Playlist
New Background Music: Monthly Highlights
New background music on Audiosocket is surfaced through this monthly highlights collection, a rotating pick of the freshest tracks added to the catalog. This edition runs hot: pop, electronic and hip hop with house, latin pop and soul underneath, driven by percussion and electronics, with vocal cuts like Shalondy's La Vuelta and PAHLR's Confident Driver beside instrumentals from Max Holm. It suits brand launches, night-life reels and city-life content that wants a current sound.
47 tracks2 hr 15 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
The current highlights lean toward pop, electronic and hip hop, with house, latin pop and soul as the most common sub-genres. Moods are tagged mostly exciting, happy and swagger, and the catalog's sounds-like references include Beyonce, Brandy, Post Malone, Lady Gaga and David Guetta. Because this collection rotates as new releases land, the balance shifts from month to month, but the purpose stays the same: a quick way to hear what is newest before it spreads across the catalog.
Roughly a quarter of the current picks are instrumental and the rest have vocals. Instrumental cues include Max Holm's Deliberation and Lock in and NINI's Compassion, which suit product films and explainer edits. The vocal tracks are labeled (vocal) in their titles, such as Camille Anssel's DarkChill, Color Palette's Laura Palmer and Tiare's Marte, which makes them easy to spot when you need a featured song rather than an underscore.
Some of them do, and the catalog flags them in the title. Money Mantra by Taylar Elizza Beth and She Wanna by Berner and Kafeeno both carry an EXPLICIT tag, so you can screen them at a glance. For brand-safe content, choose the tracks without the tag or the instrumental cues from Max Holm and NINI. Reading the title suffix before you license saves a re-edit later.
Every license Audiosocket issues is perpetual for that specific finished work, so a track licensed from this month's highlights stays cleared for that video forever, whether or not it still appears in the collection. The highlights rotate; your license does not. If you are on a subscription, you can license as many new tracks as you need during the term, and each finished project keeps its own perpetual license.
The current picks average just under three minutes, which is short enough to run a full track under a product launch film and long enough to lift a 15 second social cut from the middle. Themes in the tags include high energy, city life, night life, brands and luxury, so the obvious fits are fashion and lifestyle reels, nightlife promos and launch content that wants to sound like it was released this season.