Beat Licensing Explained

What a Beat License Actually Is

A beat license is permission to use an instrumental — it's not a sale of the song itself, and Laruny (like every producer) keeps the copyright to the beat. What changes between tiers is how far that permission goes: how many monetized streams it covers, what audio format you get, and whether the beat stays available to other buyers too. That's the whole idea behind beat licensing — you're not buying a piece of the beat, you're buying the right to build a song on top of it under specific terms. If you've never bought an instrumental before, it helps to think of it less like buying a file and more like the way you'd license a font or a stock photo: the file doesn't change, but what you're allowed to do with it does.

The Four Types of Beat Licenses

Laruny sells four types of beat licenses, and every one of them includes commercial use from day one — no separate license needed to release a song, put it on Spotify, or make money from it. The only real differences are the streaming cap, the audio format, and whether the beat is exclusive. If you're coming from another beat marketplace like BeatStars, the naming is different but the idea lines up: their MP3, WAV, Trackout and Exclusive tiers map roughly to Basic, Premium/Unlimited and Exclusive here. Here's the quick comparison, then the full detail on each one below.

Basic License — MP3

The Basic license is the starting point for most producers and artists: an MP3 file, commercial use from day one, and a real cap on monetized streams that keeps the price low. It's the basic license for beats most people mean when they're testing a song, working on a demo, or putting out a single without committing to a bigger tier yet.

Premium License — WAV

Premium steps the audio quality up to WAV — the format streaming platforms and mixing engineers actually want — and more than doubles the monetized-stream cap over Basic. If a proper release is the plan and not just a one-off upload, this premium beat license is usually the right call.

Unlimited License — No Streaming Cap

Unlimited removes the streaming cap entirely, still in WAV. Once a song takes off, the numbers on a Basic or Premium license can get outgrown fast — this tier exists so a hit doesn't put you in breach of your own license. It's the closest thing to exclusive rights without taking the beat off the market for other buyers.

Exclusive License — Full Ownership

Exclusive rights mean the beat is yours alone — it comes off the store the moment the sale closes, with the WAV, stems and trackouts included, and no one else can license it after you. There's no fixed price for an exclusive beat license because it depends on the beat and how you plan to use it; every one is agreed case by case on WhatsApp. Full details and the real price range live on the exclusive beats page.

Beat Lease vs Exclusive: Which One You Need

Basic, Premium and Unlimited are all, technically, a beat lease: you get a non exclusive beat license, meaning Laruny can still sell that same beat to other artists — the same idea as any rap beats for lease or hip hop beats for lease listing on any beat store. You're licensing a copy, not buying the beat off the market. For most songs that's exactly what you want: it's cheaper, and once a track is out, nobody's checking whether the instrumental is exclusive.

Exclusive is different. It removes the beat from sale entirely, so no other artist can ever release a song on it — worth it for a lead single, a major placement, or anytime a genuinely one-of-one instrumental matters. Not sure yet? Start with a lease: every license upgrades later, credited against what you already paid, so nothing spent now is wasted if exclusive rights make sense down the line.

What a Beat License Agreement Covers

Every purchase comes with a real beat license agreement, not just a receipt — it's the contract that proves the right to use the beat if anyone ever asks (a distributor, a sync agency, a rights-management company). A typical beat lease agreement spells out the streaming cap, whether it's exclusive or not, that the underlying composition and sound recording copyright stay with Laruny, and what happens if a song outgrows the tier it was bought under. It's worth reading the beat lease terms once, on any track, before it's a problem — not after a song blows up.

What's actually included changes by tier, not by a separate purchase — nobody sells WAV, stems, trackouts or MP3 as their own product here, they're just what's inside each license:

Using a Beat Commercially

Every Laruny license — including Basic — already includes commercial use, so there's no need to buy beats for commercial use as a separate step: selling the song, running ads with it, or putting it behind a monetized YouTube video is covered. The one case that's genuinely different is sync — placing a track in a TV show, a film, a video game or a national ad campaign. Sync licensing beats for a project at that scale usually needs its own agreement worked out directly, since those deals carry their own paperwork and payment structure. Message before committing to that kind of placement and it gets sorted case by case.

Upgrading Your License Later

Bought Basic and the song is doing better than expected? Upgrade to Premium, Unlimited or Exclusive whenever it makes sense, and whatever's already been paid gets credited against the new price — never paying twice for the same beat. It's the same deal all the way up: license beats now at whichever tier fits today, and if a track turns into something bigger later, moving up only costs the difference. Message on WhatsApp when ready and it's handled directly, no new purchase from scratch.

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