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Upbeat R&B Background Music
Audiosocket's upbeat R&B background music collection gathers contemporary R&B, soul and funk tracks with swagger, built for fast-moving lifestyle, fashion and beauty edits. Electric guitar, percussion and keyboards drive the grooves, most with full vocals in the vein of Amy Winehouse, Mayer Hawthorne and Bruno Mars, plus a few Daft Punk-style disco cuts. Use it under get-ready-with-me videos, cooking and DIY content, city b-roll and brand spots that need a confident, danceable pulse.
25 tracks1 hr 19 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Most of these R&B tracks are sung; roughly a quarter are instrumental. Vocal cuts such as "Is It Love" by Kesna Music, "Pioneer" by Beckah Shae and "Hurt Me So" by The Diplomats Of Solid Sound carry the energy on their own, while instrumentals like "Love Junkie Remix (Instrumental)" by Tanya Morgan and "Forgive Me" by Nate Bosley give you the same groove without a singer competing with your on-camera audio.
It sounds like contemporary R&B fused with soul, funk and a little disco, played with real swagger. Electric guitar, percussion and keyboards lead almost every track, with claps, stomps and vocal effects adding punch and wind instruments coloring the funkier cuts such as "Do Work Feat. Mustafa Akbar" by All Good Funk Alliance. The closest reference points logged for these tracks are Amy Winehouse, Mayer Hawthorne, Bruno Mars and, at the dancefloor end, Daft Punk.
All but one are clean; the exception is clearly flagged in its title, "Dollar In My JukeboXXX (vocal) EXPLICIT" by Diana Salvatore, so you can skip it for advertiser-friendly content. The rest sit in happy, exciting and swagger moods and were tagged for everyday fashion, fashion vlogs, city life, cooking and DIY, which is exactly the lifestyle territory most beauty and style creators publish in.
Full vocals fight with speech, so use the sung tracks over b-roll, transitions and get-ready-with-me montages, and switch to the instrumental cuts or duck the music under any narration. Tracks average about three and a quarter minutes, long enough to score a whole segment without looping, and the steady percussion makes it easy to cut on the beat when you need a shorter edit.
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