SoundCloud - Music streaming platform

Discover new music, follow artists, and share tracks anywhere, anytime.

2024.06.25-release Version
4.6 Score
211M+ Downloads
In-app purchases License
12+ Content Rating

Introducing SoundCloud

Stay ahead in the world of music with SoundCloud. Discover fresh tunes before anyone else, explore popular artists, listen to tracks, and share your top playlists. Gain entry to the largest music discovery platform worldwide.

Discover SoundCloud

- Explore a vast collection of over 300 million tracks by more than 30 million artists from 193 countries.

- Unearth new and trending music tailored just for you.

- Listen to exclusive music that can't be found on any other streaming service like DJ sets and remixes.

- Expand your music library with trending hits, underground remixes, and more.

- Connect with fellow music enthusiasts, follow favorite artists, and delve into their playlists.

- Interact with tracks directly through likes, reposts, and comments within the player.

- Share songs and popular playlists on both the application and social media.

- Showcase your own music by uploading tracks and reaching a global audience.

- Show your support for independent artists by streaming their music.

Enjoy free music streaming with SoundCloud FREE or upgrade to SoundCloud Go or SoundCloud Go+ for an ad-free experience, offline playback, and additional premium features.

Get Started

What is SoundCloud?

Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform powered by a global community of artists and listeners on the pulse of what’s new, now and next in music culture. We empower independent artists with the tools, services and resources they need to help them build and grow their careers. With over 250 million tracks from 30 million artists from 193 countries on SoundCloud, we are the largest audio discovery platform in the world.

How can you use SoundCloud?

Be an artist. Upload tracks and share them with your social networks. Promote your releases, engage with fans and earn money when you become eligible to monetize. Create an account for free or upgrade to Next Pro to access our best-in-class tools.

Be a listener. Find new music and share favorite discoveries with your social networks. Support the artists you love by commenting, reposting and liking their tracks. You can even save unlimited tracks and playlists for ad-free, offline listening with a Go+ subscription.

Feature requests and feedback

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us.

Although we can’t write back to you individually, our Support team reviews all feedback and shares it with the appropriate teams.

We'd love to hear your feedback! File a ticket at https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form

How do I get started on SoundCloud?

Now that you are part of our Community, here you will find a few basics to start you off.

Setting up your profile

Do you want to change your default username and/or URL so that your followers can find you easier? Click here to see how to do it: https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003567968-Your-Display-Name-and-Profile-URL

You can also change the images on your profile and header and your profile description to customize your profile and make it more personal.

Building your community

Once you start listening, not only you can comment, like and repost the tracks you love, but also create your own playlists with your favorite ones

Learn how to gain followers, grow your network and get more plays by engaging with your audience here: https://community.soundcloud.com/playbook-articles/tips-to-grow-your-community-with-comments

Uploading your first track

Are you a creator? Then check this out to see how to upload your first tracks. You can also find useful tips and tricks on our Playbook. Kindly refer to https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003454407-Uploading

Anatomy of SoundCloud

Feed - Your Feed keeps you up to date with the people you follow: their new tracks, playlists, and reposts will display on your Feed. Your own posts will also appear on your Feed as well as your profile.

Profile - Your public profile (soundcloud.com/[insert your url]) and your public profile shows the tracks you upload and repost.

Home - Clicking on ‘Home’ will redirect you to your Feed, alternatively you can switch your Home view from Feed to Explore to get a Feed full of trending hits.

Library - Your Library page shows your Likes and Playlists as well as the Tracks and Playlists of people you follow.

Repost - Reposts are a quick way to share your favorite discoveries on SoundCloud with your friends and followers. Click the repost button below a track or playlist to add it to the top of your profile, and share it to the Feeds of your followers.

Spotlight - Spotlight allows you to pin up to 5 items (either tracks or playlists) to the top of your profile page under the "All" tab.

Embedded player - Our embedded players let you share individual tracks, playlists or your own profile on your website or blog.

Follower/Following - Fill up your Feed with audio you love by following profiles you are interested in. As a creator, all your uploads and reposts will show on the Feed of your Followers.

Likes - When you spot a track you like hit the heart symbol directly below the track waveform to save it to your Likes, you will see the symbol turn from grey to orange.

Playlists - Playlists are sets or "albums" created with your own or other user's tracks on SoundCloud.