NoCopyrightSounds

NoCopyrightSounds (initialized as NCS), is an English organization which releases electronic dance music (EDM) under a royalty-free license, allowing content creators to freely use music in the videos produced by them.
==Biography==
Billy Woodford is the founder of NoCopyrightSounds. He was born in Preston, United Kingdom in 1991. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University MMU. 
== History==
Billy Woodford created NCS on August 14, 2011 as a music promoter channel. The channel reached 6 thousand subscribers in November 2011.
Their first official release, "Time Leap," by Aero Chord, was uploaded on November 28, 2013. At that point, NCS slowly transitioned to an independent music label.
5 days after reaching 1 million subscribers, NCS released their most popular song, "Fade" by Alan Walker. It reached more than 400 million views on YouTube. However, on November 12, 2021, Alan Walker's contract with NCS ended and cannot be renewed, which means that Fade, Spectre, and Force, all Alan Walker songs, have since been removed from the catalog. The songs are still up on Alan's music channel, as well as his SoundCloud page.
On August 31, 2022, a sub-label was launched called 'Arcade'.
The label is currently ran by Sam, Dan, and Charlotte, while Billy decides to focus on other things in life for now. 
== Genres (By Circle Colour)==
*Red = Drumstep and it's subgenres. Sometimes Dubstep and it's subgenres are 'mislabelled' as Drumstep.
*Orange/Peach = Any genre, predominately used for Synthwave, Synthpop and Nu Disco.
*Yellow = House, can be used for any house genre.
*Green = Trap and it's sub genres, Future Bass
*Mint = Glitch Hop and songs with a tempo of 110BPM (Such as Moombahcore)
*Turquoise/Cyan = Melodic Dubstep and Chillstep
*Teal = Beats/Phonk
*Blue = Dubstep and it's subgenres. Sometimes Drumstep and it's subgenres are 'mislabelled' as Dubstep.
*Purple = Other types of House music, including but not limited to: Future House/Deep House/Future Bounce. (Future Bass used to be given the Purple Circle between 2014-2017)
*Pink = Drum & Bass and it's subgenres
*White = Any Genre
*Black = Any Genre, but is commonly used by music with a dark atmosphere, or songs that have a lot of bass.
*Gray = Trance (hasn't yet been used).
*Lavender = Future Bass
==Gallery ==
===NCS logo history===
The NCS logo has changed numerous times over the years.
NCSLogo1.jpg|This logo was used from August 2011 to September 10, 2011
NCSLogo2.jpg|The first NCS abbreviation logo was used from August 2011 to October 2011
NCSLogo3.jpg|NCS switched to this premature version of the current logo in October 2011. It lasted until February 9, 2013
NCSLogo4.jpg|On November 26, 2011, NCS used this alternate logo
NCSLogoAlt2011.jpg|This alternate logo was used on December 18, 2011
NCSLogo5.jpg|NCS used this version of the current logo sporadically throughout mid-2012
NCSLogo6.jpg|NCS officially started using the current logo on September 14, 2012
Adobe_Post_20190716_223924.png|Ever since Diamond Eyes released "Stars", NCS has started to use this alternate version of the current logo on most of the cover arts for their releases. This includes the cover art for the compilation album "NCS: Elevate"
===NCS layout history===
Similarly, the NCS circles have changed a few times over the years.
Really_old.png|The circle looked like this in 2011-2012 (maybe early 2013)
Old.png|The circle looked like this in 2013-early 2014. this is known as the rusted media circle or rusted circle for short
Somewhat old.png|The circle looked like this in late 2014. this is the 2014 circle
New.png|The circle currently looks like this. This is the modern circle
==Artists on NCS==
Here are the list of all the artists that have releases on NCS:
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*Beave
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*Benix
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*BLUK
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*DigEx
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*Jay Eskar
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*Laney
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*Matthew V
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*Near x Far (duo consisting of Deflo & Lliam Taylor)
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*Nomeli
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*Perk Pietrek
*Peter Piffen
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*Polygon
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*Protolizard
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*Rex Hooligan
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*Riggs
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*Rob Roth
*Robbie Rosen
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*Rxm リム (trio consisting of Rival, Arcando and CRVN)
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*Sam Day
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*Sharks
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*Simon Fougère
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==Artists on Arcade==
Here are the list of all the artists that have releases on NCS Arcade:
*22 Void Beats
*4URA
*Adikop
*Adrian Benson
*Aleya May
*Andrew A
*Barmuda
*Blackryst
*Carpö
*Chris Ponate
*CITYWLKR
*CØDE
*D'Amico & Valax
*Dani King
*DigEx
*Endpoint
*ETikka
*EXXO
*EXYT
*Fayzone
*God's Warrior
*Goodknight.
*Giin
*Halvorsen
*Harddope
*iFeature
*Ima Sobé
*JB Hain
*JESSE KVGE
*joegarratt
*Josh Rubin
*JOXION
*just alex
*JUST DMND
*MADZI
*MANSHM
*Maze
*Mblue
*Meggie York
*METR
*MIHXI
*Nat James
*NEIV
*Netrum
*NO QVLT
*Outlandr
*Raude
*Sam Riley
*SRY
*Tatsunoshin
*Thorne
*Thymen Wiendels
*Toxic Joy
*Trinist
*Vaskan
*VERB
*VIANI
==Trivia==
*NoCopyrightSounds used to have more than 200 songs (Not an NCS Release) in 2011-2013, but they were deleted, due to copyright issues and a promotion to a record label in November 2013.
*Billy Woodford, founder of NoCopyrightSounds, does have a channel of himself, where he usually uploads test videos.
*There is a channel called Deleted NCS - Circle Spectrum that repost all deleted videos from 2013 - 2017
**Billy Woodford does not own this channel
**The owner has a second channel called Deleted NCS - Old Layouts which repost all deleted videos from 2011 - 2013
==Subscriber Milestones==
 
*6 thousand subscribers: November 2011
*100 thousand subscribers: May 7, 2013
*500 thousand subscribers: April 8, 2014
*1 million subscribers: November 14, 2014
*2 million subscribers: June 15, 2015
*3 million subscribers: October 10, 2015
*4 million subscribers: January 8, 2016
*5 million subscribers: March 17, 2016
*6 million subscribers: May 20, 2016
*7 million subscribers: July 26, 2016
*8 million subscribers: October 4, 2016
*9 million subscribers: December 18, 2016
*10 million subscribers: February 28, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqYwgzlucI
*11 million subscribers: May 12, 2017
*12 million subscribers: July 22, 2017
*13 million subscribers: October 5, 2017
*14 million subscribers: December 24, 2017
*15 million subscribers: February 26, 2018
*16 million subscribers: April 30, 2018
*17 million subscribers: June 30, 2018
*18 million subscribers: August 28, 2018
*19 million subscribers: October 27, 2018
*20 million subscribers: January 7, 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkaqZecpUQ&t=1233s
*21 million subscribers: March 10, 2019
*22 million subscribers: May 25, 2019
*23 million subscribers: August 12, 2019
*24 million subscribers: November 4, 2019
*25 million subscribers: February 22, 2020
*26 million subscribers: May 17, 2020
*27 million subscribers: July 27, 2020
*28 million subscribers: October 8, 2020
*29 million subscribers: January 5, 2021
*30 million subscribers: April 17, 2021
*31 million subscribers: August 17, 2021
*32 million subscribers: February 13, 2022
*33 million subscribers: November 2, 2022
==Video View Milestones==
*1 billion views: March 29, 2016
*2 billion views: November 15, 2016
*3 billion views: July 9, 2017
*4 billion views: March 1, 2018
*5 billion views: September 24, 2018
* 6 billion views: April 21, 2019
*7 billion views: November 29, 2019
*8 billion views: June 21, 2020
*9 billion views: December 22, 2020
*10 billion views: July 19, 2021
===Decline ===
*Below 10 billion views: November 13, 2021
===Regrowth===
*10 billion views: March 13, 2022
*11 billion views: March 27, 2024
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