With the ever growing number of mobile users in Singapore, mobile phone companies globally are constantly devising new and unique features to attract more customers to their brand. One of the most sought after features among the customers today is mobile phone music downloads.

Owing to this fact, the market of mobile phone music downloads is growing enormously with its current market share being 13% of the world’s total music retail value. It has been estimated to grow up to 30% by the end of 2011. All this has become possible due to a number of exciting music download services available on mobile phones. For instance, there is one such service wherein the user is rewarded with free music downloads if he/she sends previews of his/her current music collections to his/her friends.

In the other prevalent way of downloading music to mobile phones, the users can instantly purchase and download tracks they hear through their mobile phone’s radio. The technology used in this feature is called Digital Music Downloading. This technology has made possible real time downloading of tracks from radio stations as the listener hears them over his mobile phone. The best thing about this technology is that the music files are delivered both to the digital receiver as well as the user’s home Internet account.

Apart from the mobile phone music download services that are being offered by the service provider, there are also other ways of doing it. For instance, you can use your music collection on CDs and download them on your mobile phone using free software available on Internet. The process is quite simple. First, rip the songs from your CDs to your computer hard drive; get them converted into MP3 format and finally transfer them to your mobile phone.

More and more users are also using websites for mobile phone music downloads. One of the ways of doing it that will not cost you even a single penny is using the free section of music downloads available on some large paid websites. But, you may not find many songs and music of your choice as such sections offer only a limited number of songs. So, if you are really looking for some great collections in your mobile phone, go for paid service available on some popular music websites. On registration itself, these websites may gift you a number of tracks. Besides, you also have the option of downloading some great songs during the free trial period. Till the trial period remains valid, you can play those downloaded music files. Some users also resort to lifetime membership with some websites which allow them to download unlimited number of songs. The best thing is that you can get all classic as well as recent hit songs and music on such sites.

By: Ted Brumby