, we’ve compiled some curated playlists featuring music tracks that would be great for animated content.
Description: Compilation of lyric-driven tracks that inspire and uplift.
Description: Cheerful pop tunes are trending among our corporate clients and advertisers.
Description: Whimsical arrangements for family films.
Description: Try to hear these songs and be sad. I dare you. No, I double-dog dare you.
Description: Wes Anderson, eat your heart out. It's a tad left of center, but it feels right this way.
Of course, we’ll always have more music for you to listen to, so if you’d like to keep exploring options for your animated videos, check out these additional playlists here.
Tips for using royalty free music in animated videos
Finally, once you’ve picked the perfect soundtrack for your animated videos, here are some helpful tips, tricks, and resources to remember when creating your content.
- Try Adobe Character Animator for a sophisticated yet easy-to-use animation program.
- Generative AI does quite well with animated videos these days, check out some different AI video models.
- Consider downloading preview tracks to use as placeholders in your edits before deciding if a track is right for your project.
- Check out our library of royalty free sound effects to give your animated videos extra energy and action.
- Try out Soundstripe’s AI Song Editor to instantly edit your audio track to match the length of your animated videos.
Remember that animation has not traditionally been an easy or quick process. It’s true that animation is easier now than ever before, but be sure to take your time and focus on leveling up your animation skills. Results will come when you can connect to your passion and create meaningful content to you and your audience.