Exclusive Licensing

Exclusive Vocals for DJs & Music Producers

Give your next record a voice nobody else can own. An exclusive vocal is a human performance licensed to one producer and then taken off the market, so no other release can be built on it.

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Why Exclusive

Why Choose an Exclusive Vocal?

An exclusive vocal is licensed to one producer and removed from the HitVocals marketplace. Nobody else can license that performance to build their own release, and it has never been released before, so the topline you put out is not one a listener has already heard on somebody else’s record.

That matters most when you are putting real time and money into a track. Finding the vocal, building the production around it and then hearing the same performance on a competing release is a risk a non-exclusive licence carries by design. An exclusive licence removes it: the performance is yours to build the record around.

It is also more than insurance against duplication. A singer’s tone, phrasing and delivery become part of what the record is, and those are difficult to manufacture and harder still for another producer to copy. Exclusive licences run for an initial three years and become perpetual once you release the track, which is why they cost considerably more than a non-exclusive one.

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Stand Out

Human Vocals in a Market Full of AI

Making music has never been easier. Tools such as Suno and other generative AI platforms will produce a song, a vocal and a finished-sounding production in seconds, and the volume of music being released is climbing accordingly.

That leaves producers and DJs with a harder problem than it solves. When anyone can generate a competent record, a competent record stops being the thing that gets noticed. A generic vocal makes a strong production feel interchangeable; a distinctive human performance does the opposite.

Singers bring emotion, attitude, phrasing and the small imperfections that turn a lyric into a performance. That is why every vocal on HitVocals is sung by a real person, and why we do not accept fully AI-generated vocals. Our open letter on human artists sets out the reasoning in full.

License one exclusively and you are not adding a voice to an instrumental. You are adding a performance that nobody else can license from us.

The Song

A Great Instrumental Is Not Enough

You can spend weeks on an instrumental. The mix can be enormous, the drop can land, and it can sound superb on a club system. For a record to travel past the dancefloor and compete for streams, radio and the kind of recognition that lasts, listeners usually need something to hold on to.

They need a song. Across dance, house, EDM and pop, the vocal is generally the part people remember, and it is the part they can repeat. An instrumental earns attention; a topline gives an audience something to sing.

Very few producers chasing a global record want their defining track remembered as a good instrumental. Finding the right topline is one of the more consequential decisions in the process, which is why a vocal is worth spending on rather than settling for.

Finding It

Find a Vocal That Makes Your Record Different

Finding the right vocal can make or break a track, and it is the part of a production hardest to fake. The difficulty is not matching key and tempo - it is finding a voice with character, a hook worth repeating and a performance that gives your production an identity.

You are browsing finished recordings rather than commissioning one, so you hear the whole performance before you decide rather than briefing a singer and hoping.

  • 100% human-performed, never AI-generated
  • Unreleased, so no listener has heard it before
  • Licensed to one producer and then off the market
  • Written as a complete topline, not a fragment
  • Delivered as WAV stems, wet and dry
  • Reviewed by our A&R team before it goes live
  • Licensing terms shown before you commit

If nothing in the library is right, our custom vocal hooks service writes and records an original human vocal to your track instead.

The Collection

Exclusive Human Vocals by HitVocals

Every exclusive vocal on the platform is sung by a professional vocalist and reviewed by our A&R team before it goes live. Each one is a full topline - written, performed and delivered as stems - so you are working with the parts rather than a bounced file, and you can produce, edit and arrange it around your record.

Every one is also unreleased. Once you license it exclusively it comes off the marketplace, and nobody can come along later and license the same performance for their own release.

If you want a performance that has never existed anywhere before, our custom vocal hooks service writes and records to your track. If you are weighing an exclusive licence against a non-exclusive one, the non-exclusive guide sets out exactly what changes.

Trusted by DJs & Music Producers

What professionals say about HitVocals:

James Wiltshire

James Wiltshire

The Freemasons / F9 Audio

I’m very impressed with this as a Platform .. it’s a producer’s dream!

DASCO

DASCO

Producer

Surprised by how good this platform is. The vocals are worldclass.

Vintage Culture

Vintage Culture

DJ/Producer

Extremely professional vocals and run by a great team.

Alex Zind

Alex Zind

DJ/Producer

Simply an ingenious platform. I LOVE IT !! New vocals every day.

AudioTrip

AudioTrip

DJ/Producer

Slick & professional website, top quality vocals and awesome support.

Soulshaker

Soulshaker

DJ/Producers

This is a vocal gold-mine! Tonnes of unique vocals here you wont get anywhere else.

Independent customer reviews

One Voice. One Track. Yours.

Find a professional human performance with a topline worth building around, licence it exclusively, and it comes off the market. Nobody else gets to release the same performance. Browsing is free.