A client spends an hour or more in the chair; your team spends the whole day. WeavyAudio gives hair salons, nail salons and barbershops original songs that still sound good by the tenth client of the day: pop, afrobeats, hip-hop and soul, cleared for commercial playback for one flat fee per location and with no PRO royalties due on WeavyAudio music.
Plenty of salon owners assume a small shop does not need a music license. There is a real exemption in the Copyright Act, but it is narrow: it covers broadcast radio and TV in businesses under 2,000 gross square feet, or larger ones within limits on speakers and screens. It does not cover Spotify, YouTube, CDs or a stylist's playlist, and Spotify's own support pages name salons among the businesses where its consumer app cannot be played.
With WeavyAudio you do not have to work out whether your setup fits an exemption. You play an original catalog licensed for public playback at your salon, you have a PDF license certificate, and there are no PRO royalties due on WeavyAudio music. In booth-rental and chair-rental salons, one licensed house source and a rule that personal phones stay off the house speakers is the simplest setup; our guide to music for hair salons and spas explains why the business, not each stylist, normally holds the license.
A salon is a tough room for sound: dryers and clippers drown out everything nearby, while at the shampoo bowl the client wants to relax. Rather than turning the music up to beat the dryers, spread the speakers evenly and play softer. Conversation in the chair is half the service; the music should support it, not compete with it.
The biggest win is a wide rotation, and with 848 hours of music across 152 genres there is room for one. Your team hears the music all day, so a shared skip list and a fresh mix every few weeks are the basics. Lyrics are shown on every track page, which makes it easy to keep explicit songs away from clients with kids.
A starting point you can tune to your own clients, built from pop, indie, hip-hop, soul, afrobeats and the upbeat, mellow and calm moods:
Hair salon: pop, indie and upbeat songs through the day, mellow tracks toward closing.
Barbershop: hip-hop, soul and confident tracks with some swagger, at a level that leaves room for conversation.
Salons with a groove-loving crowd: afrobeats and afro house, lively without being pushy.
Nail salons and beauty studios: dreamy and calm tracks at a low volume, and the quietest corners of the catalog, such as spa and ambient, in treatment rooms.
$16 a month per location, or $150 a year ($12.50 a month). Every track, unlimited plays, gapless playback and a license certificate for your venue. Cancel anytime.
See pricing →If you play music clients can hear, generally yes; the only exemption covers broadcast radio and TV within size and equipment limits. There are no PRO royalties due on WeavyAudio music. If WeavyAudio is the only music in the salon, keep the license certificate on hand.
Not from personal streaming accounts, which are licensed for private listening only. The business where the music is heard is normally the one responsible for licensing, so one licensed house source is the simplest rule.
Music people can talk over: pop, indie and soul at a mid tempo, softer at the shampoo bowls. Barbershops do well with hip-hop and tracks with more attitude.
Quiet enough that stylist and client can talk without raising their voices. Do not turn the music up to beat the dryers; that just makes the whole salon louder.
$16 per month per location, or $150 per year ($12.50 a month). The first 14 days are free, with no card required.