You may be wondering what criteria we use to find exclusive songs. Here are factors that make songs exclusive or not.

Exclusives

Exclusives are the content that has been specifically created for their respective content (defined as “originals”) or under an exclusive license contract. As such, artists may not have full rights to them.

Exclusive songs are identified when:

1. Released under a record label.
   • Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Records, U/M/A/A, Avex Music Publishing Inc, Pony Canyon, Monstercat, NoCopyrightSounds, etc.
     • NoCopyrightSounds asks any game to obtain their commercial license, regardless paid or not.
2. It has not appeared in any rhythm game other than its origin or other games have collaborated with it. The following lists the songs with the most violation counts.
   • Lanota
     • ARForest - Journey
     • t+pazolite - You are the Miserable
     • かめりあ - Wolves Standing Towards Enemies
   • CHUNITHM
     • t+pazolite - Garakuta Doll Play
   • Muse Dash
     • Ayatsugu_Otowa - Lights of Muse
     • NoKANY - Mujinku-Vacuum Track#ADD8E6-
   • Phigros
     • A39 - 雪降り、メリクリ
     • Daily天利 - Sigma (Haocore Mix) ~ 105秒の伝説 ~
     • Daily天利 - Sigma (Haocore Mix) ~ Regrets of The Yellow Tulip ~
     • Halv - Concvssion
     • Se-U-Ra - Igallta
     • 李化禹 - 996
   • Beat Saber
     • かめりあ - Spin Eternally
   • オンゲキ (ONGEKI)
     • かめりあ - Final Flash Flight
3. Regardless of its origin which suggests that it as non-exclusive, the artist explicitly states that a particular song is under the exclusive license contract.
   • Muse Dash
     • Chicala Lpis - Blackest Luxury Car
   • Cytus
     • Neutral Moon - Dead V-Code
4. It is part of an OST album.
5. The name of the company or game is written in the artist’s post.

Non-exclusives

Non-exclusives are the content released by the artist themselves and not associated with any company. Some songs may get non-exclusive contracts after self-release.

These are relatively easy to get permission as the artist has full rights to them.

Non-exclusive songs are identified when:

1. It has appeared on a few or more rhythm games, but is not marked as an original or an exclusive.
   • Neutral Moon - Another Me
   • HyuN - Infinity Heaven
   • HyuN - Cross Soul
   • siromaru + cranky - conflict
2. The artist has released their songs by themselves or under their self-established label.
   • かめりあ’s albums that start with CTCD and are NOT LICENSED from anywhere
   • Artists published their songs first on their SNS or portfolio without company names (Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.)
3. It is a BMS song. (This is always not the case however.)
   • DOT96 - MAKE IT FUNKY NOW
   • Frums - Pictured as Perfect
   • NceS - Burn

Other situational examples:

• In osu!’s Featured Artists list, some songs are tagged with “ORIGINAL”. These songs were made for osu!, so osu! has the rights to them. However, if the artist has said it is OK to use these songs, then you may use them.
  • cYsmix - Fright March
  • かめりあ - ΩΩPARTS