Australian Played.
Australian Paid.

Australian Played is a Nightlife Music initiative, allowing music fans to easily see and listen to Aussie artists in the world's best commercial venues. Every time a song plays through Nightlife an artist gets paid. From July 1 2025, fans of homegrown talent can also tune-in to Aussie music at home, thanks to our 'Australian Played' curation on Foxtel and Binge.

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Ausmusic Month

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Ausmusic Month

Every November since launch, we’ve participated in Ausmusic Month.

Each year, Nightlife invites clients, artists, music industry partners, and music lovers to show their support for Australian Artists in venues across Australia with Nightlife technology.

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What is Australian Played?

Australian Played utilises the commercial reach of Nightlife Music - Australia’s largest music subscription service for business – and their consumer jukebox app crowdDJ to encourage consumers to pick Australian artists in venues across the country. Nightlife Music has a reach over six million people across thousands of locations including bars, pubs, gyms, restaurants, retail accommodation, leisure and major events, and also brings our Australian-led music programming to lounge-rooms with Foxtel and Binge, where we curate seven music channels.

Why Australian Played?

The Australian Played, Australian Paid concept was devised to make it easier to find and hear your favourite music as well as support homegrown talent whether new, independent, classic, rock, jazz or favourites. Every time a song plays through Nightlife an artist gets paid.

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Your local is the new shop front for discovering and supporting Australian music.

Support Aussie Music

Here's how you can help the Australian music industry.

1. Download the crowdDJ App

Scan the interactive crowdDJ QR codes in venues to choose your music or download the crowdDJ app. With the crowdDJ app your can search up crowdDJ locations in advance, making sure that you can choose Australian Played and your favourite tunes, wherever you like to go out.

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2. Pick Aussie Music

Use crowdDJ to pick Aussie songs in thousands of venues across Australia whether you're dining, enjoying a night out, working out, bowling or even shopping.