40 Trending Music Software Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

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1. Amazon

Online shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewelry, tools & hardware, housewares, furniture, sporting goods, beauty & personal care, broadband & dsl, gourmet food & just about anything else.

How much they make:
Where they're located: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Current team size: 1
Website traffic: 2.65B/month

2. Apple

Where they're located: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 438M/month

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4. University of California, Berkeley

Where they're located: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Website traffic: 14.9M/month

5. Free Templates

Easily Download, Edit, Print Free Templates in Adobe Photoshop (psd), Illustrator (.ai), Indesign, Microsoft Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), Publisher (.pub), Apple Pages, Numbers, Google Docs and Sheets

Where they're located: Saint-Georges-la-Pouge, New Aquitaine, France
Website traffic: 4.84M/month

6. Sweet Water

How much they make:
Where they're located: Fresno, California, USA
Current team size: 500
Website traffic: 13.2M/month

7. ZDNet

ZDNet's breaking news, analysis, and research keeps business technology professionals in touch with the latest IT trends, issues and events.

Where they're located: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Website traffic: 10.2M/month

8. Royalty Free Music by Bensound

Download Royalty Free Music for free and use it in your project: Videos(youtube,...), Websites, films,...

Website traffic: 1.68M/month

9. GetApp

Discover the best business software and check over 1 million verified ratings & reviews. Get data-driven recommendations and compare alternatives to find the right tools for your team.

Website traffic: 1.89M/month

10. LANDR

LANDR is online music software for creators: music mastering, digital music distribution, rent-to-own plugins, free sample packs, collaboration tools, music promotion, and more. Try it free.

11. Output

Output develops software for the modern musician.

12. Software Free Download

Soft32, a pioneer of downloads and reviews website, delivers up-to-date software, free downloads and reviews for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.

Website traffic: 590K/month

13. Digital Music News

Digital Music News is the top source for music business and technology news. DMN is for people in music!

Where they're located: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Website traffic: 580K/month

14. Cakewalk

Cakewalk develops computer software for recording and making music. Our products include award-winning digital audio workstations for PC, fully-integrated music making software and recording hardware, and innovative soft-synth virtual instruments for PC and Mac.

Where they're located: Manikganj District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
Website traffic: 760K/month

15. Piano

Piano empowers intelligent segmentation, cross-channel experience management, offer presentation, split testing, billing, customer care and more.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

16. 7digital

Website traffic: 530K/month

17. UMG

Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company. We own and operate a broad array of businesses in more than 60 countries.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 530K/month

18. My Music Staff

My Music Staff is music teacher software that makes it easy to manage your music teaching business. Start your 30-day free trial today!

Where they're located: Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Website traffic: 930K/month

19. Sony Music Entertainment

Official Website

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA
Website traffic: 130K/month

20. Rockbot

Play smarter music for business. Stream licensed, customized background music. Start your free trial.

Website traffic: 120K/month

21. Gracenote

Gracenote is the leader in entertainment metadata, helping people connect to the music, TV shows, movies and sports they love across the world’s most popular entertainment platforms and devices, from Apple to Amazon to Comcast and Ford.

Website traffic: 500K/month

22. Finale

Produce the music of your imagination without compromise. No other music notation software offers Finale’s level of control, letting you decide both what and how you create. At every rehearsal, know that your score will sound great, your parts are ready, and you have clearly communicated your musical vision.

23. Curve Royalty Systems

A New Royalty System, Made for Today's Music Industry

24. FUGA

We provide flexible music distribution and marketing services, powered by our industry-leading technology.

25. Easy Song

Easysong.com is a website offering easy-to-learn music tutorials and resources for musicians of all levels. Founded by a team of three music enthusiasts, the site caters to a niche market of beginners and intermediate players. It generates revenue through advertising and premium membership subscriptions. With a small team of 10 employees, the site has seen steady growth in the past few years.

How much they make: $3.78M/year
Where they're located: Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA
How much did it cost to start: $75K
Current team size: 11
Website traffic: 110K/month

How We Bootstrapped A Music Licensing Business to $2.5M/Year

EasySongLicensing.com grew from a mobile recording business to a bootstrapped music licensing agent, with a user base of over 60,000 clients and a gross profit of $2.5M in 2018, seeing a 30% increase in 2019, through investment in online marketing, customer service, and forming new partnerships.

About

Aaron started Easy Song almost 19 years ago

Revenue

Aaron grew the business to $315K/month

Costs

It cost Aaron $75000 to start the business

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26. Synchtank

Record label and music publishing software for businesses to manage music catalogs, rights, metadata, licensing, and royalty administration.

Where they're located: London, UK
Current team size: 30

27. Streaming In-Store Music for Business

The best way to stream legal music. Music and messaging features built for businesses both large and small. Low price leader. Try it free starting today!

Where they're located: Denver, Colorado, USA
Website traffic: 70K/month

28. inMusic

inMusic is the parent company for a family of premier brands that includes AIR Music Technology, Akai Professional, Alesis, Alto Professional, BFD, Denon DJ, Denon Professional, Engine DJ, HeadRush, ION Audio, M-Audio, Marantz Professional, MARQ, MixMeister, Numark, Rane, Sonivox, SoundSwitch, and Stanton. Committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation in the DJ, music production, live sound, musical instrument, pro audio, and consumer electronics industries, each of inMusicʼs brands creates cutting-edge products that incorporate and build upon the latest in engineering, design, and technology.

Website traffic: 110K/month

29. AI Music Composition Tools for Content Creators

Amper is an AI music composition company that develops tools for content creators of all kinds.

30. muvee

Makers of radically easy to use video editing software for Action Cams, 360 and Drones used by millions worldwide on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

31. Professional Voice Over Recordings

Where they're located: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

32. Transfer playlists between Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube!

Transfer your tracks and playlists to Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, YouTube for free with MusConv

Website traffic: 130K/month

33. Roni Music

Free download of Music/MIDI shareware software. CD-Player - Slow down the speed of music without changing the pitch / MIDI

34. Lightyear Music

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA

35. Dynamic Media Music

Transform your business with music on hold and message on hold options from Dynamic Media Music. Learn about adding custom music to your business now!

36. Reprtoir

Reprtoir is a modern music business workspace helping record labels and music publishers teams collaborate on assets, metadata, rights, and more.

37. Soft14

Soft 14 - freeware shareware download: good programs, software foroffice, business, productivity, finance, video, audio, games, internet, multimedia and design, ebook, web, software development, DVD, mp3, utilities, web, free, news, MS Windows, home and education and hobby, catalog, store and archive, desktop enhancements, screensaver. Free download links, reviews, top 20 downloads, over 200 categories. Purchase or free trial demo download. Full search...

38. Broadcast Software International – Technology for the Radio Broadcast Industry

39. Music Scheduling Software

Get The Absolute Best In Music Scheduling Software For Professional Broadcast And Internet Radio! Get Your Free Trial Today!

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