As 2024 ends and the brand new yr begins, it’s a great time for us to take a collective breath, look again at what made this previous yr particular, and take into account what we’d most look ahead to in 2025. Particularly, for our group at Soundstripe, 2024 was a yr of development. We’re proud to share that our music library grew 80% this yr.
We’re additionally comfortable to have the ability to tease the upcoming launch of Soundstripe Market. It’s our new digital music licensing storefront with songs from premier labels and publishers. Whereas it presents each a industrial music library and a manufacturing music library, all tracks are pre-cleared to be used in varied artistic initiatives. At present in beta, Soundstripe Market already boasts almost 5,000 various tracks from totally different file labels.
Let’s check out these achievements and the way they profit creators seeking to deliver initiatives of all sizes to life utilizing high-quality audio property in 2025.
Soundstripe core catalog development
As you may see within the infographic above, 2024 was a yr outlined by thrilling development. Our core manufacturing music library—all of the music unique to Soundstripe—grew over 25% final yr and now tops 10,000 tracks spanning 60 totally different genres.
our most downloaded songs of 2024, it’s clear that our new additions resonated with creatives. 5 of our prime 10 songs of 2024 have been launched in the identical yr. That is an encouraging signal for 2025 as songs like “Free Move” by Reveille have been in a position to crack the highest 10 regardless of releasing midway via the yr.
On the coronary heart of this development are the wants and requests of Soundstripe customers, who constantly information our catalog growth. In 2024, including extra songs with vocals was one in every of our prime priorities, due to constant buyer suggestions.
“Break By way of” by Gee Smiff and Neon Seaside and “Watch It All Fall” by Scarlett Solo and INNXCENT are two unique vocal songs Soundstripe commissioned this yr. We have been pumped to be taught they have been featured in an exciting full-length movie from Jeff Thomas Artistic for HEAD Ski, which you’ll be able to take a look at above.
One other Soundstripe music by rapper Gee Smiff was featured in a promo for the Xbox sport Forza Horizon 5. It’s a good instance of how creatives can use our manufacturing music library’s strategic sync-friendly songs with a number of alts to expertly intertwine instrumental and full vocal variations to create compelling, high-quality content material.
A sneak peek at Soundstripe Market
We’re additionally excited to share a sneak peek at Soundstripe Market, the pioneering digital music licensing storefront we debuted in beta final yr. It already presents hundreds of pre-cleared music tracks from main file labels, publishers, and artists–and we’re simply getting began.
Soundstripe Market is a perfect music licensing possibility for all types of artistic initiatives, together with video and podcasts, and throughout varied distribution channels, from social media advertisements to YouTube to the large display screen.
Principally, Soundstripe Market is designed to democratize and simplify the music licensing course of and make high-quality, recognizable tracks accessible to all creatives. You’ll be able to take a look at Soundstripe Market Beta right here.
What to anticipate in 2025
As we proceed to step ahead into 2025, we stay devoted to rising, diversifying, and differentiating our music library. But, the aim is rarely development for development’s sake. We wish to be sure that we’re dedicated to high quality and targeted on the wants of our customers.
We’re notably proud that our prospects make the most of about 99% of our core manufacturing music catalog each month. We by no means add filler simply to juice our numbers – your time is means too precious (and restricted) to spend it looking via numerous tracks that don’t meet your requirements or suit your initiatives.
That can be one motive we launched AI Track Modifying final yr. We could have nearly doubled the songs in our music library, however AI Track Modifying unlocks almost infinite prospects by letting you chop, lengthen, and even utterly rearrange a monitor. Between our hundreds of latest titles, music stems and alternate variations for each one, and AI Track Modifying, we’re so excited to see what you create this yr.
We take your suggestions critically and would love to listen to about each your successes and frustrations. When you have suggestions or options to share, be at liberty to drop us a line right here. (When you have questions, take a look at our assist web page right here.)
In 2025, we’re dedicated to including much more studio-quality and user-requested tracks to each our manufacturing music catalog and Soundstripe Market. So, keep tuned and put together for 2025 to result in extra development, high quality, and candy tunes.