Gospel music, widely popular among Christians all over the world, is a genre in Christian music. Christian music lovers are always seeking for ways to get a huge collection of Gospel songs to listen from, when they feel the need to lighten their mood. To cut down on your expenses in buying good Gospel music, we give you a list of websites that offer free gospel music downloads.
I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
― Psalm 104:33 (ESV)
Gospel music, which brings you closer to God, in ways which are inexplicable, can make you cry with joy and bring within you a feeling of love, compassion, and contentment. It’s an amazing way to start your day, listening and singing praises to God, with a constant feeling inside your heart that someone is out there who loves you unconditionally, and will continue to do so, no matter what.
To have a collection of such music is not a very difficult task now, since there are many websites that offer you a great number of Gospel songs for free, to listen to and download as well. Apart from being traditional and spiritual, Gospel music includes an extensive variety of genres that can be related to secular music with Gospel lyrics. It encompasses Acapella, Urban contemporary gospel, Gospel blues, Southern gospel, Progressive Southern gospel, Christian country music, Bluegrass gospel, Celtic gospel, and British black gospel. Gospel music that first started in the 17th century was not as popular as it has become today. In those days, they would generally do acapellas while clapping and stomping their feet to create rhythms. Now it has evolved over the ages and is accompanied with all the instruments that you can think of.
Here is a list of free downloading official Gospel music websites.
ARTISTdirect
This website includes all genres of music, along with Gospel songs, some background information about its songs and artists, and allows you to download them for free.
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ShareSong.org
This website is an Internet library, which contains a lot of free sharing data. It also has a collection of good and trending gospel music, giving information on upcoming artists as well as established ones. The selection of songs keeps changing according the new Gospel songs uploaded and listened to.
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Godly Christian Music
Having over 2,300 free MP3 songs to download from, this website contains a huge collection and is solely dedicated to Gospel music. You can find a variety of genres including country and pop.
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The Secret Place
Dedicated to only Gospel music, this site is meant to take you into the secret place of God’s presence around you. It offers you five free praise and worship Gospel MP3 downloads along with their sheet music.
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Christian MP Free
This site contains songs of all popular Indie Christian artists and bands. ‘Indie’ meaning independent of anybody or any contracts, these artists have given legal permissions for free downloads of their songs.
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MadeLoud
This site contains music of all genres, including Gospel music and its sub-genres, and allows you to download them for free, once you sign up.
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New Release Tuesday
This website gives new music release dates to keep you updated and offers a free music download every Tuesday. You need to sign up to this website to access its files.
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CCM Magazine
CCM stands for ‘Christ Community Music’ magazine. It is a music magazine, as the name suggests, and contains all Gospel music genres. It offers a free download every week for their registered readers.
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