Podcast Intro Music Tracks: How to Choose a Catchy Intro for Your Podcast

Podcast intro music is what you often hear at the beginning of a podcast. It’ll gently fade away as the presenter begins to speak. Short as these music clips are, they set the tone for what’s to come. This intro music is like an audio logo. It’s the signature sound that listeners will use to identify a particular podcast. And since it’s the first thing they’ll hear, it establishes the mood for the show. 

It stands to reason that if you’ve decided to create your own podcast, you need to take some time to find the right music. So in this article, we’re offering up 20 great tracks for your Podcast Intro Music to help you start thinking about what your podcast intro should sound like.

All the tracks are royalty-free. To be clear, you’ll need to purchase a subscription to Envato Elements to use them. But once you’ve done that, you’re free to use the music as often as you like, wherever you’d like, based on the terms of your license. And you’ll never have to pay any additional future costs.

Podcast Intro Music: 20 Top Tracks

1. Uplifting & Inspiring Corporate

Uplifting & Inspiring Corporate is a lovely upbeat tune that would be perfect for a variety of podcasts intros. What’s great about the track is that it could also be weaved into segment changes and outros.  

2. Upbeat & Energetic Funky Groove

Upbeat & Energetic Funky Groove is a high energy track with a great funky beat and a signature short chorus of “Heys” at various intervals. Use it as a podcast intro to inject a bit of fun and energy into the opening.

3. Upbeat Uplifting Fresh Inspiring Bright

Upbeat Uplifting Fresh Inspiring Bright features electric and acoustic guitar, drums and percussion to create a cool inspiring optimistic tone that’s great for podcasts that cover any number of subjects from travel adventure to nutrition and lifestyle. 

4. Energetic Upbeat Fun Indie Rock

Energetic Upbeat Fun Indie Rock featuring a catchy guitar hook with indie style vocal elements. The track comes in four lengths: short, medium, standard length and loopable so that if you want to incorporate different elements of the track into your segment breaks, you can do so easily. 

5. Upbeat Happy Pop 

Planning a new podcast and looking for just the right signature track for your intro? Upbeat Happy Pop is a great choice for your educational, lifestyle, or marketing podcast. But it could work well for just about any other type of podcast, too.

6. Event Party

Event Party is a light and easy track that can complement any podcast intro. The track comes in four variations and has an overall feel good sound. It’s not loopable, however. 

7. The Inspiring

The Inspiring is the right title for this vibrant track that could bring an air of youthful energy to your podcast intro. The track features guitars, strings, drums, bass and percussion. It’s available in just one track length but it could be chopped up to use for an intro and inner segments. 

8. Upbeat Corporate Motivational Background

With its inspiring sound and upbeat tempo, Upbeat Motivational Corporate Background offers an uplifting tone that could suit any podcast. It would be work great for business-focused podcasts, however, especially due to its sweeping melody. It includes three track length options and is looped. 

9. Upbeat Indie Rock

Upbeat Indie Rock is another quirky upbeat track that’s so infectious it’ll make the podcast audience want to dance each time they hear it. It’s great for motivational, lifestyle, or creative material and features a twangy guitar and driving percussion and claps. It includes three track lengths. 

10. Picture of My Life

With its great classic rock fused early-aughts sound, Picture of My Life is perfect for your podcast intro or outro. The track is a great signature that will make your podcast recognizable instantly. It comes with one track length option. 

11. Happy Life

Happy Life is a modern and positive track with an infectious and catchy beat. It sounds whimsical and could be great for a family or children’s podcast. It comes with five track length options. 

12. Podcast Intro Background

Using bass, pads and light drums, Podcast Intro Background offers a unique sound that certainly sets a podcast apart. The song comes with four track length variations and has a driving beat but doesn’t overpower.

13. Funky Podcast Intro

Deliver on the old school funk in your new podcast with Funky Podcast Intro. The awesome horn section with funky guitars and groovy drum, claps, bass, and occasional vocal ad libs will help make your podcast unforgettable. It comes with five track length options and is fully loopable.

14. A Funk

A Funk is a bit reminiscent of 70’s police and detective shows. This retro quality will separate any podcast that uses it from the crowd and give it that signature intro sound it deserves. The horn section is a real standout. It includes five track lengths to choose from and is looped. 

15. News

If your podcast is all about news then this track aptly called News is a must try. Elegant and expressive, the track features synth bass, timpani, synth pulse, hits, strings, pads and more. It comes in five versions of varying lengths. 

16. Happy Dance Pop

Happy Dance Pop is a commercial dance pop track with a catchy melody, powerful bass, pop drums and cool guitar. This track comes in MP3 and WAV formats and includes just one length option. 

17. Energetic Upbeat Rock

Energetic Upbeat Rock is a hard indie rock track featuring distorted electric guitars, bass, aggressive and energetic drums, soaring strings, piano and synth. It comes with three track lengths and is undeniably catchy. 

18. Indie Rock

Indie Rock is a fast tempo track with electric guitar, drums, and bass that combine to create an upbeat and happy melody that’s reminiscent of late 90s pop punk. It’s perfect for podcasts in the health and fitness, lifestyle, or food niches. 

19. Energetic Indie Rock

Energetic Indie Rock is an energetic and bright track with great guitar melody and modern vocal samples. It’ll make an excellent podcast intro for your show. The track comes in five versions and is looped.

20. Motivational Uplifting Inspiring Upbeat Corporate

Motivational Uplifting Inspiring Upbeat Corporate is a catchy and energetic guitar melody featuring orchestral strings, piano, marimbas, bells and drums. It comes with five track lengths and can be edited to suit your needs. 

Choose Royalty-Free Podcast Intro Music 

Hopefully, these 20 royalty free podcast intros have inspired you to take your podcast in a bold new direction. And this is just a small selection of the thousands of podcast intro music available at Envato Elements. So if none of these quite fit your needs, there are plenty of other great options to choose from, one of which is certain to be just the thing your podcast is missing. 

If you want to improve your skills building music tracks yourself, then take a look at some of the ever-so-useful music and video tutorials on offer on our blog.