Play the Best Royalty-Free Christmas Music in Your Business
We know the festive season is on its way when the shops start playing back-to-back Christmas music. Festive tunes help to get us into the Christmas spirit often taking us back to our childhoods or special memories, so hearing them while we shop can enhance our shopping experience.
Creating the right festive atmosphere in retail premises isn’t always as straightforward as pressing play and hoping for the best. Getting your playlist right so that it helps to bring customers joy and also motivates employees is key. Read on to find out how to get the balance right and create a Christmas atmosphere that helps your business sparkle.
What Are the Benefits of Playing Background Music in Retail Premises?
Playing background music has many benefits for retail premises, not least because it can encourage customers to impulse buy and purchase more than they originally intended when they entered the store, and therefore helps to increase sales.
The right level and type of music also helps to create a welcoming atmosphere making your brand stand out from the crowd. It can also shorten the perception of waiting times and improve staff morale and productivity. Background music helps to give shoppers more of a personal space as they walk around the store by masking other sounds, allowing them to have a more enjoyable experience.
⭐️ Top Tip: make sure you play a wide range of songs. Having the same tracks playing on repeat can put shoppers off and de-motivate your staff ⭐️
Things To Consider
It’s clear that background music is good for retail business, but for it to be an effective tool, you need to make sure you get it right. Make sure you play the right type of music at the best volume. Loud rock music won’t encourage people to buy beauty products but it may do the trick in a specialist record store.
Making it as simple as possible to play a wide range of music is key if you want to reap all of the benefits it can have for your retail store. Good quality equipment will make it easier for staff to keep the tunes at the right level and create an atmosphere that’s conducive to shopping. But one of the key considerations is making sure you’re playing music legally so that you’re not hit with hefty fines.
The Best Royalty-Free Christmas Music
If you’re looking for a cost-effective way to play Christmas music in your retail premises this festive season, we have you covered. We supply the very best royalty-free Christmas music.
Background Sounds is a music streaming platform designed for businesses that want to play high-quality music without a PRS PPL music license. We take away the headache and cost of a music licence, providing you with a music streaming service that gives you and your customers a wide range of tunes to get them in the festive spirit.
How Licence-Free Music Works
When you play our royalty-free music in your business you do not need a PRS PPL music licence. That’s because the artists we use are not registered with them.
For a monthly or annual fee, you’ll get a huge range of playlists that are updated throughout the year covering all types of genres and styles.
You can access the playlists 24/7 and our friendly support team is on hand to help you get the most from your subscription so that you’re playing quality music in your business.
You can find full details of our service by heading to the “How it works” page.
Choose High-Quality Royalty-Free Christmas Music
Christmas is the biggest shopping season of the year for most retailers (source BRC). With the migration to online shopping and fewer people eating out. It’s never been more important that you enhance your space with a well-designed festive playlist that suits your brand and matches the experience your customers expect to have with you.
Royalty-free Christmas playlists, when designed well can provide all the benefits of commercial Christmas music without the cost.
Background Sounds – Royalty-Free Christmas Music
Check out the Christmas playlists available in our royalty-free playlist library. They’re advert-free and designed specifically for use as background music.
Retail Festive Mix
Ease yourself into Christmas with Retail Festive Mix
We know not everyone wants to dive straight into a full Christmas playlist. That’s why we have Retail Festive Mix!
You’ll have a festive song every third track. Perfect for when you want to add a subtle sprinkling of Christmas cheer.
Upbeat Christmas
Our most popular festive playlist! You’ll find fun and cheerful modern Christmas tunes with plenty of catchy lyrics and rhythm in this playlist.
Swing Style Christmas
A joyful collection of swing-style Christmas classics for an easy-going festive atmosphere.
Instrumental Christmas
A beautiful, delicate collection of instrumental orchestral and piano traditional Christmas classics. Perfect when you want a distinguished and calm festive atmosphere
Cosy Jazz Christmas
Warming, and refined instrumental jazz-style versions of traditional Christmas classics.
Festive Mix
Sometimes it’s hard to pick a playlist so we created Festive Mix. It’s a superb hand-picked selection of tracks from our Christmas playlist. So if variety is what you enjoy, this playlist will suit you perfectly.
Subscription Pricing
Our monthly cancel-anytime subscription is ideal if you only need Christmas music. Join for the festive season and cancel your subscription when you no longer need to use the service!
Like what you have read so far? Great! We recommend taking a free trial so you can listen to our playlists and check your audio setup before taking a subscription. There’s no obligation to buy and you don’t need to add card details to sign up!
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Recommended further reading
To find out more about the legal side of using royalty-free music in your business as an alternative to paying PRS PPL check out…
- What Music Can I Play Without a Licence (UK)
- How to Avoid Paying for a Music Licence
- Do I Need a Music Licence?
About Background Sounds
Background Sounds is a specialist provider of royalty-free music. Working with business owners looking to play music without the need to buy a PRS PPL Music Licence.
The service is offered via online streaming and can be accessed when you take a subscription. You can find out all you need to know on our home page here.
