Music licensing in Turkey
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 Turkey, almost everything you need is included in your Soundtrack plan except for a public performance license.
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, particularly in public premises and for businesses, is strictly forbidden.
Deezer Terms and Conditions of UseApple
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 MESAM and MSG, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Turkey
Playing music in your business in Türkiye means licensing with more than one professional union. Each represents a different group of rights holders.
MESAM and MSG represent authors, composers and music publishers — the songwriters and publishers behind a song, rather than the performers or labels behind a recording. In practice the two license together on a joint tariff, so one agreement usually covers both. Since 2023 they've also organized into a federation, approved by and supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which has agreed a joint protocol with its counterpart on the recording side to make licensing more straightforward for businesses.
Fees are set annually and depend on the size of your premises, the kind of business you run, and how central music is to it — a bar or club pays more than a shop.
Playing music in a venue open to the public means signing license agreements with the relevant unions under Türkiye's Intellectual and Artistic Works Law. Get in touch with MESAM and MSG directly to find out what your business needs.
Contact info
MESAM
MSG