As you may know, I am always on the search for cheap mp3 sites. And I have found loads of them! But they aren’t all good. So I review each one in turn and decide if it’s worthy of appearing here or not.

My newest addition is MP3 Panda. It’s a fantastic little site, with a very funky and unusual design! And who knows what sort of Panda’s listen to mp3s, but hey, songs are cheap and they work with my iPod, so I really don’t mind!

Songs on this site are just 5¢ each! This makes them the cheapest site of the ones I have reviewed so far. But there is one catch, their minimum top up is very high, at $29.95. Some regions will see the minimum as $20.00, which is a little more affordable!

But they do have a good selection of music with one of the largest music libraries. They also give their customers a free album everyday! So no complaints here!

Compare all my cheap mp3 sites on the Comparison Table.

Read the review here: MP3 Panda Review

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Currently, my recommended site is MP3Million. This is going to change yet again, back to MP3va. The two sites are both great, but MP3va are better.

Their site is very up-to-date, easy to use, has a great selection of music available and their customer support is beyond excellent. They are extremely helpful, they reply to emails and will fix any problems you might have as best they can.

Registration is free and you will get 30¢ credit, which is enough for two songs of your choice to try the site out with.

Their minimum top up price is great too, at just $14.95, so even when your a bit broke, you can get some great cheap mp3s.

They have also increased the size of their music library, meaning you have more choice of great music.

Go to MP3va for some really cheap mp3s!

MP3Million are offering their customers 50% off all mp3 albums on the site. This means that they are offering loads of albums for under €1! Tracks remain at €0.10 though, so if you want more than a few tracks off a new album, it will work out cheaper to buy the whole album.

MP3 Million’s albums usually come with a 20% discount, so even after this offer has gone, they are a great site for cheap mp3 albums.

Make sure you get this offer while you can, MP3 Million’s offers come and go very quickly! If you miss it, don’t worry though, they always offer something else pretty much straight away!

Get over to MP3Million now for some great half-price mp3 albums!

Each site I have reviewed give you their own little something to say ‘thank you for being a customer’ each and every time you top up your account with them.

Here is a run down of who’s giving what and what the best deals are:

MP3va 
This site offers free credit when you top up:

Top up $29.95 and they give you $15.00
Top up $49.95 and they give you $50.00

MP3 Panda  
This site offers free credit when you top up:

Top up $49.94 and you will get $10.00
Top up $99.95 and you will get $30.00

LegalSounds 
This site offers free songs when you top up:

Top up $39.00 and you will get 50 free songs
Top up $50.00 and you will get 80 free songs
Top up $100.00 and you will get 200 free songs

MP3Million 
This has site has two deals running:

When you top up €29.95, they give you €10.00
When you top up €49.95, they give you €50.00
Or:
When you top up €19.95, they give you 500 Free Downloads for a month
When you top up €49.95, they give you 1500 Free Downloads for a month

You chose which deal you want when you go into the ‘add to balance’ screen. I’ve written about how to get each deal in full on a previous post: MP3 Million Top Up Offers

Soundike 
This site also gives you free credit when you top up:

Top up $24.95 and they give you $10.00
Top up $49.95 and they give you $50.00

MP3Million are offering the soundtrack to the brand new film from the creators of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline for just €2.56.

Great value when you look at how many tracks the album has; 32 fab songs from the movie are all here in this album:

1. End Credits – Bruno Coulais (01:54)
2. Dreaming – Bruno Coulais (02:20)
3. Installation – Bruno Coulais (02:28)
4. Wybie – Bruno Coulais (02:07)
5. Exploration – Bruno Coulais (02:01)
6. Other Father Song – They Might Be Giants (00:28)
7. The Supper – Bruno Coulais (01:31)
8. Bobinsky – Bruno Coulais (02:23)
9. Fantastic Garden – Bruno Coulais (01:34)
10. Coraline Fly – Bruno Coulais (00:24)
11. Trap For The Mices – Bruno Coulais (01:34)
12. Mice Circus – Bruno Coulais (01:27)
13. Dreams Are Dangerous – Bruno Coulais (01:27)
14. Sirens Of The Sea – Bruno Coulais (01:38)
15. In The Bed – Bruno Coulais (01:54)
16. Spink And Forcible – Bruno Coulais (00:33)
17. It Was Fantastic – Bruno Coulais (02:10)
18. Ghost Children – Bruno Coulais (01:28)
19. Let’s Go – Bruno Coulais (01:09)
20. Playing Piano – Bruno Coulais (02:48)
21. Wybie That Talks – Bruno Coulais (02:09)
22. Cocobeetles – Bruno Coulais (01:39)
23. Alone – Bruno Coulais (00:52)
24. Dangerous – Bruno Coulais (02:23)
25. Reunion – Bruno Coulais (01:10)
26. Coraline Dispair – Bruno Coulais (01:27)
27. The Theater – Bruno Coulais (01:33)
28. The Famous Mister B – Bruno Coulais (02:33)
29. You Know I Love You – Bruno Coulais (04:27)
30. Mechanical Lulluby – Bruno Coulais (02:24)
31. The Hand – Bruno Coulais (03:14)
32. The Party – Bruno Coulais (02:32)

The album is retailing at $18.00, so head over to MP3Million now to get this great deal on the Coraline Soundtrack.

So out of the four sites I review, what is the best for me to use based on their payment method options?

Well, as you might expect, each one allows you to pay slightly differently.

MP3Million  
This site takes MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron (handy for the students among us!), Maestro, uKash, PaySafe and DaoPay. The minimum top up is €19.95.

LegalSounds 
This site accepts four methods: MasterCard, Visa, uKash and PaySafe. Their minimum top up amount is is $25.00.

MP3Panda 
This site accepts just Visa and MasterCard. The minimum top up is quite high at $29.95.

MP3va and Soundike 
Both of these sites accept MasterCard and Visa only. They did offer PayPal, but this has since been removed. I have contacted them about this and it is due to be added soon. Watch this space! The minimum top up on both sits is $14.95.

As always, I like to keep you guys up to date with what’s happening in the world of cheap mp3 songs! And as soon as something changes, I’m all over it! As such, I have updated the comparison table, as MP3va have randomly reduced the number of tracks that are on their site, from 1,810,000 down to 1,176,497.

After digging around on the site, it seems that they haven’t actually removed music, but have cleaned it all up. Duplicates have been removed, singles tracks that appear on albums have been removed as you can purchase individual tracks from the albums (there is no point in having both) and duplicate artists have been merged.

MP3va have done a good bit of spring cleaning it seems, and this is great news, it makes the site even nicer to use than before! Well done guys!

As always, any other updates to the sites will be written about asap, so check back for the latest, most up-to-date info on cheap mp3s.

Click to see the new Comparison Table.

MP3va are a great site for cheap mp3 songs. They have a large selection of music (over 1,176,497 tracks), a clean, crisp site design and a low minimum top up price at just $14.95.

What they are less known for however, is the type of music they offer on the site. If a band has ever offered a special edition CD, a live album, remixes or limited editions, MP3va will more than likely have it ready for you to download at a ridiculously low price.

For example, if you like Lily Allen, which a lot of people do, you can grab her new album, ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You‘ from MP3va for just $1.44.

But there is also a new album, simply titled ‘Remixed’, which you can grab for the same price. This album consists of 12 remixed tracks:

01. Everyone’s At it [recreational mix] 
02. The Fear [fearchestral version]
03. Not Fair [uncool mix]
04. 22 [23 mix]
05. I Could Say [function mix]
06. Back To The Start [this is just a remix]
07. Never Gonna Happen [what's happening mix]
08. Fuck You [fossa nova mix]
09. Who’d Have Known [moss side mix]
10. Chinese [toolie mix]
11. Him [riot hymn mix]
12. He Wasn’t There [welsh mix]

You can get the whole album, or just the ones you like for 15¢ each. Buying the whole album saves you 36¢, that’s enough for two more songs with a bit left over, so if you’re a Lily Allen fan, it might be worth investing in the album rather than individual tracks.

None of the other sites I review offer this album, so if you are after something a little bit different, MP3va would be the site I recommend to you.

A common question is: “Will these downloads work with my iPod and iTunes?”

The simple, and complicated, answer is Yes.

The music you download from any of these cheap mp3 sites will be downloaded to your pc. This is usually found in either ‘My Downloads’ or ‘My Music’ on your pc.

The only time they will be saved elsewhere is if you have your internet browser set to save your downloads elsewhere. This is usually another folder, the desktop or the pc hard drive. Either way, it’s fairly easy to locate, just check your browser options to find out.

Once you have located them on your pc, just open up iTunes, click on ‘File’, then ‘Add File to Library’.

Find the folder your downloads are saved into (My Music, My Downloads, wherever you found it earlier) and click on the songs you want to add to iTunes. (To select more than one songs, hold down the ‘CTRL’ key on your keyboard while you click each track. This will select multiple tracks. Be careful not to let go of CTRL while you click or you will deselect everything).

Once you have selected all the songs you want, click ‘Open’. This will add all the selected tracks to your iTunes library ready to be added to your iPod, iPhone, iEverything!

I hope this little quick guide helps, if anyone needs more help, feel free to give me a shout: Contact Me