As we enter 2025, we’re excited to discover how content material creators of every type can take our collective learnings from final yr and switch them into actionable plans for the approaching yr.
No matter your individual successes and setbacks skilled in 2024, the subsequent yr will at all times be filled with potential so that you can make nice private {and professional} strides ahead.
That will help you in your content material creation journey, we’re right here to share a few of our learnings right here at Soundstripe—together with insights into our hottest royalty free music, our most licensed songs, genres and moods, and business tendencies we anticipate to see in 2025.
A glance again at 2024
Whereas 2024 was completely different from the yr earlier than it in some ways, we additionally noticed lots of the identical tendencies repeat themselves from the yr earlier than. Taking a look at our most downloaded songs, 2024 noticed our “blissful” temper tag lead the pack, which additionally topped the checklist in 2023. And we’re delighted to report that “blissful” continues to be one in all our hottest tags—and royalty free happiness music remains to be one in all our most sturdy catalogs of music.
Second to “blissful,” although, we noticed “hopeful” music rise from the third spot in 2023 to second place in 2024. This transfer from “hopeful” surpassed “enjoyable,” which fell from second to 3rd. We’re taking this as an indication that 2024 – which noticed the Paris Olympics, charged elections throughout the globe, and extra – was a yr about desires and aspirations, with enjoyable holding regular proper behind.
As you’ll see in our checklist of our prime 10 downloaded songs of 2024, together with “inspiring” and “blissful” tags showing a number of occasions within the prime 10, all of our prime tracks share the “hopeful” tag as nicely.
Total, 2024 was a yr through which creators appeared for music to inform uplifting tales of their content material. Optimistic messaging has confirmed each fashionable and profitable as a technique to encourage audiences to higher have interaction together with your content material and model, plus discover methods to click on by means of to any subsequent steps to maintain the great vibes going.
Our hottest royalty free songs from 2024
Now, with out additional ado, let’s share a listing of our prime ten downloaded songs from 2024. These tracks are from seven completely different Soundstripe artists, are predominantly in eight completely different keys, and— regardless of sharing many “blissful,” “hopeful” and “inspiring” music tags—run the gamut throughout completely different musical types and genres.
Listed below are Soundstripe’s most downloaded royalty free music tracks from 2024:
- Description: A high-energy rock music that’s greatest described as inspiring and hopeful. The guitar and electrical guitar are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 117
- Key: G Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A medium-energy, digital music that’s greatest described as blissful and hopeful. Synth and guitar are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 155
- Key: G Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A low-energy, acoustic music that’s greatest described as hopeful and provoking. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 102
- Key: Db/C# Main
- Hear and license right here
4. Born To Roam by Tommy Welton
- Description: A medium-energy pop music that’s greatest described as hopeful and provoking. Drums and drum kits are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 130
- Key: A Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A low-energy, digital music that’s greatest described as inspiring and hopeful. Synth and guitar are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 120
- Key: E Main
- Hear and license right here
6. Humblebrag by Neon Seashore
- Description: A high-energy, digital music that’s greatest described as enjoyable and blissful. Drums and digital drums are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 120
- Key: D Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A low-energy, classical music greatest described as calm and provoking. Piano and strings are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 160
- Key: D Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A low-energy, acoustic music that’s greatest described as inspiring and hopeful. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 150
- Key: F Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A medium-energy, digital music greatest described as hopeful and provoking. Synth and piano are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 107
- Key: Bb/A# Main
- Hear and license right here
- Description: A high-energy, digital music that’s greatest described as blissful and enjoyable. Synth and percussion are the first devices on this monitor.
- BPM: 170
- Key: F Minor
- Hear and license right here
Artist Reveille (which options the organically grown instrumentals by Brendan St. Gelais) had three tracks featured in our prime ten hottest royalty free music downloads, whereas author and composer Landon Bailey’s artist profile LNDÖ featured two prime decisions. Each are gifted Soundstripe artists, and we’d suggest testing their full Soundstripe catalogs.
What to plan for in 2025
Now, with 2024 within the rearview, let’s sit up for 2025. We anticipate know-how tendencies in each music and content material industries to proceed at a fast tempo. AI has been one of many greatest tales of the previous yr for good motive, and we’re excited to share that our Soundstripe AI Track Editor launched this yr helps creators edit a Soundstripe monitor to completely match their movies in seconds.
We anticipate 2025 to deliver many extra improvements, not simply in AI but in addition in different applied sciences. These improvements will possible additional pace up workflows, streamlining and impacting content material and advertising efforts.
The Soundstripe catalog will proceed to develop and diversify as nicely, with the purpose of giving Soundstripe customers much more high-quality, royalty free music and sound results to make use of of their rising and diversifying content material wants.
So, good luck in 2025 in your evolving content material creation journeys. We’ll be arduous at work, creating, curating, and collaborating with our gifted artists to offer you the perfect tunes and belongings to your initiatives.