30 Beautiful Music Websites for Design Inspiration
Music lovers often are sensitive to design. This probably explains why so many music websites are so wonderfully designed and inspiring.
In this article, you’ll be able to discover 30 beautiful music websites that stand out from the crowd.
Mx3
midomi.com
Apple – iTunes
Last.fm
Deezer
evelMerch
Gigotron
Virb
Mugasha
just hear !t
Songbird
14 tracks
Bandize.com
Champion Sound
Lasttweet.com
Echodio
iLike
Dorble.com
LyricSift
Jamseed
Taste Kid
NYLVI
Pitchfork
Twisten.FM
Sellaband
Slicethepie
Tunerec
Songza
Better Than The Van
audiolife
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A u d e e
April 12th, 2009
This post is one of my favorite! Very inspiring as they are selected in a best way. Thank you for sharing these cool music websites.
To Mirko: It’s a great work! Keep it up ;)
Karitk
April 12th, 2009
You Missed one
http://music.syberplanet.net
Nice Post
Choobie
April 12th, 2009
Why does everyone always add Apple creations to their lest of “best looking” stuff? I have never found Apple’s website to be very attractive, nor the designs of any of their products like the Macbooks, iPods, and so forth. Everything designed by Apple is just too plain and bland. Spice things up, add some color and accents! Plain white with shades of gray is dull.
Jacob Gube
April 12th, 2009
@Choobie: To me, I like the simplicity of the design: it’s functional, not too ‘wild and crazy’, and truly reflects Apple’s design philosophies towards their products.
Jen
April 12th, 2009
http://musicisnotdead.com should be on this list
John
April 12th, 2009
how about this site:
http://drimr.com
i like their design,it’s clear
james mcdisi
April 12th, 2009
great list! although virb feels a little tired now.
Also, you should include Loudcrowd, it could be a little more unified but just look at the wallpaper it’s a cornucopia of awesome.
Vordreller
April 12th, 2009
http://www.trht.net
Also a very good site.
Consider
April 12th, 2009
Beatport.com
david hyman
April 12th, 2009
we have them all beat!! come to the relaunch of MOG on wednesday and if you do not agree our new design is NUMBER ONE, i WILL EAT MY SHORTS
Rick
April 12th, 2009
This really isn’t the best list of Music Websites for design inspiration in my opinion. Most of these sites don’t really have anything special about them. They are well organized and the colors are good, but they don’t show much innovation. For the most part anyways some of them are good.
Micheal
April 12th, 2009
How is UpVenue not in the list? Their blog pages look great.
Fred
April 12th, 2009
Mine is a smaller personal indie music website, not sure if it fits the scope here, but do check it out too :)
http://music.Fred-Lin.com
max
April 12th, 2009
really, nothing inspirational here. music sites have yet to pull their asses out of their hats and amaze me. When I think music, I think dynamic and religion changing. Pretty isn’t enough, I want it to make me want music.
Jacob Gube
April 12th, 2009
Thank you everyone for adding other beautiful music-related sites.
@Mirko Humbert: Well done on this post!
@John: It sort of has a similar look-and-feel to last.fm, I can see where they drew inspiration from.
@david hyman: Hey, don’t eat your shorts, I don’t want you to choke on them – I’ll take your word for it! :)
gorgonzatron
April 12th, 2009
YAWN. This article just tells me how many stupid domain names are out there and how saturated the web is with garbage.
raf
April 13th, 2009
what about http://www.7digital.com
Creamy CSS
April 13th, 2009
Great list of inspiration! Thanks a lot for that! ;)
Some of the works are amazing! :)
MorayWeb
April 13th, 2009
Nice list, great source of inspiration – thanks!
Harbinder Narula
April 13th, 2009
Hi Guys.
This is an impressive list. Some of the websites that look clean in their implementation are http://www.wonderdoctor.com and http://www.aryty.com . Do take a look, I am sure you would like their simple and clean implementation.
Andrew
April 13th, 2009
The design on wearehunted.com surely rates a mention too?
Jen
April 13th, 2009
Also check http://www.arcmusic.co.uk for World Music
Callum Chapman
April 13th, 2009
another great collection, love the mx3 website, and i’ve always been a fan of the apple site!
Conrad
April 13th, 2009
How about http://www.zune.net.
Just because its Microsoft it doesn’t get a mention? I dislike the zune player as much as the next guy but you have to admit it has a very well designed website and graphics.
taylan
April 13th, 2009
Great list. I think, jango.com should be on this list.
z.Yleo77
April 13th, 2009
how beatuiful… most of this sites.
Loris
April 13th, 2009
http://www.qobuz.com should be on the list too, very elegant design
James
April 13th, 2009
http://www.earfarm.com
Alias
April 13th, 2009
et ce site là : http://www.briterevolution.com/ j’espère que tu iras regarder avant de le balancer comme une merde à la poubelle, pov’ con !
Michelle
April 13th, 2009
http://www.supernova.com
marjan
April 13th, 2009
nice post!
definitely love the simplicity of audiolife’s site, as well as pitchfork’s new layout.
Chris
April 13th, 2009
http://www.indiepit.com
Really clean design, great LA artists.
Fred G
April 13th, 2009
An other French music website really beautiful : http://musikplease.com
Jacob Gube
April 13th, 2009
@Alias: Vous devriez détendre.
Eric
April 13th, 2009
Thanks for featuring Gigotron!
tonefreak
April 13th, 2009
http://alonetone.com/
Uncluttered, easy to navigate, no ads. Great site for hobby musicians and recordists.
Richard
April 14th, 2009
What about http://nonesuch.com . This website has a super clean grid design.
Daniel
April 14th, 2009
http://www.roccatune.com should be in here
Nik
April 14th, 2009
Hey everyone, we (Turn2Live.com) are actually in our alpha (open-alpha) and before we roll out to the nation with our beta, we’re curious if you all like our mood-wheel. The mood wheel allows you to search for live-music happening around you based on what mood you’re in.
Thoughts!?
phil
April 14th, 2009
title and score is as minimal as can be. i really enjoy it. http://www.titleandscore.com/
really
April 15th, 2009
This list cannot be taken seriously while not including http://www.purevolume.com
Jacob Gube
April 15th, 2009
@really: Y SO SRS? :D
Jason
April 16th, 2009
Some good examples here but also some that are, in my opinion, poor to average. MX3 is an especially bizarre looking site!
I was suprised to not see Pure Volume here too.
inoreloaded
April 25th, 2009
great inspiration here
Hank
May 16th, 2009
Great Website!!!
all politics aside
May 27th, 2009
Too bad beauty and intuitive site interaction is hard to combine.
nh design
May 28th, 2009
My preference is Just Hear It, though the group in total provides some great ideas.
baddjuju
July 10th, 2009
Nice designs! I think Audiolife should be moved up the list!
Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing
September 21st, 2009
Hey Mirko…….this article proves that simplicity of the design is the most essential factor. You really don’t have to use vibrant colors or fonts to make your site attractive. I think color and glossy fonts can easily make anything attractive. Keeping it simple yet beautiful is the challenge. Great job.
Max Miller
January 14th, 2010
One more that I think needs to be added to this list is PlayMe: http://www.playme.com/
krishna
March 8th, 2010
good collection. the sites listed truly inspires to develop websites which has music as its theme.
Kent
June 29th, 2010
Some fairly ok design work but haven’t seen anything to blow me out of the water
Sane
June 30th, 2010
Wish some of the web developers on these sites will give my website a hand. Great work
Steve Jackson
August 19th, 2010
My record label’s website is here: http://www.bombedout.com – it’s been through many iterations but I’m pretty happy with how it’s currently looking.
Danny
March 30th, 2011
I think this music website is visually good looking: http://www.nouvellemusique.co.uk
Saikrishna
November 18th, 2011
Cool.. :)
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