Symphonic lands Roblox deal, artists get paid for every play

Symphonic is stuffing Roblox's music library with hundreds of thousands of curated songs, and artists will get paid every time one plays. The Tampa-based music technology and services company announced the deal Thursday (November 12), saying it will collect those royalties and pass them to rightsholders according to their publishing contracts.

The catalog is already live in the Roblox Creator Store, where developers can preview each track for 15 seconds before dropping it into a game. Songs plug in through sound objects, jukeboxes and other in-game items, according to Symphonic.

The agreement also reaches into Moments, the Roblox app tab that serves up clips of other players' gameplay and lets users jump into the games shown. Roblox launched Moments in beta in 2025, with recording clips capped at 30 seconds, edits, added music and sharing.

The music spans Latin, hip-hop, pop, rock and electronic, pulled from what Symphonic calls up-and-coming and established artists. CEO Jorge Brea said the company is always hunting for new ways to put its artists in front of listeners: “They have already done such a great job integrating music into their platform through live online events, and we want to be a big part of their move into music discovery across environments.”

Roblox's Head of Music Partnerships, Jessica Meehan, framed the signing as a creator play, pointing to Symphonic's deep Latin American catalog mirroring the platform's creator growth in the region. “Partnering with Symphonic enriches our library with sounds that reflect our community's diverse preferences,” she said.

Symphonic joins a line of distributors feeding Roblox. Too Lost cut a similar July partnership adding thousands of its tracks to the Creator Store, and in 2024 Roblox ran an invite-only DistroKid beta announced that September alongside plans for music charts — one that required artists to own 100% of their publishing and skip performing rights organizations like ASCAP or BMI. Symphonic, founded by Brea in 2006 and billing itself as 100% independent, acquired Distro Nation in March, launched the Symphonic NEXT program in April, and raised a $37 million Series B led by NewSpring and Ballast Point Ventures in 2022.