Background music for your nail studio, without Buma and Sena
If you are looking for music for your nail studio, RadioMatic gives you your own station that adds new music every day in the style you pick. Because the music is generated entirely by AI, no payment is due to Buma/Stemra and Sena.
With RadioMatic from € 29.99 per location per month, without Buma and Sena. News and your own announcements with Professional. See all plans
What do you pay now for music in your nail studio?
Three questions, and you see what you now spend on Buma/Stemra, Sena and your music service.
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What else you get
No worn-out list A nail studio is often small, and in a small space you hear everything. If the playlist starts again from the first track at three o’clock, it stands out at once, to the client across from you and to you. With RadioMatic the music is generated and not played from a list. You pick a style and it stays, and new music arrives every day, and what suits your business comes back as your own hits. You do not have to do anything else about it.
New colours and pedicures announced Between the tracks the DJ moments name your studio and play what you type in. For instance that you now do pedicures as well, that new colours have come in or that clients can book online. You do not need a studio or a recorded voice track for that. Want music only for an hour, then you switch the voices off. On the hour a short news round can follow with what is happening in your town. A treatment takes a long time, so people often carry on talking about it at the table.
No spots from anyone else Advertising from others never comes in between, so you hear no spots from the studio down the road and no three-minute commercial break. If you have a second location, you run both from a single dashboard, with its own mood for each site.
What does music in your nail studio cost? You pay per member of staff, however small your studio
Nail care has its own tariff At Buma/Stemra a nail studio does not fall under the ordinary background music table. There is its own tariff for personal care, which names nail care in so many words. Under it you pay per member of staff in the treatment space and not per square metre. So how big your studio is makes no difference to the bill. On mijnlicentie.nl this sector is not asked about floor area at all. You are asked about your number of staff, the start date and where your music comes from.
Sena's first bracket runs to five Sena also charges per member of staff, but starts with a much wider first bracket. At Buma the first bracket is for a studio with one or two people. At Sena it runs all the way up to five. With two staff you therefore pay Sena exactly the same as with five, and only the sixth person makes that amount move.
A third person doubles Buma At Buma the amount already doubles as soon as a third member of staff arrives. If music plays in several spaces within your building, your staff are added together and not counted per space.
No fees for AI-made music With RadioMatic no payment is due to Buma/Stemra or Sena, because the music is made entirely with AI. Buma/Stemra itself says that music made entirely by AI, without a creative contribution from a person, does not qualify for copyright or payment. The same applies to Sena.
What the law and the court say Sena can only collect for a recording that has been commercially released, and on that ground Sena lost in court in 2025. The full reasoning is in our legal memorandum.
| Buma/Stemra | € 142 |
|---|---|
| Sena, including the RAAP-PPI surcharge | € 204 |
| Together per year | € 346 |
Sources: Buma/Stemra, Tarief Mechanische Achtergrondmuziek Uiterlijke Verzorging, binding tariff text BUM.141.26/01, the matching tariff sheet BUM.441.26/01, Sena, 2026 tariff overview, page 15, table Behandelruimte & uiterlijke verzorging. The Buma scale runs up to 2 staff, then up to 10 and up to 25. The Sena scale runs up to 5, 10 and 25. Nail care is named in the definition of the treatment and practice space in BUM.141. Article 8 of that same text provides that numbers of staff are added together where music plays in different spaces within one building. Amounts per year and base tariff, Buma/Stemra excluding VAT, Sena exempt from VAT and here including the RAAP-PPI surcharge of 26.6%. Details of other providers from their own sites, consulted on 23 September 2026. Also used ECLI:NL:RBGEL:2025:6175.
Music for two people at one table, an hour and a half long
Face to face, a narrow table In a nail studio the client sits right across from you, at a table sixty centimetres wide. That is something else from a shop where someone walks past. There is talk, or there is not, and both have to be possible. Music that runs on evenly makes the silences less awkward. Without sharp peaks the conversation stays at normal volume. Tracks everyone knows the words to pull the attention towards themselves, and at a table like that you want the opposite.
Drill, extraction and lamp There is a sound side to it as well. The extraction is running, the drill makes a high constant tone and with gel polish the lamp comes on top of that. Those sounds sit in a narrow frequency band, and the music has to come through them without you turning it up all the time. What helps is a style with a warm, full sound and without shrill high notes, because those clash with the drill.
Regular clients, different tracks A treatment easily takes an hour and a half, and regular clients come back every three or four weeks. Every playlist runs aground on that combination, because the order becomes recognisable and stays that way. RadioMatic’s music is generated, so the style is fixed and the tracks are not. Want something calmer in the morning than on a Saturday afternoon, then you set that per part of the day and it carries on by itself.
One speaker is enough to start with
What you have is enough You do not have to buy anything. RadioMatic is a stream and it plays on what you already have. A Sonos, a Chromecast, a browser on the tablet or laptop at the desk, or a small amplifier with a line-in that you connect a phone to. If a ceiling system from a previous supplier is still there, it simply stays where it is, because only the source changes.
A separate sound for pedicures If you have a separate pedicure corner or a second space, you can have something else playing there and run both from the same dashboard. With two locations each studio keeps its own mood under one account. You hear back within one working day, and after that your station is live in under ten minutes.
What you can choose from today
No supplier for your trade Look for music for your nail studio and you will not find a provider with its own page for your trade. What there is, is the salon page from Synerplay. Backsound and Tunify offer a package that is the same for every sector.
Two extra bills And with all three you are playing music by human creators. That means two extra bills, from Buma/Stemra and from Sena. Tunify says itself that for commercial use you need a public performance licence of your own from your copyright organisation. What that costs is set out above.
With RadioMatic your regular client, who sits across from you for an hour and a half every three weeks, never hears a fixed order they start to recognise. You pick the style yourself, for instance with some body in the low mid and no shrill top end next to the drill, and in the morning it turns calmer by itself than on a Saturday afternoon. If you have a separate pedicure corner, it gets its own mood.
Why RadioMatic is something other than a playlist or the radio
A business owner who wants music on the premises usually picks from three things. A playlist from a streaming service, an ordinary radio station, or a royalty-free music package. This is where they differ.
| Playlist | Ordinary radio | Royalty-free | RadioMatic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New music | Fixed list | Yes, but not your choice | Limited catalogue | New every day |
| Music that is yours alone | No | No | No | Yes, your own hits |
| Fits the time of day | Switch it yourself | No | Switch it yourself | Automatic |
| Names your business | No | No | No | Yes |
| Your own offers | No | Only if you buy advertising | No | Yes, with Professional, no studio |
| Local news and weather | No | Yes, the station’s | No | Yes, with Professional, your town |
| Other people’s adverts | No | Yes | No | No |
| Several locations | Set up per location | No | Set up per location | Yes, from one place, each with its own mood |
| Buma/Stemra and Sena | Payable | Payable | See the terms | Not payable |
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