10 Most popular free music download websites that you should bookmark always to listen great music online

Napster takes first place in our top ten list of music download sites and wins of our No. 1 Choice Award. As you may recall, back in 1999 it was Napster that catalyzed a revolution in the music industry when it made it easy for anyone to freely download music over the internet and share it with their peers.

 

 

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 5 years you will have heard of iTunes. It is currently the biggest online music store by far and claims to have sold over 5 billion songs. Some of you may wonder then why we didn’t give iTunes the much sought after top place in our music service reviews.  

Real Rhapsody is one of the biggest, most popular and best value music download sites going. It’s not hard to see why, when you take a look at the huge list of great features it offers. Real Rhapsody is a truly exceptional service for some key reasons. First comes the pure, uncompromising convenience Rhapsody offers. Imagine being able to get at virtually any tune you could ever think of wherever you are.  

 

Well worthy of a high spot in our top ten list of online music services is eMusic.com. This well established service offers a great variety of features and a wide range of tracks from artists you have heard of and many whom you haven’t. It’s unique pricing plan also means that you can download tracks for a lot cheaper than you will find them elsewhere.  

 

Amazon MP3 is a relatively new competitor in the music download service market. It hasn’t been around as long as some of the big boys, but still offers a huge library of music to download. Building on the Amazon brand name, and offering the high level of customer service we have come to expect, Amazon MP3 is a serious contender in our top ten list. Here’s why…  

 

The no-frills superstore giant Walmart now offers a music download service as an extension of its web presence. As you might expect, the service is certainly no frills, but does offer some of the cheapest prices around. However, for the most part it’s a good service with only one or two points which let it down. Let’s start with the good stuff though. Firstly, we really liked the Walmart music website. It’s really cleanly laid out and only provides…

 

 

Zune Marketplace is the online music service offering from Microsoft. As such it integrates fantastically with any other Microsoft product, but anyone using anything different might want to think twice. The service it provides is pretty good, especially if you own a Zune portable player, but its complex pricing and compatibility issues let it down. ZuneMarketplace is really geared towards owners of the Zune portable player. It offers an all-you-can-eat subscription service which provides lots of great features  

 

Puretracks is about as average as it is possible to get. It doesn’t particularly excel at anything, but doesn’t really do anything that badly either. With an average sized music library, averagely designed website and average prices Puretracks will probably be happy that it’s sitting somewhere around the middle of our top 10 list. However, happy would probably be too strong an emotion for Puretracks, lets just say it wouldn’t be fussed either way. 

MP3.com.au is a cross between a music download service and a social networking tool for unsigned artists. It provides new artists with a forum for the music they produce and lets them promote it to a worldwide audience. It’s a great web site for new music enthusiasts, but you won’t be downloading the latest chart releases here. The best thing about MP3.com.au is that it is completely free. If you want to upload your own content they provide free…

 

HMV Digital is the online arm of the huge UK based music retailer. As such you can expect a huge music library to choose from, which is constantly updated with the latest tunes. The service is only available in the UK at the moment so those at the other side of the pond may have to look elsewhere. HMV has a huge high street presence in the UK and have extended this to the digital world. The downloads web…

 

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