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Ratings & Explicitness

Feed.fm's music rating system helps you define your music content strategy and enjoy peace of mind knowing that each song is on brand and audience-appropriate.

Ratings​

We designed a rating system that ranges from Safe to Extreme (similar to a MPA-style rating system of G, PG, PG-13, etc.). Ratings are determined by Feed's curation team based on the words and themes (such as references to sex, drugs, or violence) present in the music. Each collection is assigned one of the following ratings:

  • Safe: Kid appropriate, everyday language, no explicit themes.
  • Mild: Family-friendly. Censored songs allowed; may contain mild violence or sexual references, no drug mentions.
  • Teen: Censored songs allowed; some strong language, violence, sexual content or drug use.
  • Adult: Mostly uncensored; strong profanity, intense violence, graphic sexual content or strong drug use.
  • Extreme: Uncensored; may include excessive violence, graphic sexual content, aberrational behavior, and drug abuse.

Rating is returned as metadata on Collection responses. See the fetch collections endpoint for the full response shape.

Explicitness​

Explicitness metadata comes directly from rights holders and indicates whether a song's lyrics contain profanity, or whether profanity has been edited out. The API returns one of four values:

  • clean: No profanity.
  • explicit: Contains profanity.
  • censored: Profanity has been edited out (beeps, mutes, or substitutions).
  • unknown: The rights holder did not supply this information.

The explicitness field is returned on individual clip and track objects. At the collection level, Feed provides a boolean explicit property — it is true if at least one song in the collection is explicit, and false otherwise.

See the fetch clips endpoint for the full response shape.