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Instagram Song Finder

Find songs on Instagram by their ISRC code.

Instagram stories with a song added by pasting its isrc: code into music search

Instagram Song Finder


How to use an ISRC code on Instagram

  1. Search for the song or paste its link

    Type a title, an artist, a few keywords or an ISRC into the search box, tap the microphone and say the song name, or paste a song link from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Deezer or SoundCloud.

  2. Select the correct recording

    Check the artist, album, year and length, or press Play preview to hear a short clip. Live, remastered, remixed and sped-up versions are separate recordings with separate codes.

  3. Copy the generated isrc: string

    Press Copy for Instagram to copy the complete string, in the form isrc:XXXXXXXXXXXX, including the prefix.

  4. Open Instagram

    Use the Instagram app on your phone, signed in to the account you post from.

  5. Open the music search

    Start a Story or a Reel and open the music picker: the music sticker in Stories, or Audio when editing a Reel.

  6. Paste the copied string into music search

    Paste it exactly as copied. Don't add spaces or remove the isrc: prefix.

  7. Select the song if Instagram returns the matching recording

    If the recording is in Instagram's library for your account and region, it appears in the results and you can add it as usual.

Good to know: an ISRC identifies a sound recording. It does not mean Instagram has licensed or indexed that recording. Searching by ISRC is not an officially documented Instagram feature and may behave differently depending on your account type, region and app version, so a correct code can still return no result.



Frequently asked questions

Instagram Song Finder is a free web tool by The Atom that looks up the ISRC code of a song and formats it for Instagram's music search. You search by song title, artist, a link from your music app or an existing ISRC, pick the right recording, and copy a ready-to-paste string such as isrc:USUM72409273.

It is an independent tool. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram, Meta or Spotify.

Open the music picker in a Story or Reel and search for the song by name, or paste its ISRC with the isrc: prefix to look for one exact recording. Searching by name often returns covers, remixes and sped-up edits first, so an ISRC search is a more precise way to ask for the original version.

Use the search box at the top of this page to get the code, then paste it into Instagram's music search.

Paste a Spotify track link into Instagram Song Finder and it returns the ISRC that Spotify's catalog lists for that exact track. The Spotify app does not display ISRC codes itself, so a lookup tool that reads Spotify's catalog data is the quickest route.

In Spotify, open the song, choose Share, then Copy Song Link, and paste that link here.

An ISRC, or International Standard Recording Code, is a 12-character identifier assigned to one specific sound recording. It is defined by the ISO 3901 standard and looks like USUM72409273, sometimes written with hyphens as US-UM7-24-09273.

Labels and distributors assign the code when a recording is released, and streaming services, radio and rights organisations use it to tell recordings apart and report plays.

Search for the song, select the correct recording and press Copy for Instagram. That copies the full string including the prefix, for example isrc:USUM72409273, so you can paste it straight into Instagram's music search without editing it.

Copy and open Instagram does the same and then opens Instagram, where you paste the code into the music search yourself.

Usually because Instagram has not licensed that recording for your account or region. Instagram's music library depends on agreements with rights holders, so availability differs between countries, and business accounts often see a smaller library than personal and creator accounts.

A correct ISRC cannot change that. If a search by ISRC returns nothing, try another official version of the song, or check whether the track is available to other accounts in your region.

No. Spotify and Instagram license music separately, so a song can be on Spotify and missing from Instagram, or the other way round. Instagram Song Finder tells you a recording's ISRC; it cannot tell you whether Instagram carries that recording, and there is no public Instagram service that reports it.

ISRC codes are unique to recordings, not to songs. One song can have many ISRCs, because the original studio version, a live take, a remaster, a remix, a radio edit and a sped-up edit are all different recordings.

The reverse also happens: the same recording normally keeps one ISRC wherever it appears, so a single and the album it later lands on can share a code.

Compare the details shown with each result: artist, album, release year, length and labels such as Live, Remastered, Remix or Sped up. Each recording is listed separately with its own ISRC and results are never merged, so you can pick the one that matches what you want.

The most reliable method is to open the exact track in Spotify or Deezer, copy its link and paste it here, which returns that recording and no other.

Didn't find your answer?

Tell us what went wrong or which song you couldn't find, and we'll look into it.


About Instagram Song Finder

Instagram Song Finder is a free song discovery and ISRC lookup tool published by The Atom. It needs no account and no sign-in, and it accepts song links from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Deezer and SoundCloud.

  • Free

    No paywall, no trial and no limits on how many songs you look up.

  • No account

    Nothing to sign up for, and it never asks for your Instagram or Spotify login.

  • Real catalog data

    Codes come straight from music catalogs. Nothing is guessed or generated.

  • One tap to copy

    The code is copied with the isrc: prefix already added, ready to paste.

  • Search by voice

    Tap the microphone and say the song name instead of typing it.

  • Typo friendly

    Misspell the title or the artist and it still finds the song you meant.

Song titles, artists, album artwork and ISRC codes come from Spotify's catalog where that integration is available. When it is not, results may come from Deezer's public catalog instead. Every result shows which source it came from, and codes are shown exactly as the catalog reports them. Nothing is guessed or generated.

Finding an ISRC and finding a song on Instagram are two different things: this site does the first and helps with the second. Read more on the about page, or see what an ISRC is.