How to add music to your Instagram Story in 2022

Are you looking for a way to add music to your Instagram Story?

Creative visuals are key to grabbing people’s attention on social networks if you are a marketer or content creator.

Insta Stories that have a vibe are one of the best ways to get attention. To set the mood, you’ll need to add music. This article will show you how to do this in 6 different ways.

How to add music in your Instagram Story

It’s easy to add music to your Instagram Story. It’s a skill that every marketer and content creator should have.

Once you have Instagram Stories down pat, you can move on with the rest of your Instagram marketing strategy. We can also help you create white-hot Instagram Story Ads.

Stay with us and you’ll soon be entertaining and engaging your followers.

These are the eight steps you need to add music to your Instagram Story.

Step 1: Open the Instagram App

Step 2: Tap the Your Story button in the top-left corner of the screen. Or find a post that you want to share. Hit the airplane widget and then click Add Post to your Story.

Or:

Step 3: If your Story is from the Your Storiesicon, tap on the Camerasquare at the top left corner. Or choose a photo from your camera roll.

If you are sharing someone else’s feed post, continue to Step 4.

Step 4: Navigate to stickers from the top bar.

Step 5: Tap the StickerMusic

Step 6: Select a song in the For You library, or search for a particular song using Browse

Step 7: After you have selected a song, the option to display the song’s name only or the album artwork will be available. You can scroll through the song to find the right place to start the music.

Step 8: Share your Close Friends or your entire following by hitting Tell your story

How to add music to your Instagram Story without a sticker

There are three possible reasons why you might not see the music sticker on your app after following the steps.

1. Update your app
2. Instagram’s music feature in your country is not available
3. You are sharing a branded content campaign

Some features, such as music, are not allowed to be included in branded content ads due to copyright laws and Instagram’s advertising guidelines.

Perhaps you are wondering how to add music without the Sticker to your Instagram Story. There’s good news, friend: there’s an easy way around.

Step 1. Step 1.Open a music streaming app like Spotify, Apple Music.

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Step 3. Step 3. The final result will include the music from your phone.

This workaround will not show your followers the album cover nor lyrics.

Instagram has not approved it technically so you won’t get the same features as the app. It’s more of an “desperate times call to desperate measures” situation.

You could also be in violation of copyright, which Instagram is very strict about. Instagram may flag your account and remove your Story.

Just FYI: Instagram’s ‘general copyright guidelines’ are as follows:

• Music in stories and traditional live performances of live music (e.g. filming an artist performing live) are allowed.
• A video may be considered limited if it contains more than one full-length recording track.
• It is recommended that you listen to shorter clips of music.
• Your video should always have a visual component. Recorded audio should not be the main purpose of the video.

If you use the workaround above, it would benefit you to use a shorter clip, and accompany your recording by a visual component. Here are over 30 Story ideas that you can shamelessly steal for visual component inspiration.

There is one problem with so many Story ideas. You won’t want them all to be posted at once. It is essential for busy content creators to be able schedule Instagram Stories in just 4 steps.

How to add music in an Instagram Story using Spotify

You can vote for a song on Spotify that you think is popular with your Instagram followers. You can add music directly to Instagram Stories from Spotify.

Step 1. Step 1. Open the Spotify app

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Step 4: Navigate to Share in the pop-up menu

Step 5: Navigate To Instagram Stories. You may need to grant your permission to open Instagram

Step 6: Spotify will open a new Story for your song, album, playlist cover.

Your Story will be published and your followers can click through it to the Spotify song.

Step 7: To have the music play over the cover art, add the song to your Instagram Story following the steps in “How to add music”

You may be getting an error message that “You cannot add a song or a story you shared with another app.” This means you might not be able play music over the cover image. However, there is a workaround!

Follow the above steps and then hit the Download button. You can delete this Story, create a new Story using the screenshotted or downloaded version, and add music as you would normally.

Your Instagram Story won’t allow your followers to navigate to Spotify songs from your Instagram Story.

How to add music to your Instagram Story using Apple Music

It’s easy to share music to an Instagram Story via Apple Music. You can easily share songs across all your apps in just four steps.

Step 1: Open Apple Music app

Step 2: Choose a song, an album, or a playlist you want to post

Step 3: Touch the piece and hold it, then tap Share

Step 4: Tap Instagram and post as you would normally.

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SoundCloud – How to add music to your Instagram Story

Musicians will find it extremely useful to add music directly from Soundcloud to their Instagram Story. This allows you to cross-promote new music to your Instagram followers. People who see your Instagram Story can click on your song to listen to it on Soundcloud.

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Step 3. Step 3. You might need to grant permission to access the Instagram app.

Step 4. Step 4. SoundCloud will upload your cover art to your Instagram Story.

Step 5: To have the music play over the cover image, add the song to your Instagram Story following the steps outlined in “How to add music”

Step 6. Step 6. Click this link to be taken directly on SoundCloud to the song, album or playlist you selected.

How to add music to your Instagram Story using Shazam

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Step 4: Select Instagram. You might need to grant your permission to access the Instagram app.

Step 5: Shazam will create an entirely new story using the song’s cover art

Step 6: To have the music play over the cover image, add the song to your Instagram Story following the steps outlined under “How to Add Music to Your Instagram Story”

Step 7. Step 7. Click this link to be taken to the song, album or playlist on Shazam.

Is it possible to only see a limited number of music options on Instagram?

It’s possible that you can only view a small selection of music. It could be your personal account or copyright laws in your country.

Do you have a business profile? Instagram does not allow business accounts to upload songs. You can switch to a personal account or a creator account. However, you should weigh the pros and cons of having an Instagram business account vs. a creator account.

Your choice of music may depend on where you live. Instagram music is not available in all countries. They also follow the copyright laws in each country they operate in.

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