Most of the users download pirated music from the internet, which results in loss of million dollars to the entertainment industry every year. Now you can download and listen wide range of songs for free, and that too legally! Below are the top 10 sites where you can listen/download your favorite songs for free.
1. Amazon
You may have already purchased music from Amazon, but few of you maybe knowing that Amazon offers hundreds of songs and albums to download for free. Currently, they offer more than 1500 songs to download legally and they keep on adding new albums from time to time.
2. Last.fm
Last.fm is the one of the most popular internet streaming radio service and they too offers a wide range of MP3′s to download for free. You can also find some of the rare old songs from 60′s and 70′s at Last.fm
3. In.com Music
If you love Bollywood music, then In.com is the ultimate destination for listening latest tracks from the upcoming Bollywood movies. This site also offers various regional, traditional as well as international songs. In.com offers million of songs to listen online for free. However this site does not allows you to download or purchase any of the songs.
4. Legal Torrents
If you thought torrents are only for sharing pirated stuffs, they you are absolutely wrong since you can download torrents legally via LegalTorrents. LegalTorrents is an online digital media community that distributes high quality open-licensed (Creative Commons) digital media and art. They distribute content with the full permission of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology. You can find hundreds of free music at LegalTorrents.
5. Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive is a great site for downloading legal music. As the name says, all the music in this site are available for free. It has the widest collection of amazing songs and they keep on adding new songs from time to time.
6. MP3.com
MP3.com is one of the most famous site for downloading music, but I’m sure that most of you don’t know that it has a different section for free music. It means that you can download paid music as well as free music from MP3.com. Their collection include thousands of free tracks from small and large artists. Some of the tracks available in the free section are from extremely popular artists.
7. Jamendo
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Jamendo has over 31000 free albums to download. If you are an artist, you can even promote your albums via Jamendo. This site also allows you to donate some bucks to the artiste of your choice. Jamendo is one of the best site to download free music from their ever growing songs library.
8. Amie Street
Amie Street is a unique site where the price of the songs increases as it gets popular. At the starting point, a song is offered for free, once it gets popular, you need to pay a small amount to download them. So, whenever a new song is released at Amie Street, you can grab them for free before it gets popular.
9. Stereo Gum
StereoGum also offers popular songs from small and large artists for free. This site allows you to download the songs of famous artists such as Kanye West, Ben Gibbard and Ryan Adams. Stereogum regularly features unknown artists who go on to become mainstream sensations such as Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, and Fleet Foxes.
10. Live Music Archive
Live Music Archive is a part of the Internet Archive. It has a collection of over 60,000 concert recordings in lossless audio formats. You can also find thousands of public domain music and expired copyright tracks at Live Music Archive.
According to you, which one is the best free music downloading service from the above list? If we haven’t mentioned any of your favorite service, please let us know in the comments.
Hi, wow, you forgot the most awesome one: http://www.grooveshark.com! It’s the one I use daily..
@Mark Poppen
Thanks for letting us know.
Groove Shark is an amazing service
thanks to Mark for his suggestion , this site is a golden
nugget for music addicts like me .
impressive variety and number of all kinds of songs .
in my bookmarks ! MUST HAVE …
Hi all
In a few countries (here in France included):
Spotify (www.spotify.com)
Free version with few adverts & pay version.
Good quality (ogg 160kbps)
No free music download available
Hint: create an account behind a Fr, Se or Uk proxy (no invitation needed for now), you will have 2 weeks of use in your country without proxy. 2 weeks later, use Spotify behind the Fr/Se/Uk proxy (see in ‘preferences’ in the prog itself) for at least 1 or 2 days; il will reset the counter and you will have 2 weeks more. And so on
Works great for Canadian family.
Use Audacity to record it …
Enjoy !
Great, this is the best news for me as I rarely buy CD/DVD because I rarely listen to the same music repeatedly.
I used In.com/music all others are new to me .
I regularly use Last fm.. thanks for sharing others..
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thanks for the list…
Really good one..for music downloading.
great resource to download legal music
Great indeed,but when are you going to post some new material? Same thing for two weeks? You’re about to come off my bookmarks bar!
This is one of my featured posts, hence you see it on top all the time. But I do post new ones everyday which can be seen below the featured posts and also under recent posts widget in the sidebar!
Please except my apologies-just kidding about the bookmark thing anyway.I check your site every day without fail,and always will.I find it to be one of the most informative blogs on the web.Be well Raju!
Thanks for this list, indeed useful to fill mp3 player with good quality songs to make the road more convivial
Thats a great article. Instead of downloading music illegally, we should try these websites.
I like blogs
Thank you very for sharing this information to us. Great job you done.
Hey Great list! Thanks!
but are they the top music sites? or only the biggest?
can someone recommend ?
dawn
Another great site for music and much more is http://www.seedpeer.com!!
Anyone tried mflow. You can earn credit to buy new tracks from recommending songs to your friends. Nice friendly app and great fro getting reviews from new track releases before buying.
http://www.mflow.com