While YouTube may have originated from the most inconspicuous of beginnings, being founded by three former PayPal employees in 2005, it has gone on to become the largest, most popular, and arguably most influential website in the world.
Not only can YouTube be a great vehicle to pass some time and find some laughs, it’s also become a launching pad for creators and brands alike, as channels can grow from hundreds to millions of followers seemingly overnight.
As YouTube has taken over, it’s also introduced audiences to new styles of videos that follow familiar patterns. Viewers understand what these new genres are and actively seek them out. If you’re a brand or a creator looking to grow a channel and build an audience, concepts like challenge videos can be a great way to go.
To help you with your YouTube challenge videos, let’s go over some basics about this concept, as well as share some tips and—as always—some great royalty free challenge video songs to help take your content to the next level.
What are challenge videos?
So, if you’re new to the YouTube game, let’s help catch you up to speed. Challenge videos are a type of content found on YouTube where creators (or brands) undertake a specific task, activity, or challenge. These “challenges” are often trending topics themselves and can usually be found on multiple channels simultaneously.
These challenge videos come in many different shapes and sizes, such as “try not to…” challenges, 24-hour challenges, or other physical or mental feats. Challenge videos also aren’t specific to any particular niche, as they can be found on channels covering various genres and topics.
10 top royalty free songs for challenge videos
Now that we’ve covered some of the basics of what challenge videos on YouTube are, let’s give you some of our top recommendations for the best royalty free challenge video music.
We’ll explore a bit more about why you want to use royalty free music specifically in your YouTube videos below, but for now, and to kick things off, let’s give you some tasty tunes to check out as solid options to consider for your YouTube challenge video background music.
- Description: A medium-energy, funk song that is best described as fun and happy. Bass and bass guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 93
- Key: A Minor
- Listen and license here
2. Curious Play by Cast Of Characters
- Description: A low-energy, corporate song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and xylophone/mallets are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 110
- Key: G Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy pop song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and bells are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 90
- Key: C Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song best described as chill and romantic. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 100
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song that is best described as chill and reflective. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: F Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A low-energy, electronic song that is best described as chill and romantic. Bass and synth bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 117
- Key: G Minor
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, electronic song that is best described as happy and fun. Synth and bass are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 103
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
- 8. Perseverance by Reveille
- Description: A medium-energy rock song that is best described as hopeful and inspiring. The guitar and electric guitar are the primary instruments on this track.
- BPM: 74
- Key: A Major
- Listen and license here
9. Tropical Dance by Material Gurl
- Description: A medium-energy corporate song that is best described as fun and happy. Percussion and xylophone/mallets are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 105
- Key: F Major
- Listen and license here
- Description: A medium-energy, acoustic song that is best described as fun and happy. Guitar and acoustic guitar are the primary instruments in this track.
- BPM: 102
- Key: C Minor
- Listen and license here
These are just a few recommended tracks from our royalty free music collection, if you liked what you were hearing, we highly encourage you to explore further in our full catalog on our Soundstripe app.
What is royalty free music?
Now, listen — we’ve mentioned a term here a few times that you might not be familiar with. “Royalty free music” is a music licensing phrase that can sound odd, but it’s pretty simple. Here’s a great read on what royalty free music means.
To understand how music rights and royalties work, you must know that all music has basic copyrights. These copyrights extend to both the composer of the music and the musicians who performed and recorded it. And if you want to use any music in any videos, you’ll need to obtain permission from the copyright owners.
Royalty free music can be an excellent option for all your YouTube videos simply because it’s easy to find and use. Soundstripe’s music is composed and recorded by Grammy-winning artists who know how to make great music for all types of films and video content.
Our top playlists for royalty free music for challenge videos
If you’re still itching for some awesome royalty free music to consider using in your challenge videos, we have some fun YouTube-worthy tracks for you to consider. These tracks are featured in a few of the many playlists available on the Soundstripe app. Here are some top options to consider.
Description: Whimsical arrangements for family films.
Description: Try to hear these songs and be sad. I dare you. No, I double-dog dare you.
Description: Compilation of lyric-driven tracks that inspire and uplift.
Description: Cheerful pop tunes are trending among our corporate clients and advertisers.
Description: Wes Anderson, eat your heart out. It's a tad left of center, but it feels right this way.
As always, we’ll always have more music for you to listen to, so if you’d like to keep exploring options for your YouTube videos, check out these additional playlists here.
Tips for using royalty free music in challenge videos
To wrap things up, once you’ve selected the optimal YouTube challenge video music, there are still several steps to go. And while we can’t take you through the entire video editing process, we can offer some helpful tips and tricks for working with royalty free music in your YouTube videos.
- Consider downloading preview tracks to use as placeholders in your edits before deciding if a track is right for your project.
- Explore our library of royalty free sound effects to add extra energy and action to your YouTube videos.
- Try out Soundstripe’s AI Song Editor to instantly edit your audio track to match the length of your YouTube videos.
Your ultimate goal with YouTube challenge videos on YouTube is to, above all, be entertaining. The YouTube videos that do the best are also usually the ones where you can see the hosts having fun. So, don’t overthink things, follow the fun, and see what zany challenges you can get up to.
