Shakespeare said “ He who hath no music in him is fit for treasons and spoils.” True indeed, many generations have passed since the great writer wrote these words, but its passing influence has not seem to fade away till now, even at the threshold of the 21st century. The present music industry is thriving and is making progress in leaps and bounds. There are a number of genres of music today, which would be alien to the great Shakespeare himself. Nevertheless, the music has outshone all the other passions and people from all the generations are going gaga over it.

The online music too has made it presence felt in the contemporary times. A plethora of online music sites are catering to the needs of the users by giving them free online music downloads, or their favourite music CD at the CD store. So the consumer can directly go to any of the music websites and get the music of their choice.

Apart from the increase in the music business, there are various other advantages of the online music that have also been observed. Like 'not so popular' songs are also revived by these websites and they also become popular with this medium. Often, there are various songs that we have hardly seen on TV but we love it just by mere listening it from the Internet. In this way, the music is advertised and made popular with the netizens. This ends up in the increase in the sale of the music.


Also, Internet has also made the lyrics of the various songs available to the masses, that makes them more drawn to their favourite songs, with the knowledge of their accurate lyrics. Also, there are some websites that solely deal with playing your favourite song and no downloading it. And there are certain softwares that allow you to transfer your choicest numbers into your MP3 player or mobile phone, giving a mobility to your music.

Thus, online music has indeed paved the way to the popularity of music.


Jayson Pablo, professional writer works for xpert4u which provides online music and java games.