Apple Music for Business is gone. Here's what to use instead.
Apple discontinued its business music service after the 2021 Mood Media/PlayNetwork acquisition. Soundsuit is a licensed B2B alternative built for exactly this — commercial spaces in 50+ countries.
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What happened to Apple Music for Business?
Apple Music for Business has been discontinued. Apple never made a public announcement: the service was quietly wound down after Mood Media acquired its partner, PlayNetwork, in 2021 — and Apple offers no business version of Apple Music today.
Apple launched Apple Music for Business in November 2019 together with PlayNetwork, a commercial music licensing provider. It gave retail, hospitality and other commercial venues licensed background music: curated Apple Music playlists combined with programming from PlayNetwork's music supervisors. Customers named at launch included Harrods, Levi's, PizzaExpress, Everyman Cinema and Apple's own retail stores.
In September 2021, Mood Media acquired PlayNetwork. Following that acquisition, Apple Music for Business was wound down without any official end-of-life notice. The signup page went offline, while some app store listings lingered for a while afterwards — which is why many businesses are still unsure whether the service exists.
Where does that leave you? Apple no longer offers a commercial music license of any kind. A standard Apple Music subscription is licensed for personal, non-commercial use only, so playing it in a shop, restaurant, gym or office breaches its terms of service. It also carries the same public-performance exposure as any personal streaming account used commercially — claims from rights organisations such as GEMA, SACEM or ASCAP, depending on your country. The same applies to every consumer music service: Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, YouTube, Tidal, SoundCloud and others. See our Spotify for Business alternative.
Who fills the gap today
Since Apple stepped back, the licensed business-music market that Apple Music for Business was part of is served by dedicated B2B providers — among them Soundtrack, Mood Media (which now owns PlayNetwork) and SoundMachine. What they share is exactly what a personal subscription lacks: a license to play music in commercial spaces.
Soundsuit is one of them — built specifically for retail stores, restaurants, hotels, gyms and offices, with the catalog depth Apple Music users are used to.
Everything Apple Music for Business offered — and more
Soundsuit is a licensed B2B music streaming service, built for commercial spaces in 50+ countries.
Curated stations, not DIY playlists
Apple Music for Business was built on expert-selected playlists. Soundsuit covers the same need: 1,500+ ready-to-use stations curated by sector, mood and season, remixed daily and refreshed weekly — so nobody on your team has to play DJ.
100M+ tracks, commercially licensed
Every genre, language and era — the catalog depth you know from Apple Music, cleared for shops, restaurants, hotels, gyms and offices.
Multi-zone scheduling
Set different music for different spaces and times of day from one calendar. Your lobby, restaurant and gym floor can each play something different — automatically.
Explicit content filter
Strict filtering available — essential for retail, gyms, schools and any venue where you control who's listening.
Central or local control
Manage every zone and location from one dashboard, or let each venue run its own music. Your choice, configurable per account.
Works with Sonos and your audio system
Native Sonos integration, plus Q-SYS, Audac and most other network players via streaming URL.
No new hardware required
Runs on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux. Use the devices you already have.
Bring your playlists with you
On the Professional plan, import your Spotify and Deezer playlists yourself, matched automatically against our commercial catalog. Moving a larger operation off Apple Music? On Enterprise plans, our onboarding team can import your Apple Music playlists on request.
Simple, transparent pricing. No hardware required.
One subscription per music zone. Save with annual billing, or stay flexible with monthly.
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Essential
billed annually · or €34 on monthly billing
For individual venues. Each music zone picks its music and streams on its own.
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Professional
billed annually · or €44 on monthly billing
For multi-zone and multi-location businesses. Centralized control of every zone from one dashboard.
Start free trialVolume discounts from 3 zones. Enterprise pricing for large deployments. See full pricing.
Trusted by 10,000+ businesses worldwide
Trusted by 10,000+ businesses across 50+ countries
Up and running in under 3 minutes
No credit card required. No hardware to install.
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Sign up
Create your free account at app.soundsuit.fm. No credit card needed for your 14-day trial.
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Pick your music
Choose from 1,500+ curated stations by sector and mood, import your Spotify or Deezer playlists, or build your own track by track.
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Play
Stream on any device you already have — phone, tablet, laptop, or your existing network audio player.
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