Free Christmas Music Downloads & Web Radio Streams

If you're looking to hear some Christmas songs via the web, there are plenty of choices to find music for free. This article gives you some choices for downloading free music as well as choices for streaming live radio Christmas music to your computer.

Free Music Sources and Downloads

http://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html

This site offers free Christmas music to download in several formats including MP3 and Midi. The music choices are free because the website has obtained the artists' permission to enable you to download the songs for personal use only.

Choose from traditional songs, funny songs, elegant songs, as well as a song sheet with classic Christmas lyrics. The song sheet is in PDF format.

http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Xmas/tf/tf.htm

This comprehensive site contains almost every piece of Christmas music that you're looking for in .wav format (for your computer). There are 11 pages of songs on this site, arranged in alphabetical order by the song title. Since many songs are recorded by multiple artists, this clever site also includes the artist right next to the song.

Here's an example:

There are more than 25 versions of White Christmas on page 11 of the site. Let's say you want the version performed by Bing Crosby. Just scroll down until you see the entry "White Christmas - Bing Crosby.wav" and download it.

If you're using a dial-up connection, the songs may load slowly.

The site offers simple downloading instructions, if you don't know how to download to your computer.

Drawback: Navigation throughout the site is cumbersome. The main page has links to all 11 pages, but I did not find navigation buttons linking the pages. I either went back to the main page or just changed the digits in the web address to access the correct page. For example, to get from page 2, I edited the "ChristmasMusicPg2.htm" portion of the web address to ChristmasMusicPg3.htm to get to page 3.

http://www.ez-tracks.com/Christmas.html

This site has approximately 100 different Christmas songs to download, although you must register with the site first.

It also has songs in alphabetical order by song title using a barely noticeable clickable capital letters in about the middle of the screen.

You can get some free MP3 songs as well as ring tones.

This website also has a Christmas music message board that you might want to check out.

http://feelslikechristmas.com/

This is another great site that offers free downloads to store on your computer or load to your iPod. What makes this site free? All the MP3 files submitted to this site are from the artists' themselves so you can download them for your own personal enjoyment.

This site offers 4 categories: Traditional Vocal, Traditional Instrumental, Contemporary Vocal, and Contemporary Instrumental. Navigate to the Christmas Music page to see these sub-categories.

When you click on a sub-category, you're given a list of available songs in alphabetical order by song title. You can choose to listen to them or download them.

Web Radio Streams

There are many, many choices to listen to Christmas music via live radio web stream. Start by seeing if a local radio station in your area offers a live stream.

You will need a media player loaded on your computer to hear these streams.

http://www.k103.com/pages/listen/index.php

This site from Portland, Oregon begins streaming Christmas music before Thanksgiving right through Christmas.

Look for the link in the middle of the page to begin streaming Christmas music right to your computer!

http://www.mikesradioworld.com/xmas.html

This is probably the site to start looking for a local radio station that is streaming Christmas music.

Mike's Radio World is a comprehensive listing of worldwide radio stations now streaming live Christmas music.

The site indicates whether a particular station is available only in the United States or worldwide.

Check it out and you may just find a site near you!

http://www.accuradio.com/holidays/

This radio website streams different categories of holiday music including Holiday Classical, Old-Fashioned Christmas, R&B, Holiday Pop, Holiday Rock and more.

Click on the category that you want to listen to and another screen will pop-up on your display. From this window, you can customize your listening experience by blocking out certain artists that you do not want to hear - pretty cool feature!

The site is free but does accept Paypal donations.