Music licensing in Singapore
Streaming music in your business isn't the same as listening to music at home. When you play music for an audience with a business and commercial purpose, you need different licenses.
Play it right
Soundtrack is built to bring you music that’s legal for your business. In most cases, everything you need is included in your plan. If you charge admission fees, play live music or timing music to exercise classes you may need additional permissions.
Recording rights
Allows you to stream a specific sound recording of a song
Publishing rights
Allows you to stream the original composition
Change the way you play
Soundtrack offers an excellent selection of music because of our direct relationships with publishers, performing rights organizations and record labels. These include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and more. Our technology accurately tracks your song plays, which ensures that music creators get the right payments from us. Soundtrack Unlimited makes royalty payments about 5 times higher than streaming services for private use.
Music for business
Avoid legal concerns when playing music in your business. Use a suitable music provider (like Soundtrack) and check that you have the correct licenses in place.
Personal music services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and Deezer, are not approved for use in business environments.
Spotify
You can’t broadcast or play Spotify publicly from a business, such as bars, restaurants, schools, stores, salons, dance studios, radio stations, etc. To play in a commercial environment, check out our friends at Soundtrack.
Spotify for public or commercial useYouTube
You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and the law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use.
YouTube Terms of ServiceDeezer
The use of the Site and Application is only authorized for a personal and private use, therefore any other use, notably in public premises and businesses, is strictly forbidden.
Terms of Use for the Deezer Free ServiceApple
You may use the Services and Content only for personal, noncommercial purposes (except as set forth in the App Store Content section below or as otherwise specified by Apple).
Apple Media Services Terms and ConditionsAmazon Music
You may use the Services only for your personal, non-commercial purposes.
Amazon Music Terms of UseGet licensed
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If you don't have public performance licenses from COMPASS and MRSS, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Singapore
Overview Businesses that may require a music license in Singapore will need to consider two different organizations. These are COMPASS and MRSS. While both operate in the music licnesing space to collect and distribute royalties to music creators, there is a notable difference - COMPASS tends to focus on the musical copyright, while MRSS is concerned with the public performance of music. History The Collective Management of Performance and Audio Signals Singapore, or COMPASS, was formed in 1987 in tandem with a change in copyright laws in Singapore. It was set up with the intention of making sure that composers, lyricists and publishers were paid for the use of their music works. COMPASS also became a member of CISAC in 2012 to expand their reach internationally. RIMS, the Recording Industry Music Services, was founded in 1996 and RIPS, Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd, in 1999. Both organizations merged in 2018 to become what is now known as MRSS, or Music Rights (Singapore) Public Limited. How to get a license in Singapore Tariffs for different music license types can be found easily using the COMPASS and MRSS websites. It is also possible to download application forms for licenses with each organization. It is worth noting that these applications need to be submitted ahead of time, as there is not yet an instant online version available.
Contact info
COMPASS
MRSS