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Kevin MacLeod
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Artist · United States

Kevin MacLeod

royalty‐free library music composer

Since 1972

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Kevin MacLeod ( mə-KLOWD; born 1972) is an American composer and music producer. Described by The New York Times as "arguably the most prolific composer you've never heard of", MacLeod has composed over 2,000 pieces of royalty-free library music and made them available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) copyright license. Two of his compositions, "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" and "Electrodoodle", are among the most played on TikTok; from January 2021 through September 2026, it was played over 151.8 billion times.

The wide availability and freeness of his work have made it featured in thousands of films and millions of videos on YouTube. As of 2017, his music is featured on one of the live feeds from the International Space Station, Earth From Space. A documentary charting his career, Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod, was released in 2020.

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Kevin MacLeod est un compositeur et producteur musical américain né le 28 septembre 1972 à Green Bay. Décrit comme « le compositeur le plus prolifique dont personne n'a jamais entendu parler » par le New York Times, il est surtout connu pour sa mise en ligne de musique libre de droits sur son site Incompetech.com.

MacLeod a réalisé plus de 2 000 pièces musicales qu'il distribue sous licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. La flexibilité de la licence fait en sorte que son œuvre est utilisée dans des millions de vidéos sur YouTube ainsi que dans des milliers de films et plus d'une centaine de jeux vidéo. Devant le succès de ses compositions, il est considéré comme « sans doute le musicien le plus écouté au monde ».

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