An office party at music for games licensor Styngr.
An office party at music for games licensor Styngr.
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Styngr makes it easier to license music for video games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

When it comes to getting music for games, Styngr is the only fully licensed major label partner that can get pre-cleared music into games.

The Santa Monica, California-based company got started on this mission in 2020, and now it has more than 100 million pre-cleared songs for use in PC, mobile, and console games. It has a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simple to integrate music into games. I talked to Stephen Cooper, chairman of Styngr and former CEO of Warner Music Group, in an interview about Styngr.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.