How it works: your new search experience
The Universal Production Music library
The Universal music library consists of over 630,000 tracks across all genres and styles. Use our tracks in your movies, TV shows, ads, video games, interactive media, and more.
With our intuitive online search feature, you can search for sounds and music by keyword, track title, composer, and lyrics. Or you can explore our expertly curated playlists, collections and moods compiled by our team of global music specialists to find licensed background music that can resonate with every emotion of your brief.
To help you find the perfect track we’ve developed a range of new and improved features, including a cleaner and more modern look and feel so you’ll find it easy to navigate and find what you need.
Intuitive online search
You can now search for sounds and music by keyword, track title, composer, and lyrics then browse results by tracks, albums and playlists simultaneously. Click on the in-browser player to hear the tracks straight away. If you find one you like, just add it to your playlist or download it.
Finetune your search even more by choosing tracks based on their:
- Length: Select tracks by their maximum length
- Beats per minute: Ranging from 40 BPM to 200+ BPM
- Version type: Includes vocal leads, instrumentals, backing vocals only, solos, underscores, and stem mixes
- Edit length: From hits and stings to full-length tracks
- Instrument: Keyboard, percussion, strings, orchestra, brass, and more
- Genres: From sound design and production elements to dance and reggae
- Mood: Dramatic, confident, emotional, romantic - the choice is yours
- Tempo: From slow to fast and varied time signatures
- Use case: From corporate and news to advertising to movie, film, and TV
- Era: Choose a decade from the 1500s to the 2020s
- Country: Music from the different continents of the world
- Label: A wide choice of Imprints including BBC Production Music and Atmosphere Music.
With Universal Production Music, you can quickly locate the exact music or sound for your project, whether you want an upbeat track for a commercial or a dramatic score for a film scene.
Related Albums and Playlists
We’ve also added a “Related Albums and Playlists” feature across our Albums and Playlist pages so you can easily find similar content. Additionally, you can sort for results by relevance rather than the latest released tracks and sounds.
Stems
Every project presents unique demands to artists and creators. If you need more control over the music in your production, try using the filter "Only tracks with stems" to refine your music searches and start taking greater creative control over the tracks in your projects.
What can you do with stems?
With music stems, you can adapt different components of a track to perfectly match the requirements of your project, including:
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Adjusting the levels of individual instruments
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Removing elements to better fit your dialogue or sound effects
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Isolating one stem element and turn it into a leitmotif to represent a specific character or time
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Changing the beat to match the energy or pacing of a scene
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Stereo-pan the sound to match a camera pan
With Universal Production Music, you can turn any track into a custom fit for your project with the right stem.
Discover Similarity Search
If you’ve heard something and thought it would be great for your product, check out our Similarity Search feature, powered by AI technology.
Similarity Search helps you find tracks that match the style and mood of your reference track. Simply type or paste a YouTube link to get started. Similarity Search listens to the track (or the part of the track you specify) to find the closest matches.
It's a quick way to find tracks in the Universal Production Music library that fit the feeling you're looking for.
