Delivering your music to Facebook and Instagram allows their users to add your music to their stories. This certainly helps promote your music to a wider audience. To qualify, you must have exclusive rights to the recordings for your chosen territories and be eligible for distribution to Facebook and Instagram. Here’s a list of content that may be ineligible for Facebook and Instagram:
Sound effects
Spoken word / speech
Podcasts / radio show / album commentary
Sound-a-likes or unlicensed cover songs
Unlicensed remixes (slowed down, reverbed, sped up, sampled versions, and unauthorized use within generative AI music)
Unauthorized DJ & extended mixes
Production library music (stock music; licensed for use in film, television, radio or online. Including soundbeds, incidental scores, production loops, royalty-free music, non-exclusively licensed (for a fee or gratis))
Public domain
Insufficiently distinct recordings (Recordings where the music is insufficiently distinct from other legitimate sound recordings or where recordings of public domain compositions are indistinguishable)
Ambient, meditation, yoga, or sleep music
Karaoke recordings
Please note: If your release includes a track that doesn’t fulfil the criteria mentioned above, your release can’t be delivered to Facebook and Instagram with that track.
I can't find my music on Facebook and Instagram. What should I do?
If your track doesn’t meet the criteria mentioned above, it unfortunately can't be on Facebook and Instagram. To ensure your music gets onto Facebook and Instagram, please make sure your music meets their eligibility guidelines.