How To Add Music To Instagram Story-Top 5 Ways

Add music to Instagram Story or grab tunes from your favorite music streaming services, like Spotify, SoundCloud, and Shazam. Just follow these simple steps.

If you are into Instagram Stories, then you must have seen people including music on Instagram stories all the time. The links can include song titles along with the platform where it is being played. Do you wonder how to add music to Instagram stories? After Snapchat, Instagram Stories started a new craze of sharing stuff which can be viewed by others following you but disappears after 24 hours. It has been a great success ever since and other social media platforms have been following this trend. Similarly, Facebook stories came into existence following the subsequent demand. Also, you can share Instagram Stories with Facebook Stories.

Recently Facebook 3D Photos is rolling out in Android devices also on iOS smartphones officially announced by Facebook. Now, a 3D photo option is available on Andriod devices.

In this article, we talk about the music sharing platforms which allow its services to be used on Instagram stories. In short, you can share the link to it which will redirect you to that particular app or web page. Video editing apps are also available to put music on Instagram Stories.

Methods To Add Music To Instagram Story

1. Share music on Instagram with the Music Button-

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To make the process simple, Instagram has added a Music button in the stickers list when you post a Story. It will get you to the option of selecting an audio track from the list given by Instagram. This has been seen as very helpful to showcase Instagram stories with a background music effect.

Also, you can make your Insta followers listen to your favorite music when they open your story. Also, you can add a track before recording a video directly from the camera option in an Instagram Story. So when your followers on Instagram watch your story the particular part of the song will play along. This is certainly a fun and more creative way to share your stories with your Instagram followers.

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2. Spotify Instagram Story-

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Spotify is the new music app everyone is using nowadays. Since it got your audio tracks, podcasts, and unlimited songs. With Spotify Premium, you can listen to all of that even offline. With Spotify, you can share the current playing track or another one on Instagram stories easily. To share Spotify on Instagram, all you have to do is go to the track and click on the Share button. It will show you Instagram stories as one of the options. Making it convenient to give it as a link and anyone following you will be directed to the Spotify app.

3. Soundcloud Instagram Story-

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Share Soundcloud on Instagram story smoothly by using the feature on the app. To share the songs from your Soundcloud app, all you need to do is choose an audio file. Then play it and it will show a share button, as you click on it, Share on Instagram Story appears as the first option. Tap on that and it takes you to your Instagram app. The Instagram Story will feature a cover image used in the song/ audio/ podcast. You can move the audio link sticker around to make it more presentable. Add stickers or text on it just like you do for regular Instagram Stories. In short, this is the simplest way to share for what you are listening to right now with your Insta followers.

4. Pandora Instagram Story-

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The newest way to share music on Instagram Stories is Pandora. Although this app is only available in the US, it is one of the biggest names for audio clips, songs, and podcasts in the form of a radio service for iOS users. To reach out to more people Pandora has allowed people to listen to music via Instagram stories. Once a Pandora user shares the audio link on the Instagram Story, people can click on the link to hear it for free. All you have to do is click on the Pandora audio card shown in the Instagram stories.

5. Add Song from Shazam to Instagram Stories

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Different from other music services, the now Apple-owned Shazam identifies a song you're already listening to and identifies it for you. It's particularly helpful when you don't know who made a song or you can't remember what it's called. You can also get the app to play music and send it to Instagram.

Open the Shazam app. If there's music playing near you, allow the app to recognize the song, then tap the song in Shazam. Tap More > Share > Instagram Stories to send the song and its artwork to the Instagram app.

Wrapping up:

With these many options to share music on Instagram Stories, we would like to hear your choice. As it is a very common and easy method, you would see more and more people be sharing their current track on Instagram with their fellow Instagram. Let us know your take on them in the comments section below. Please subscribe to our newsletter to get updates. Follow us on social media Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Share the article with your circle.