Top Music Download Sites

From LoveToKnow Music

When you’re looking for the top music download sites, the search can be a little daunting. Just when you think you’ve hit pay dirt and found a great website chock full of your favorite tunes, you start the downloading process only to discover you’ve just infected your computer with some homemade virus that is going to email itself to your entire address book. Or you find out that the download is not the download it claimed to be at all, but rather is a track from another home recording hopeful with more delusion than talent uploading their tracks to the internet and naming the files as some Top 40 hit song. Drop those zero downloading sites and get with the heroes – LTK Music has braved the world of music downloading websites to find the best music download sites around. Here, we bring you the list of our favorites. Some of these sites offer free music, and some offer music for a fee, but they all offer top notch music download choices with very little danger of downloading something will make your computer explode. Or something.

The Top Music Download Sites

LTK Music

Now, we don’t mean to toot our own horn, but have you checked out our music downloading section lately? What makes LTK Music a contender for the award of best music download site is that our downloads are nicely grouped by genre. No more digging through piles of nonsense to find the song your want. If you want, say, gospel music downloads, then Christian music downloads you shall have, and nothing else. This set up is also a great way to discover new genres of music; if you’ve been meaning to check out British rap music, then this is an easy way to hear some of the standouts in the genre, without parting with a lot of cash before you have become a fan.

Did we mention our downloads are free?

Download.com

Download.com has this whole music download game figured out. They have well over 70,000 tracks to choose from, in just about every genre imaginable. The songs come from your favorite top selling artists, and your favorite artists yet to be discovered. Sometimes Download.com features live concert streams, free music videos, and entire album downloads. The best part – it’s all free for the taking.

E Music

Unlike our first two choices, E Music is not a free downloading site, but don’t hold that against them. Monthly subscription plans start around $9 a month for 25 downloads, which is not bad at all for access to an enormous database of indie music greats. In fact, if indie is your bag, there is no better site out there for you. Now, don’t expect to indulge your chart topping guilty pleasure with the help of E Music, but for getting that hard to find track, you can’t do better.

Amazon

Yes, that Amazon. This mega online retailer also does a nice sideline in free music downloads. Searching the site takes a little time, but when you hit the mother lode, well, you’ll become a believer. The free music on Amazon is always changing, as well, so it pays to stop on by the site often.

Best Music Download Sites – Honorable Mentions

While these sites didn’t make it to the top of our list, we can’t really complain about them, either:

MTV
VH1
iTunes – great site, as long as you have an iPod
Yahoo Music

Your Favorite Music Download Sites

What’s the top music download site in your book? Let us know! Leave a comment at the bottom of the page, and let us in on your little slice of music downloading heaven.