Mp3clan is one of the most popular mp3 search engines and audio file indexer in UK. All files are sorted according to artist and album and genres. The main page has a search box with list of categories and artists with top albums with a search box to search for songs and artists. You can even find playlists with the song in it. It allows you to create a ring tone and embed the files on you website along with usual feature of downloading and playing. User registration is not available so you cannot save / bookmark it on the site.  This site has been banned in UK owing to court orders.

Bursalagu, a strange name for music site which a www audio file indexer ad search engine. It provides file search for songs and lyrics. It has the most simplest UI which screams that it is a search engine. You can also find lists of tags categorized into songs, albums, artists and music charts. They also provide a firefox search bar to make search through their archives easy. They also provide a general search plugin for any browser that support opensearch standards. This site is immensely popular with 2million likes on facebook and 12k followers on twitter. Due to this it has been banned in UK on grounds of copyrights on march 2015 according to Torrentfreak. They only have links to files and do not host them.  Their download system is a little complicated though. You have to first click on red button to check whether the file is available or not then click on the download button that appears after that!!

Plixid is a music release site that post file locker links to major / popular albums or songs. The whole site looks like a blog and all songs are categorized into metal, jazz, pop, indie and relevant sub categories and tagged with artists and album names. Each post has list of songs present in the file and links to a filelocker like uploaded.net or nova.com. They provide basic search functionality to discover artist, albums and songs. Due to their immense popularity they are blocked in UK owing to court orders in March 2015 as reported by torrentfreak.com. The site started operating in 2009 and still open.

Stafa Band is a audio file indexer and link aggregator  where you can search for you favorite artist’s work / song. The audio files are categorized according to artists, billboards, uk / us topcharts, alphabetical listing and monthly singles. They even provide search by artist and song title and lyrics for each song. This site started in 2007 and still going strong. Contrary to the current design trends, the site looks to be old fashioned yet user friendly. But it a little confusing to the visitor, and the search bar is hard to locate. This site is very popular in UK and has  been recently banned by various ISPs owing to court orders. They also have a chatbox at the end to shout out your hearts content 😛

New album releases is a release log / blog style release indexer. They post links to download albums from various file hosts like uploaded.to and oron. Total they have around 70000 albums lists and all albums are categorized according to artist and type. They are blocked in UK owing to court order. The search box on the top right corner provides a way to sift through all albums on the website. Newalbumreleases makes available a substantial library of newly-released popular music content, as well as albums not yet commercially released.  The site features the most recently uploaded albums on the home page using album artwork.  In addition it organizes earlier posts by genre under menu tabs for Rock, Pop, Metal, etc.  The home page also offers a search capability for content by artist or title.  The site hosts its content on cyberlockers and provides users with links to services like Rapidgator.net and Hitfile.net from where the files are available for download.  All of the files appear to have been uploaded to the cyberlocker sites by Newalbumreleases as the download files usually include “newalbumreleases” in the file name.  As the uploaders they are direct infringers and takedown notices to the site are ineffective.

The site has a global Alexa ranking of 7,517.  SimilarWeb traffic data shows the site averages 5.6 million visits a month.

This site has been blocked in the U.K. by court order.1

Mp3skull is a simple mp3 search engine and file indexer that indexes audio files over the wild. It organizes files according to artist, size and duration and album. They have an ultra simple search bar and spartan layout which lists top downloads on the front page and search results just lists the audios an function to listen to them. This site has been blocked in UK by isps owing to court order.  They have a firefox toolbar from which you can search on their website without even going into the website 😀

Domain: mp3skull.ninja (formerly mp3skull.com, mp3skull.to, mp3skull.cr, mp3skull.is)
Registration:  Monica Vasilenko, MP3Skull, Inc., Petrozavodsk, Russia
Hosting Provider: M247 (Romania) – through Cloudflare (US)
Registrars:  EasyDNS Technologies, Inc.; Tucows Domains, Inc.
Revenue Sources:  Advertising, malware install programs, revenue sharing with redirects to third party sites.

Mp3skull is an unlicensed service that provides unlimited free downloads and on-demand streaming of the most popular copyrighted sound recordings in the world.  Its sole purpose is to generate profit from the theft of music, and it makes no pretence about what it does or why it does it.  Virtually any commercial recording is available for free download or streaming through the site and its most popular offerings (“Top Downloads”) virtually mirror the Billboard Top 100 list.

Mp3skull is the most highly trafficked mp3 site of its kind in the world and the huge user base allows its operators to profit from advertisements on the site and from the distribution of adware and malware to its users. The site purports to be simply an index site for mp3s found elsewhere on the internet, but the site operates within a close web of loosely affiliated sites that provide the content for mp3skull.

For years the site operated from the domain name mp3skull.com, but has since jumped to mp3skull.to, mp3skull.cr and mp3skull.is.  All of these domains now resolve to mp3kull.ninja.

Since 2011, various copyright owners have sent notices on more than 3.3 million mp3skull webpages offering access to infringing files.  RIAA alone has sent the site takedown notices on 1.7 million URLs to no avail.

We suspect the reason mp3skull has been repeatedly jumping to new top level domains is to work around search engine demotion signals.  Major search engines now demote sites from search results based on the volume of infringement notices they receive for the site. Changing the top level domain name allows the site to bypass the demotion signal and reappear in the top search results.  Mp3 sites like mp3skull have relied heavily on search to drive traffic to their site.  The rapid movement between domain names makes it difficult to get a fix on Alexa rankings and traffic measures, but the mp3skull.is just a month ago had a global Alexa ranking of 7392, and SimilarWeb traffic data has the site averaging over 40 million visits a month.
In April of this year, several US record labels sued mp3skull in U.S. District Court in Miami seeking monetary damages and other relief.  The operators of mp3skull failed to answer the complaint and the plaintiffs are seeking a default judgement against the site.

Mp3skull has been blocked in the U.K. by court order.