A production music library curated for picture

What's in the ITGM production music library

The In The Groove Music production music library is a curated catalog of about 2,000 albums and 44,000 tracks, built for advertising, television, film, trailers and branded content. It brings together music from independent artists and records from ITGM's own libraries, including ITG Studios, BEATS FRESH and NEXT.

Curated means someone chose each album for a reason. Library music has a reputation for sounding like library music, and the aim here is the opposite: tracks a music supervisor would pitch to a creative director with a straight face. The range runs from orchestral and trailer builds to indie rock, hip-hop, country, jazz, Latin, ambient and documentary underscore, with vocal and instrumental options across most of it.

How music library licensing works

Every track in the library is licensed by quote, never by subscription. Tell us the project, the media, the territory and the term, and we come back with a license scoped to that use. We handle the rights, clearances and delivery, so your producer and business affairs team get clean paperwork.

Across the industry, production music libraries license in a few ways: a per-track license for a single use (often called a needle drop), a production blanket that covers one show or series, and longer blanket deals for networks and production companies. Which structure makes sense depends on how much music you use and where it runs, and we'll set that out in the quote.

For broadcast, ask us for the cue sheet details for each track: title, writers, publishers and PRO affiliations. Cue sheets are how the writers get paid their performance royalties when your work airs.

Browse by genre, mood, album and artist

This hub branches into genre, mood, album and artist pages, each a shortcut into one corner of the catalog with tracks you can play and license. They're useful when you know the lane but not the track: a hopeful documentary bed, a dark investigative underscore, a stadium-sized sports anthem. Start with a mood such as uplifting, suspense or epic.

If you're working in a specific format, the use-case pages go further: music for commercials, trailer music and sports music.

When the library doesn't have it

Sometimes the right track doesn't exist yet. Our in-house composers and producers write custom music when the brief calls for something original, and our music supervision team can search beyond our own music libraries for commercial songs and handle the clearance. The same people do all three, so moving from a library track to a commissioned piece doesn't mean starting over with a new vendor.