Music resides in every heart of the world and every heart loves free music and if it is legal to download too, you can’t ask for more. Here are the 13 best sites on the internet to download free and legal music.

1. Jamendo

Jamendo allows users to download songs from various artists that are absolutely free and legal. The users can listen, share and download music in a easy way. You can also publish your own music and can earn money by building your fan base. There are about 700,000 active members with 28000 published albums.

2. MP3.COM

MP3.com is the most comprehensive archive for free music downloads. It is so popular that it also attracts some  of the big performers. On MP3.com the users can find new talent and artists can promote their own music.  Free MP3 downloads are available from thousands of artists.

3. SoundClick

SoundClick appears to be adding over 40,000 songs each month. This portal also claims to offer over 1 million free tracks. There’s certainly a goodly selection of free mp3 and WMA tracks available for download and streaming in a wide range of genres.

4. Amazon

Amazon is little known for providing free MP3 music but it does have some really nice songs in its store. You have to hunt around the site to grab the goodies on offer. You need to be US citizen and to have a US Amazon account in order to download the songs. This is the music resource for US citizens only.

5. FreeKidsMusic

FreeKidsMusic is a dedicated website for children’s music. This is a great place for finding free music for kids. The site offers no guarantee for the time that a particular song will be available. It also has a traditional music category in which the songs are sorted alphabetically.

6. Epitonic

Great selection of stuff from all sorts of predominantly modern genres. Be sure to check out all the similar artist selections and streams. The site can help you explore new genres with short audio guided tours.

7. Last.Fm

Last.fm offers some great free songs to download including songs from Jaydiohead, Peter Björn and John, The Thermals, White Lies, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. There are about 250 tracks to download on last.fm. Basides these free songs the site also gives you recommendations based on your music taste.

8. 7Digital

7Digital offers free MP3 songs from categories such as Rock, reggae, Hip-Hop, Various and Audiobooks. The Free songs are updated weekly so you get to hear all the latest music you want. It has a very clean looking interface as well.

9. GarageBand

At GarageBand you can listen and download tracks belonging to various genres such as Folk, hip hop, Alternative pop, punk, rock, rap etc. It features track of the week, top songs and sponsered songs.

10. FreeMusicArchive

FMA has a big library of some really nice songs. And as they say its not only free its good music. At FMA, you can browse the songs by curator, by genre, recently added highlights or most interesting highlights.

11. PureVolume

PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Each artist has a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists have the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans can also create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they like.

12 Archive.org – Live Music

Archive.org has a huge collection of downloadable concerts. It has some massive sized file downloads (SHN), although some streaming/downloadable mp3 too. The concerts have been categorized alphabetically in the form of a Etree live concert download service with explicit permission from the bands involved.

13. Spinner MP3

Spinner.com has a MP3 of the Day category under which you can find free MP3 songs to download. The songs are updated frequently so you get to listen all the latest stuff. It has currently around 850 tracks to download, certainly not a huge collection but the songs are really cool.