Royalty Free Music for Live Streaming Video Games: Top 10 Tracks and Playlists to Level Up Your Streams
Jourdan Aldredge
Dec 17, 2024
If you're ready to boot into the world of video game streaming, we’re here to help you get started. Thanks to video streaming platforms like Twitch and TikTok, streaming video games can be quite lucrative. Yet, just because it’s easy to start streaming videos doesn’t mean it’s necessarily easy to succeed in this industry.
To really make your video game streaming channels stand out and grow you’ll need to harness all of the production elements at your disposal. This means leveling up your camera, setup, and—perhaps most importantly—the music for your video game live streams.
Let’s focus on how royalty free gaming music will be your best bet to provide the soundtracks to your video game live streams and give you some hand-picked tracks and playlist recommendations to give your video game streams unlimited power and potential.
10 top royalty free songs for streaming video games
To start things off, let’s dive right into giving you some royalty free song selections to consider using for your video game livestreams. We’ll explore a bit more below about how to use these selections with Twitch or other streaming platforms, but for now, we want to give you a taste of what we’re talking about.
These tracks cover a wide range of genres and styles, but they should be quality tracks for providing the soundtracks to your video game livestreams. You can use these songs in your streams' intros or outros or even during gameplay to help heighten the mood.
So, open your ears and listen to these top royalty free songs for streaming video games.
1. Tally Me Tostones by Tony Sopiano
- Description: A low-energy, hip-hop song best described as chill and reflective. Bass and bass guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 85
- Key: Eb/D# Minor
- Listen and license here.
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song best described as chill and happy. Synth and Rhodes are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 79
- Key: F Major
- Listen and license here.
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song that is best described as reflective and suspenseful. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 106
- Key: Gb/F# Minor
- Listen and license here.
4. Project Blue Book by Neon Beach
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song that is best described as reflective. Bass and synth bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 118
- Key: A Minor
- Listen and license here.
- Description: It is a very low-energy electronic song that is best described as chill and reflective. Bass and synth bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 70
- Key: Bb/A# Minor
- Listen and license here.
6. Hype The Crowd by Carolina Combo
- Description: A high-energy electronic song that is best described as fun and happy. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 120
- Key: Bb/A# Minor
- Listen and license here.
- Description: A medium-energy pop song that is best described as fun and happy. Drums and drum kits are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 110
- Key: E Major
- Listen and license here.
- Description: A low-energy electronic song that is best described as fun and happy. Piano and synth are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 110
- Key: D Major
- Listen and license here.
9. Search And Destroy by Wicked Cinema
- Description: A high-energy, electronic song that is best described as suspenseful and scary. Strings and violin are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: Db/C# Minor
- Listen and license here.
10. In the Shadow of the Monolith by Phillip Mount
- Description: A medium energy, score song that is best described as reflective and suspenseful. Synths and drums are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 80
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here.
These are just a few songs from our vast royalty free music collection, which you can explore in our full catalog on our Soundstripe app.
How does music used on Twitch work?
Now, let’s explore how to use this royalty free music for video game streams. If you’re looking to livestream video games (or pretty much anything else, for that matter), chances are you’re going to want to use Twitch.
Twitch is by far the best—and most popular—live streaming platform, with millions of viewers ready to find your content. Yet, according to Twitch’s community guidelines, users should “only include music in your Twitch channel if you’re sure you have the necessary rights or authority to do so.”
This means that streaming content with popular music, even in the background, is against their rules and “may result in a rights holder sending a takedown request,” which could eventually result in your account being terminated.
To ensure this doesn’t happen, Twitch recommends that you only use music that is owned or licensed to you to use. And this is exactly what music licensing sites like Soundstripe offer with our royalty free music selections.
If you’d like to explore how to play music on Twitch streams, check out our copy-right safe music for Twitch, accessible with our Soundstripe Twitch extension.
What is royalty free music?
But what is royalty free music, you ask? Well, “royalty free music” is a music licensing term that can sound a bit confusing, but it’s really quite simple. 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 livestreaming video games 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 live streaming video games
If you’d like to explore more royalty free music for live streaming video games, please check out some of these additional playlists below.
Description: A Chill downtempo playlist made for gaming and vibing. Stream-friendly, DMCA royalty free music for Twitch or any gaming experience.
Description: From Pong to Mario and all points in between. This is the life soundtrack of the 80s kid.
Description: Chill electronic tracks are trending among our vloggers and social media content creators.
Description: Upbeat tunes are trending among our vloggers and social media content creators.
Description: Mysterious and chilling score.
There will always be more music to listen to, so if you’d like to keep exploring options for your live streams, check out these additional playlists here.
Tips for using royalty free music for streaming video games
To wrap things up, let’s give you some simple tips and tricks for using royalty free music for streaming video games.
- Absolutely consider using our Soundstripe Twitch extension to unlock music from Grammy-winning artists trusted by streamers worldwide.
- Look for music without vocals or lyrics so as not to distract your viewer from your own voice or dialogue in your video games.
- Experiment with when to use music in your streams versus when to let the game’s audio play on its own. Try using music just for when you’re starting a stream or loading your game.
Hopefully, these tips will help you launch your streams successfully and succeed in the exciting world of video game livestreaming.