Do you play music at your business? 🎶

[isabelle]

Hey Seller Community! Happy Wednesday ⚡️

This week we're wondering...

Do you play music at your business? 🎶

If so, what kind? Do you use Apple Music or Spotify? Something else? What device do you play it off of? 

Can't wait to learn from you all 🧠

[Tazzacafe]

I changed my music recently from more current music and my alternative faves to 50s and 60s greatest hits all day and the customers love it, get comments everyday... Customers stay longer too I've noticed...use Spotify with a portable speaker

[Bronze_Palms]

YES! I was having some serious problems with it, however. I don't like playing music in my business that is crass or includes foul language, even if it isn't deemed a "bad" word. I have settled with the playlist on Apple music called The Lounge and it is awesome - its upbeat, acoustic, and clients love it

[LexiLynn]

I am talking with my clients 90% of the day, so I prefer music without lyrics. My favorite is relaxing but upbeat Lo-fi! I personally use Spotify and will put a few songs that i like into a playlist and then use their "enhance" feature to build a bigger playlist!

[Priara72]

Because my business is Christian based, we play music streamed from Spotify or Youtube Music.

[Evey]

I play Christian music all day, my customers love it. I play from You Tube and its free. I also have the radio on when im not using You Tube. I keep it on the promise station since that where i also advertise on.

[TNorrell]

In my store, I find that playing soothing sounds makes shoppers more at ease!! Heavier music and they tend to shop faster and purchase less.  

[willm123]

I work from home so it depends what I feel like

[Stefanieblue]

Yes,we play upbeat relaxing music for our clients at the salon I work at..

[JohnC58]

I would be interested in hearing how many of the respondents are paying licensing fees for playing music in their stores.  My understanding is that services like Sirius XM, Pandora, and Apple music are licensed for personal use only.  

[maxpete]

That's correct, you would have to be using a service like Soundtrack your Brand for this. 

[BofBArtStudio]

We were using Soundtrack Your Brand for quite a while and then about a year and a half ago we switched to Cloud Cover Music.  

Our understanding also is that you have to pay licensing fees to play music at a business establishment. So we wanted to make sure we were complying in that way.

[mksavage]

We use Rockbot, which includes a commercial license for all of the music in their catalog. It's not as robust as some of the others (Sirius, Pandora, etc.), but we've used it for 6 years and have dialed it in pretty well. Their license doesn't cover live music events, however, so in the past when we've been hosting more music events (DJs/live bands), we've had to secure separate licenses for that. 

[rtfulk]

We use HomePod minis, we subscribe to Apple Music. We have a playlist that shuffles Country and 80's music, during Christas we play traditional Christmas, Bing, Frank, Tony Mathis people seem to love it, because you can hear them singing.

[BofBArtStudio]

We use Cloud Cover Music.

It allows for licensing to play music in a public business and we have it installed on our iPad where our Square POS is to control stations to the streaming device.

We play a bunch of fun and upbeat playlists.  Coffee Shop playlists are often pretty good.  Also a playlist called Hipster BBQ.

[MudFire_Dex]

We just swapped to Soundtrack your Brand - owned by Spotify - a bit on the pricey side depending on how many zones you have - luckily we have one - but we wanted a legal for business play server so that we were paying artist fees fairly. I would say though that prior to this thread popping up we actually weren't aware that you couldn't use Spotify or other services in a business capacity, because I frequent so many establishments that allow staff to put their phone and personal playlists on (at salons, tattoo shops, coffee shops etc where music is part of the environment). I don't think many business owners have an awareness on this topic.

[maxpete]

I agree! I think a lot of businesses aren't aware about the streaming regulations.

[Twpchair]

Absolutely 💯 I play music all day long! I use Spotify the best of the 70s and 80s seems to be our crowd of customers.  I have a 1200sq ft building and it's so nice to see customers looking and shopping around and singing to the tunes! At least 10x a day I get asked what station are you listening to? It's uplifting and they enjoy it so they stay longer. It's a great thing on the weekends especially when I get group of ladies and friends that come in together. 

[VanKalkerFarms]

At our bakeries, yes we have a couple Amazon devices that play quietly just so it isn't awkward silence but it isn't for listening to.

At our Garden Center no, the wind and birds chirping and smells etc there is enough distractions going on.