There’s only one thing better than discovering your new favorite band: getting their music legally and for free, and then filling your iPhone and iTunes library with it. Getting free music on the Internet has been easy since Napster launched in 1999. Getting it in a way that doesn’t rob artists of payment for their work has been harder.

Over the years, countless authorized websites and apps have offered legitimate and free music, so you always have fresh songs available.

The music sites and apps listed below aren't the only places you can get free MP3s. However, these sites have so much free music that you'll never be able to listen to everything they have to offer.

Free music apps are the easiest way to get free music on your iPhone, because these apps include streaming. There are a lot of great apps that provide free music on your iPhone, some with huge libraries and others with a handful of curated choices each day.