Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- PlayNetwork
- Site
- playnetwork.com
To get your music into the businesses and venues PlayNetwork soundtracks, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
PlayNetwork curates in store music for hundreds of global brands, programming the soundtracks that play across more than a hundred thousand business locations. Delivery there places your music in the curated pool its supervisors program from.
PlayNetwork, founded in 1996 in Redmond, Washington and now part of Mood Media, is the company behind the in store sound of some of the world's most recognizable brands, with a client roster that has spanned hundreds of brands across more than a hundred countries, delivered through its CURIO platform. Its music supervisors program playlists to match each brand's identity, and they program from a curated pool of licensed music supplied through distributors. Acceptance into that pool is editorial rather than automatic, and accepted catalog can take weeks to go live in venues. Deliver your release through Unchained Music and it can be pitched into the PlayNetwork pool; from there, a supervisor placing your track in a brand playlist means daily plays across entire retail chains, with performance royalties collected by the societies and provider payments flowing through your distribution chain.
The same four steps for every release, whichever stores you send it to.
Sign up and pick the plan that fits. Grow is one artist profile, Pro is three and adds editorial pitching.
Audio, artwork and the metadata that travels with them: titles, credits, release date and rights.
Select PlayNetwork at store selection, along with everywhere else you want the release to land.
A person checks the release before it leaves. It typically appears on the platform within 24 hours to 7 days.
Updated September 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
PlayNetwork is a music curation company that programs in store music and media for global consumer brands, and it has been doing it since 1996. Now operating as part of Mood Media, it delivers branded music experiences to business locations in more than a hundred countries through its CURIO content platform.
PlayNetwork's supervisors program from a licensed, curated catalog supplied through distribution. Releasing through Unchained Music places your music in that supply chain, where it can be considered for brand playlists. Curation is selective, so acceptance is not guaranteed, and clean metadata and a clear genre identity help.
Curation and deployment run on retail timelines rather than streaming ones. Once a track is accepted into programming, it typically takes several weeks to appear in venues, because brand playlists are reviewed, scheduled and then distributed to locations on a cycle.
In venue play generates public performance royalties collected by the performing rights societies, and artists additionally share in provider revenue through the distribution chain, paid on the provider's reporting schedule. Being programmed across a large chain multiplies both, since the same playlist plays in every location.
PlayNetwork merged with TouchTunes in 2017 and was then acquired by Mood Media in 2021, and it now operates as a Mood Media company. The PlayNetwork brand and platform continue to run the brand curation business inside the larger group.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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