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Seasonal · Highlight Reels

Sports highlight reel music. Built for the edit, not the calendar.

Instrumental music for weekly top plays, season and career recap montages, recruiting reels, and awards banquet videos, across every sport. Intense sports need intense music, and the highlight reel never really goes out of season.

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Highlight reels at a glance

The season
Year-round, no true offseason
Peak weeks
End of every season, recruiting season, and awards banquets
Start your music search
Whenever the footage starts coming in
The soundDriving electronicHard-hitting hip-hopEpic orchestralRock energyInspirationalDramatic

Networks and brands that license our music.

  • Disney
  • HBO
  • Netflix
  • ABC
  • CBS
  • ESPN
  • Paramount
  • Fox
  • Lionsgate
  • Marvel

How licensing works

Three steps. Clean, clear and simple.

  1. Step —01

    Browse

    Search the catalog by style, mood, use, instrumentation, tempo and duration or use Jessica, our AI music supervisor for assistance. Preview the results in seconds.

  2. Step —02

    License

    Direct purchase and download include nearly all licensing you will need, with the exception being in-theatre film release. Subscription-based licensing is covered by an annual blanket license.

  3. Step —03

    Use

    After payment is received for direct purchase or subscription purchase, you will have the appropriate licensing documentation in hand. You are clear to sync the music with your production.

How the library works for you

Nearly every title, ready for the scene.

Nearly every title in the catalog works the same way, built so the version you need already exists.

  • 01

    The full theme, plus alternates

    Each title includes a theme version with all the instrumentation, and usually alternate versions with less instrumentation for quieter moments in the scene.

  • 02

    Broadcast lengths, included

    Most titles include edits at common broadcast lengths of 60, 30, 15, and stingers, plus versions separated by sections or parts.

  • 03

    One standard license

    The standard license covers nearly every use. The only exception is theatrical release, which requires an additional license. Contact us with a request for quote and we will respond quickly with a license that meets your requirements.

The highlight reel calendar

Every season ends with an edit to finish.

Highlight reels never really go out of season. Here is how the edit calendar tends to break down across sports and programs.

  1. During the season

    Weekly top plays

    Top-10 and play-of-the-week packages need a fresh track most weeks, without a fresh music search every time.

  2. End of season

    Season and career recaps

    Wrap-up videos and senior tribute montages need something with a longer emotional arc than a single weekly package.

  3. Summer and fall

    Recruiting reel season

    High school and college athletes assembling recruiting video for coaches and scouts need music that holds up under fast cuts of game footage.

  4. Awards banquets

    Banquet and awards video

    End-of-year banquets and awards presentations call for a more polished, cinematic underscore for a room full of families and teammates.

The sound of the highlight reel

From the build to the big hit.

The best highlight music matches the rhythm of the edit as much as the sport itself. Six places to start your search.

Where highlight reel music shows up

The edits that run on highlight music.

Highlight reel work is edit-driven, so the music needs to arrive ready to cut to, at the lengths the edit actually needs.

  • Weekly Top Plays & Countdown Packages

    Top-10 and play-of-the-week video for broadcast, team social accounts, and league shows, built around a fresh track most weeks.

  • Season & Career Recap Montages

    End-of-season wrap-ups and senior tribute videos that need a longer emotional build across a full edit.

  • Athlete Recruiting Reels

    High school and college athletes assembling recruiting video for coaches and scouts, cut tight around game footage.

  • Team Banquets, Awards & Creator Edits

    Banquet videos, awards presentations, and the fan and creator edits that turn game footage into its own highlight reel.

FAQ for sports highlight reel music

Common questions

It depends on the moment. A weekly top-play package often calls for driving electronic or hard-hitting hip-hop with a build and a drop. A season or career recap leans into emotional piano and strings, or epic slow-motion orchestral for the biggest plays. The GMP catalog covers that full range.

Yes. The catalog is built around the edit, not a single sport, so the same lanes, driving electronic, hip-hop, epic orchestral, rock, and emotional piano builds, work for highlight video across any team, program, or event.

Highlight editing does not really stop for an offseason, so the catalog is there whenever a new game, a new recruiting reel, or a season recap needs a track. Many teams and programs keep a short list of favorites on hand for whenever the next edit comes together.

Yes. The standard license covers almost everything, so the same track can run across a weekly top-play package, a season recap, a recruiting reel, and a banquet video. The only exception is theatrical release, which requires an additional license. Contact us with a request for quote and we will respond quickly with a license that meets your requirements.

Nearly all of our titles have a few things in common: a theme version with full instrumentation, alternate versions with less instrumentation, edits at common broadcast lengths of 60, 30, 15, and stingers, and versions separated by sections or parts.

About sports highlight reel music

One reel, every sport, and a soundtrack for each part of the edit.

Sports highlight music has to do a lot of work in a short amount of time: set the pace of the cuts, build to the big moment, and get out of the way of the play-by-play or the crowd noise. GMP Music licenses sports highlight music and highlight reel music across that whole range, produced and recorded by accomplished composers in recording studios specifically for GMP Music. Intense sports need intense music, whether the highlight is a single game-winning shot or a full season of them cut down to ninety seconds.

Producers, editors, and sports creators use it as sports montage music for weekly top-10 and play-of-the-week packages, music for highlight videos covering season and career recaps, athlete recruiting reels for high school and college prospects, and team banquet and awards video. Nearly all of our titles include a theme version with full instrumentation, alternate versions with less instrumentation, edits at common broadcast lengths of 60, 30, 15, and stingers for transitions, and versions separated by sections or parts, so one track can carry an edit from open to closing graphic.

Licensing is clean and simple. The standard license covers almost everything, so the same highlight track can run across broadcast, a team's social accounts, a school's recruiting page, and a banquet screening. The only exception is theatrical release, which requires an additional license. Every license includes master and publishing rights for the GMP-owned catalog, with clear documentation for your production.

Whether the edit is a weekly countdown, a season-ending tribute, or a fan-made highlight reel, we are eager to assist you in your music search, to find just the right track that will represent your brand and vision for your media project.

More from the sports calendar

The games that feed the highlight reel.

See the full seasonal calendar

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