The most used music streaming service in the world is Spotify. This platform not only allows you to listen to all the hits of your favorite artists, but you can also see the lyrics of the songs, combine your playlists, among other functions. For this reason, it is common for people who own a business to use this service to musically set their establishments.
Now, if you are one of those who use Spotify in business, we recommend that you stop doing it . And it doesn’t matter if you do it with the Premium version of Spotify, since you are also breaking the service’s use policies . You want to know why? Well, we’ll explain it to you right away.
Why you can’t put Spotify Premium music in your business
From the moment a song begins to be played in an establishment, said music becomes part of the commercial activity of the business. For this reason, putting Spotify music in your business is considered a commercial use of this service . In this sense, it is important to review what is established in the terms and conditions of the Swedish platform, in particular, the section of the rights of use in which what is shown in the image above is expressed.
As it clearly reads, Spotify only gives you the right to make personal and non-commercial use of the music found on the platform. This policy applies even to users of the platform’s Premium service. Similarly, in the “Spotify Property Rights” section, it is added that by accepting the terms and conditions of the service, the user agrees to respect the established regulations and not to use Spotify content improperly.
All this assumes that using Spotify music to set the scene for a business is an action that violates its terms and conditions. Therefore, if you do, you can be fined , and you can even lose access to this service.
YouTube is also not an alternative for your business
Now that you know you can’t use Spotify in your business, you’re probably thinking of replacing it with YouTube. On this video platform you can find all the songs you listen to on Spotify. However, we’re sorry to tell you that you can’t use YouTube in your business either .
Why? Well, for the same reason that we have already explained to you with Spotify. In the “Permissions and restrictions” section of the YouTube terms and conditions , it is also detailed that you can only view or listen to the content of the platform for personal and non-commercial purposes . Likewise, this restriction for the commercial use of songs is applied by other streaming music services such as Tidal, Apple Music or Deezer.
If not with Spotify… How can you put music in a business?
Even though you can’t put Spotify on, this doesn’t mean your business should stay silent. Music manages to positively influence customers, so you have to keep setting your establishment with the best melodies. And for this there is a wide variety of piped music or background music services for businesses . These work like the streaming platforms you already know, but they differ by allowing the commercial use of music. In this way, you only have to look for the one that best suits the needs of your business to hire it.
