Background music
for hair salons with no PRO fees

The radio loses for three reasons

Most hair salons play the radio, and it's the cheapest way to spoil the experience. First, the ad break in the middle of a haircut that the client has to listen to. Second, hosts whose chatter competes with the conversation between stylist and client. Third, tracks you can't predict, so a salon with a mature clientele suddenly plays something that doesn't belong there.

A steady, curated background fixes all three at once, and it doesn't require the stylist to reach for a phone between clients.

A haircut takes half an hour, styling takes longer

The client sits in front of the mirror and hears the whole playlist. If the mix is short, they'll notice the repeat, and if it's full of recognizable hits, some clients find those irritating. A neutral but not faceless background works better for both.

The schedule changes the tempo by time of day: calmer in the morning, denser in the evening. The front desk doesn't have to switch anything.

Volume and acoustics: hair dryers vs. music

A beauty salon has a problem a cafe or a store doesn't: its own equipment is louder than the music. A professional hair dryer runs at around 80 dB, and clippers and nail drills add a high-pitched whine. If you turn the volume up enough to cut through the dryer, the room will be blaring in the pauses between blow-dries.

The fix isn't volume, it's separation. The main floor and the treatment rooms sound separately, so the floor can carry a slightly denser background while a treatment room stays almost silent. A schedule helps too: calmer in the morning and afternoon, denser in the evening, with the playlist changing by itself.

And one more thing: mirrors, tile and hard materials reflect sound. In a room like that, tracks with sharp drums sound harsher than they did in headphones when you picked them. That's why Harmonia's beauty collections contain no music with an aggressive attack.

No PRO fees for our music

A typical background-music service gives you tracks by well-known artists. The rights to those tracks belong to labels and songwriters, so a salon may also have to deal with a performing rights organization (PRO), such as ASCAP or BMI in the US, PRS for Music in the UK or SOCAN in Canada, on top of the subscription.

Harmonia works differently. Our catalog is original music produced for business use, and a public-performance license for your venue is included in the subscription. Our tracks are not registered with PROs such as ASCAP, BMI, PRS, SOCAN, APRA AMCOS or GEMA, so playing music from our catalog does not create PRO fees for that music.

Launch within one business day

Send an application and we approve it within a business day. After that, the music plays on the devices you already have in the salon: the front desk phone or tablet, a laptop or a mini-PC with a speaker.

Staff don't have to pick anything each morning. Playlists and the schedule are set once, then the music starts by itself and doesn't repeat during a shift. For a chain, everything is managed centrally, by location and zone, from one account.

How much it costs

One plan, no bundles and no extra fees for genres or devices. The price depends only on the number of locations and zones.

Prices are per month when billed annually, which is the cheapest option. Monthly billing is available and costs more. After your application is approved, we send an invoice or a payment link. Full plan terms

Frequently asked questions