Short sleeping songs

Sleeping songs under two and a half minutes long: one gentle tune and then quiet, for a quick lie-down, a last song before lights out or a little one who's nearly asleep already. Dreamy chillwave and ambient downtempo by Purrple Cat, instrumental, every song in full with a free MP3, free under CC BY 4.0.

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A tip for this list

Set the player to “then quiet” and let one song be the whole bedtime.

How these songs were picked

Every song in the book was measured for tempo, loudness, brightness and steadiness. This list scores all 343 on its own rules, takes no more than 2 from any one release, leaves out the spooky albums and orders the picks so the list gets gently softer from first to last. From 10 releases: Sleep Tight, Eye of the Storm, Night Train, House in the Woods, Mellow Skies, Bloom, Cat Nap, A Good Book, Nostalgia and Moving On, Up All Night.

1.
Another DimensionNo. 55 · A Good Book
1:59MP3
2.
Ebb and FlowNo. 248 · Eye of the Storm
2:23MP3
3.
Lost ParadiseNo. 93 · Mellow Skies
2:00MP3
4.
Ball of YarnNo. 74 · Cat Nap
2:29MP3
5.
Chugging AlongNo. 173 · Night Train
2:20MP3
6.
Cat Nip DazeNo. 69 · Cat Nap
2:28MP3
7.
Mysterious PassengerNo. 175 · Night Train
2:15MP3
8.
Wishing WellNo. 84 · Bloom
1:57MP3
9.
It Was Just a DreamNo. 4 · Up All Night
2:28MP3
10.
All Curled UpNo. 327 · Sleep Tight
2:28MP3
11.
I Can't BreatheNo. 36 · Nostalgia and Moving On
1:53MP3
12.
Let's Go ShoppingNo. 3 · Up All Night
1:56MP3
13.
Hiding in My Room Until Everyone LeavesNo. 31 · Nostalgia and Moving On
2:23MP3
14.
EquinoxNo. 81 · Bloom
2:20MP3
15.
DiscoveryNo. 134 · House in the Woods
2:24MP3

Free use

Free to use, with credit.

Using this list under a lullaby video or a sleep stream? It's all free under CC BY 4.0.

Free to use

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Never

Never re-upload or release it on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer or Tidal, through a distributor or any other route.
Never release remixes, samples or covers of it on streaming services either.
Never register it in Content ID or claim other people's videos with it.
Never pass it off as your own or sell the songs as they are.

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Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0