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Elevate Your Brand: Licensed Music for Small Business Success
Managing your small business is complex enough—you need to focus on growth, not music laws. You need simple, legal music for small business that immediately helps boost sales and build loyalty. Forget generic music apps and worrying about fines; deliver curated music experiences guaranteed to make customers feel comfortable, encourage spending, and make your business memorable.
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of global shoppers say music is the number one factor in lifting their mood in-store.
– Elevating the Customer Experience: The Impact of Sensory Marketing, 2019
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of shoppers say music was in the in-store element that stood out most during their shopping experience.
– Mood Media Consumer Survey Insights, 2025
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of shoppers say the right music can improve their mood.
– Mood Media In-Store Customer Trends Report, 2023
Music for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses
It’s about more than just a good song; the right music makes customers feel good, lifts your brand image, and motivates them to buy.
Fundamentals
The perfect, compliant foundation for single locations seeking simple background audio.
- No legal risk, completely worry-free
- Music from independent artists
- Low-cost plan, one-location focus
- Easy to schedule, simple to set up
Signature Plan
Elevate your brand with popular music your customers recognize and love.
- Includes popular songs and artists
- Consistency across all your locations
- Make custom mixes and playlists
- Premium songs, you manage the sound
Engage
Transform your audio program into a direct, dynamic sales and communication channel.
- Includes all Signature features
- AI writes your promotion scripts
- Unlimited AI voice options for announcements
- Drive sales, boost your profits
Enterprise
Music Solutions for large organizations and global brands.
- Curated playlists
- Dedicated support and account management
- Fully customized solutions tailored to your business needs
How Can Licensed Music Help My Small Business?
In a noisy world, how do you make sure customers focus on your business?
Sound is the fastest way to connect with people. It’s the first thing customers notice, even if they don’t realize it. The right music does more than just match your brand; it makes people comfortable, builds trust, and keeps them in your store longer.
Music has the power to change how people feel, and people act based on those feelings.
Connect with Customers
Pick the right music type, speed, and volume to stop customers from looking at their phones and pull their attention back into your store.
A great digital music program does many things at once: it improves your store’s atmosphere, makes your brand look better, and lifts the mood of both customers and employees.
Music in your business can excite, entertain, and send key messages, all while making a strong, lasting impression.
Cut through the noise with sound that draws people in.
Enhance Customer Experience
Make your store a place people want to be. Great music makes waiting feel shorter, creates a welcoming vibe, and encourages customers to associate your brand with positive feelings.
Inspire Action
Affect what customers do. Speed up the music during busy hours to keep lines moving, or slow it down to invite customers to relax and browse longer before making a bigger purchase.
Boost Sales
Turn passive listening into buying. When you combine a strong music program with clear audio messages, customers are more likely to notice promotions and make impulse buys.
Elevate Employee Morale
Invest in a better workplace. Music is proven to make repetitive jobs feel easier, helping your team focus, increasing job happiness, and leading to friendlier service.
Cement Brand Identity
Design a unique experience that sticks. Your music program is like an audible logo, ensuring every visit feels the same, reinforcing your brand in a way customers remember.
What is Music for Business?
Effective music solutions are a smart way to invest in great experiences for your customers and employees.
Music works like a strong sales tool: it keeps customers in your store longer, turns boring spots (like standing in line) into good memories, and noticeably boosts your team’s energy and focus.
Tap into Mood Media’s huge library of over 120 million legal songs (the world’s largest commercial music library) to find and use the perfect, fully-licensed music program that makes your brand stand out.
Our Case Studies
Bringing Experiences to Life
T-Bones Great American Eatery Case Study
ClearChoice Case Study
Marshall’s Jewelers Case Study
Atlanta South Case Study
Our Case Studies
Bringing Experiences to Life
T-Bones Great American Eatery Case Study
ClearChoice Case Study
Marshall’s Jewelers Case Study
Atlanta South Case Study
Why Trust Mood Music for Business?
Music is what we do best. We were the first company to figure out how sound changes feelings and behavior in a store. We are the original sound designers for retail, and we are still leading. We turn background music into a full branded sound strategy.
Our music experts deliver the perfect sound experience every time. It’s a mix of creative art and smart scheduling that looks at everything from the customer journey and what your brand stands for, to the emotions you want to create, while following all music licensing guidelines.
“During our peak times, I can’t afford to be away from my team for even a full minute. So if a customer asks me to change the song or a program, I need to be able to get that done in a flash. With Mood, I can head over to the computer and make the adjustment in seconds. It’s as if I never left my team.”
– Jason McNicholas, Head Manager, T-Bones Great American Eatery
Consultative Approach
We don’t sell one-size-fits-all solutions; we offer personalized help. Our experts work directly with you to understand your business goals before designing a music plan that fits your budget and brand vision.
Music First Mindset
Because we deeply understand music trends, world licensing rules, and customer psychology, we deliver focused programs that are intentional, relevant, and always on-brand.
End-to-End Solutions
We handle the entire process: from planning the right system and setting it up, to keeping your program updated and offering 24/7 technical help. You have one reliable partner for all your in-store media needs.
Centralized Management
Get control without the headache. Easily manage and update the music playing across all your locations from one simple app on your phone or computer, making sure your brand sounds the same everywhere.
Compliance & Risk-Free
Our main promise to small businesses. We take full legal responsibility for all music licensing, including paying all public performance fees and global copyrights. This gives you 100% legal coverage and total peace of mind.
Global Insights, Local Execution
We take the best ideas from the world’s biggest brands and use them in smart ways that fit the scale and budget of your local business.
Audio Content Services
It’s all about finding the perfect harmony.
Our team offers start-to-finish creative services, making captivating soundscapes that cut through the noise, appeal to your ideal customer, and match your brand’s identity for businesses of any size.
Audio Strategy
We use our years of experience to plan, create, and manage your full audio strategy, which includes music, audio messages, and ambient sounds.
Sonic Branding
By understanding what your brand stands for, we create a strong, consistent audio signature that gives you a clear framework to use across all your marketing channels.
Custom Compositions
Once your audio identity is clear, we hire talented writers and musicians to create original songs or pieces that are unique to you and help you meet your goals.
Music Distribution & Management
Using our reliable systems and technology, we help you manage and schedule your music programs, audio messages, and ambient sounds in multiple ways.
Global Music Licensing
Eliminate Legal Worries: Your Music is 100% Compliant and Worry-Free.
Mood Media provides fully licensed music, so you never have to worry about fines or lawsuits. With over 120 million songs available, your music is safely and legally ready for you to use, letting you deliver great sound experiences without the legal headache.
An Extensive Library
Get access to the world’s largest music library that is fully licensed for business use. Our in-house legal team has partnered with thousands of music publishers and record labels, including major names, to offer you songs from both big international stars and new independent artists.
Experience and Expertise
Benefit from the long-standing relationships our expert legal teams have built with the groups that collect music fees (like ASCAP and BMI). This leads to agreements that cover music rights for your business, ensuring comprehensive and reliable coverage.
Proactive Management
Stay legal and compliant. Our team constantly watches for changes in music laws and commercial regulations. By handling all the copyright rules and licensing for you, we eliminate the legal risk and allow you to focus entirely on running your business.
Mood Harmony™ Music
Meet Mood Harmony , a simple music control system that puts you completely in charge of the sound in your stores. Harmony is home to the world’s largest library of music for small businesses. It offers custom, brand-approved programs that make setting up and managing your in-store music easy. Log in on your phone or computer to control the music playing in one store, a region, or across your entire growing business network.
Centralized Management
See exactly what songs are playing in your locations. The Mood Harmony™ app lets you instantly see what’s playing now, what played recently, and what’s next, no matter where you are.
Dynamic Adjustments
Give instant feedback on songs with a thumbs up or down in the app, switch to a different approved program, or customize the sound in one specific store by choosing songs from local artists.
Actionable Metrics
Understand what your music is doing with Harmony Reports. See data on global music trends, check which songs were played, and see how customers are reacting, allowing you to connect this data with your other business tools.
Music for Business FAQs
New to music for business? Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding in-store playlists and music licensing:
What is music for business?
Music for business is the term used to describe songs, playlists, and ambient audio that are licensed to be used in commercial spaces or marketing channels. Music for business can include original compositions, tracks by trending artists, and chart-topping hits, but any music used or placed into playlists must be fully licensed, whether you intend to use it in your stores, in digital marketing, or in any other form of advertising.
Why is music for business important?
Music in business can be powerful. The sound you choose to use in your store can impact the mood and behaviors of your customers and employees, create emotional connections, represent your brand personality, and potentially even boost sales.
How do I choose the right music for my business?
It is important that you have a clear strategy in place when choosing the right music for your business. As the world’s leading provider of music licensing for business and experts in playlist curation, Mood Media can help you to identify the songs, artists, genres, and ambient sounds that will appeal to your target customer and reflect your brand identity. Once you have a sonic branding framework in place, you can curate a playlist of on-brand licensed tracks that can be deployed cross-channel.
Do I need a music license for my business?
If you wish to use music in a commercial environment or in your marketing, you will need to ensure it is licensed. You can negotiate licensing fees for an individual track, sonic logo, or original composition, or invest in a music library that only offers fully licensed or royalty-free songs that you can use without risk of legal difficulties.
How much is a music license for my business?
The cost of a music license will depend on the number of songs you wish to use, the publisher’s terms and conditions, the size of your business, the number of locations you have, the countries you operate in, and how you intend to use each track.
Can I customize the music for my business?
You can work with a music supervisor and composer to create custom music for your business or build a curated playlist of existing tracks that are in tune with your brand.
We Partner with Every Industry
Full-scope creative strategy, solution design, content development, comprehensive delivery, and support.
Retail
Restaurant
Hospitality
QSR
Automotive
Grocery
Healthcare
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