There are several types of free and legal music album download sites . The first historically are pure download sites. Then, from the 2000s, came the streaming sites , which also offered the download as an additional service.
Spotify
Spotify is the largest streaming platform in the world in terms of number of subscribers. At the end of 2018, the Swedish platform had 191 million monthly active users worldwide, including 90 million paying subscribers.The site has a portfolio of over 40 million music titles. The platform is accessible via the internet, mobile applications and compatible with the Internet of Things (Amazon Alexa and Google Home assistants). It offers the largest catalog of download music album .
A free offer is proposed to listen to streaming music against the listening of advertisements without possibility of downloading. The free offer has just been refitted and now includes 15 playlists updated daily (against a random read of titles before).
Official Spotify website: spotify
Deezer
The French platform of album music download recognizes the end of 2018 just under 20 million users with a portfolio of music over 50 million music titles titles.While at the creation in 2007 Deezer was a completely free platform, the platform turns to a high-end paying model. This positioning is due to a desire to stand out from the competition.
However, there is still a free offer that allows for limited listening time, with advertising, no possibility of download and a limited catalog of titles. Deezer can be accessed via mobile app and via Google Home or Amazon Alexa helpers.
While Spotify is the world's leading platform for music streaming, in France, Spotify is the most-watched music streaming platform with 50% market share in early 2018.
Deezer official website: deezer
NoiseTrade
NoiseTrade is a platform of independent artists that allows you to listen to and download different types of music (sound effects, background music, music albums etc). Possibility to reward the artist voluntarily.This service is offered by providing personal data (name, email address etc.) that will be shared with the artist. Who will be able to promote directly to his fans.
NoiseTrade official website: noisetrade
Google Play Music and Youtube Music
Launched several years ago, the Google platform has 40 million music titles. The free version does not allow the download of music , there is however a multitude of extensions that offers to back up the audio stream streamed on Youtube.Recently launched in France (early 2018) by Google, the free version of the Youtube Music offer has many limitations.
Youtube Music is an attempt to relaunch under another brand Google Play Music that had not interested the market. Currently GooglePlay Music and Youtube Music coexist in the form of mobile applications.
With impressive catalogs , these services can not be ignored. Their download policy is poorly defined: while the reuse of downloaded music is prohibited; multitudes of mobile applications and search engines specializing in mp3 will search the music available for download on Youtube.
Official Google Play Music site: play.google.com
SoundCloud
Music platform that favors independent rather than commercial music. While the music album download service exists since 2007, it is only in 2016 that SoundCloud has offered a paid offer.The service portfolio comprises no less than 125 million music titles. The free offer is only available for a limited period of time to 30 days.
The service is available on Apple and Android mobile devices as well as on the Xbox platform.
SoundCloud official website: soundcloud
Apple Music
Apple's streaming music service launched recently (2015) is the second-largest streaming service in the world behind Spotify. It accounts for just over 50 million subscribers by the end of 2018.The streaming service is very related to the Apple ecosystem (iTunes) and Android via a mobile application. The service does not offer a free offer but a particularly long trial period (3 months free).
Official Apple Music website: apple
Jamendo
Free music download service of artists who have decided to put their creations under the free license scheme. It is therefore about little or unknown artists who use this service to promote themselves. But with an interesting portfolio of 600 thousand pieces of music.Official Jamendo website: jamendo
Free Music Archive
Download service of royalty free music tracks (Creative Commons license). The archive represents 45 thousand pieces of music in the portfolio. The site has just been recently (end 2018) acquired by KitSplit, a rental site for photographic equipment.Official Free Music Archive website: freemusicarchive
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