Background Info

This review covers three music sites; GoMusic, MP3Search & MP3.UA. Whilst at one time the three sites were identical, sorry, MP3.UA uses an orange colour scheme whilst the other two use red, a little graphic investment appears to have been made to the GoMusic site possibly with the objective of making it the ‘lead’ site. A quick point to note being that despite the similarity between the sites logons are site exclusive.

You might claim I’m being lazy in covering off three sites within one review. I prefer to think I’m killing three birds with a single stone and, in my kind, considerate, way saving you from having to read three individual reviews and becoming confused because, without being warned, they all seem kinda similar. OK that’s my case for the defence sorted.

Before I start, and many of you probably wish I would, the ground rules which you should consider before reading this review; GoMusic offers the most functionality and this review is essentially based on that site. The other two have almost exactly the same content, just less functionality.

Right let’s get going.

At the first encounter GoMusic (and its two relatives) strikes you as being a somewhat clunky, functional, site. It’s not the most graphically impressive and its own download software is claimed, only, to work with Internet Explorer. I suppose one would categorise the site as the ‘Plain Jane’ of the music sites however Jane does hold certain appeal which I will come to as the review unfolds.

GoMusic offers music for download under a licence issued by “FAIR” (Federation of Authors and Rights holders for Collective Management of Copyright in Interactive Regime). Under this licence they claim that 50% of their revenue, minus taxes, is paid to FAIR. With a fairly costly track price of about $0.26 it would appear that their claim may well stack up.

The top 3 user countries for GoMusic are:
Russia 13.5 %
United States 10.3 %
Ukraine 4.8 %

From personal experience, and it could be that GoMusic isn’t the most complex site; it seems to be one of the more robust sites. I can’t think of a time in almost a year when the site has had down time, although I’m sure someone will wish to disagree.