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Canva is now offering Pro and Education customers access to a library of sixty-second music clips featuring world-renowned artists, enhancing the creative capabilities of its millions-strong community. Through partnerships with Warner Music Group, Merlin, and other labels, Canva became the first visual communication platform to provide commercially released music during the content creation process.
Users can now seamlessly embed over half a million songs, including tracks from Michael Bublé, Vance Joy, Kenya Grace, Curtis Mayfield, and more, across various genres. This integration reflects Canva’s commitment to keeping pace with the evolving visual economy, where social media content creation, particularly video-based, has surged.
The addition of popular music not only expands creative options for users but also connects record labels and artists directly with millions of creators, offering them opportunities for royalties when their songs are featured in published Canva designs.
“Like visual communication, music is a universal language that serves as a powerful tool for self-expression,” said Silvia Oviedo, Head of Content, Discovery and Print at Canva.
“Adding popular music to Canva is a natural evolution of our vision to put the entire visual communication ecosystem under one simple platform. We’re thrilled to give users a unique starting point and make it easy for them to add great music into their work,” Oviedo adds.
Rachel Scarpati, Senior Director, Business Development and Digital Strategy, WMG and Andrew Ludwick, Vice President of Business Development, Digital at Warner Chappell Music expressed excitement about the partnership.
“Warner Music Group is thrilled to see our partnership with Canva come to life with launch! We are committed to constantly exploring new revenue streams for our artists and songwriters, all while creating opportunities for them to establish unique connections with their fans. We can’t wait to see how Canva users enhance their designs with their favorite music.”
“Merlin members are enthusiastic to see their artists’ music made available to Canva users — a platform that’s at the forefront of visual communication and creator tools,” said Charlie Lexton, Chief Operating Officer at Merlin. “Since the initial announcement of our partnership, we’ve been eagerly awaiting this launch. We’re excited for Canva users to connect with Merlin member music, which features the most dynamic independent music from around the world,” they said.
Canva Pro’s music library has everything from chart-topping pop songs to classic jazz, heavy metal and danceable disco, all easily accessible right from the audio tab in the Canva editor. Users can now create music-filled designs and bring to life what’s in their mind’s eye.
The newly expanded music library is available to Canva Pro and Education, with small enterprises using Canva for Teams and Nonprofit users to follow, in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Free Canva users can browse the new music library, but will need to upgrade their subscription to use it in designs. The popular music library cannot be used in content created for commercial purposes, across all Canva account types.
