Music for YouTube, but with mainstream artists
Unleash the growth potential of your YouTube content with mainstream music and we’ll protect you from any copyright claims.
Grow your channel with better music
Using mainstream music from Lickd instead of stock music has shown on average:
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Music you can only get here
Lickd is the biggest catalog of music for creators, with 1.4 million mainstream tracks and royalty-free songs.
It’s also the only place to get huge artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Coldplay, Linkin Park, and many more.
Plus, enjoying all this supports our mission to make all 25M top tracks available to you.
Pricing
Starting from $22.99/month for one mainstream track and unlimited stock music. Prices scale with channel size so every creator can afford it.
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Once you sign up for an account with Lickd we’ll connect your YouTube channel to your Lickd account to confirm your price.
*Money-back guarantee: don’t use a track credit in your first month? Let us know and get a full refund.
Frequently asked questions
Absolutely! Lickd is the first copyrighted music licensing platform that allows you to use great music AND avoid demonetization, with built-in protection from copyright claims.
As a YouTube partner, we integrate directly into YouTube’s Content ID to tell YouTube you’ve got permission to use a track. If YouTube still decides to put a claim on your video, we’re able to squash it’s ugly little head for you, so you have nothing to worry about.
Once you’ve purchased a license from Lickd, you’ll get an Mp3 download to add to your video.
When you’re ready to upload your video to YouTube, include your license attribution in your video description and upload your video as “Unlisted” with plenty of time before you need your video to go public. This allows our automated system VOUCH to clear any claims for you (usually within 30 minutes), or for our dedicated music support team to jump in and clear any claims for you. Once any claims are sorted you can put your video live without any worry!
Most importantly, connecting your YouTube channel allows us to whitelist your channel for stock music use and clear copyright claims on licensed music!
Secondly, our pricing model is built based on your average video views. This makes music affordable for everyone, even if you’re just starting your content creation journey!
Most of our licenses are granted forever so there’s no danger of your video ever being taken down, even if you end your subscription. Just make sure to use licenses within 6 months of purchase. Some tracks have exceptions but this will always be clear in your license agreement before you purchase!
There are over 1.4 million tracks available to you on Lickd, but we appreciate we’re still missing some big artists like Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift. It’s our goal to get all 25M top tracks available to you but this requires us to get those rights from the copyright owners and that takes time.
We’re the only place you can get big-name artists right now and the only ones fighting to make more of this music available to you. By joining Lickd now you’ll help us make that happen. Help us help you!
In short, no. Our ‘premium’ copyrighted music licenses do not permit the songs to be used for lyric videos or by themselves as an ‘art track’ (for example, with just an image of the album artwork, a black screen, static images, stock footage, etc).
That’s because our licenses have been created for those who need background music for their original video content. The type of videos described above are deemed not to use songs as background music for content, but simply as a way for viewers to stream the song itself. This is copyright infringement and therefore cannot be covered by our licenses. This restriction also concerns AI-generated lyric videos.
Methodology: We’re throwing around some big numbers on this page! They come from a study in 2024, where we looked at 28,000 creator channels on Lickd and compared the stats on all their videos where Lickd licensed mainstream music was used vs those with only royalty-free music. For example, looking at videos in the gaming vertical showed an average 100% increase in video views and 76% increase in comments. A more in-depth case study performed with health & fitness creator growingannanas saw her videos had a 35% average increase in watch time when using Lickd licensed music.”