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Playing Club Ready Music tracks at paid gigs
“Can DJs play Club Ready Music tracks in clubs and at paid gigs?”
Yes. You can play Club Ready Music tracks at paid gigs, in clubs, at festivals, weddings and corporate events. Club Ready Music places no restriction on live performance, and the venue's public performance licence covers whatever is played in the room.
How performance licensing works for DJs
In almost every country, the venue, not the DJ, holds the licence that permits music to be played to the public. Collecting societies such as PRS and PPL in the UK, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC in the US, or GEMA in Germany issue a blanket licence to the club, bar or event space. That licence covers all recorded music performed there. It does not ask how a track was created.
A Club Ready Music track therefore needs nothing extra. If the venue is licensed, you are covered. If it is not, that is the venue's problem for every track in your set, not only the AI ones.
Why Club Ready Music tracks suit a DJ set
The product is built around club use:
- Every track has a vocal-free intro and outro, enforced by stem separation, so you can mix in and out over instrumental bars.
- The hard start trims leading silence so beat one sits at zero.
- Loudness is normalised to −8 LUFS by default with a −1 dBTP ceiling, so it sits level with commercial club masters.
- BPM, Camelot key, Open Key and hot cues are written into the file tags.
Royalties and setlists
Collecting societies pay performance royalties to registered rights holders when a track is reported on a setlist or detected by monitoring. A Club Ready Music track is not registered anywhere by default. If you want to collect on your own tracks you would need to register them with a society as the writer, which raises the copyright questions covered in the related answer.
Recording and streaming your set
Playing a track live is one thing; a recording of the set posted online is a different use. On video platforms, see the related answer on Content ID. On live-stream platforms, their own music rules apply, and an original AI track you control is far safer than a commercial release you do not.
Private and corporate events
Weddings, brand activations and private parties are covered the same way: the venue or event organiser carries the music licence. Where no licence exists, for example a private home, performance to a non-public audience generally needs none.
Summary for working DJs
Load it, play it, get paid. The only clearance you need is the one the venue already has.
Frequently asked
Do I need to tell the venue the track is AI generated?
No law requires it. The venue's performance licence covers music played in the room regardless of how it was made.
Do I get paid performance royalties?
Only if the track is registered with a collecting society and reported on a setlist.