Lyrics Sites

Song lyrics is a very popular topic online, with countless thousands of searches made on the words to songs every day.  As a result, a large number of sites have evolved to provide lyrics online, each one with it's own approach to the subject. 

This choice review looks at the best performing lyrics sites, those who provide the best and easiest path to the words of a song. The top lyrics sites are summarized in a top 10 directory, and the top choices from this directory reviewed.

fast access to good lyrics results with relatively unobtrusive advertising...

Time was when we would look to the search engines and try a number of different combinations of song and artist to find lyrics online. Sometimes that would work and sometimes not. But the choice of dedicated lyrics sites we have now makes that process redundant, because there are much better options now available.

Specialist lyrics sites run their own databases or search the databases of other lyrics sites, giving us a quick way to locate the results we are looking for.

Some of these sites have very large databases and provide quick one-stop access to a wide variety of artist's lyrics.

Unfortunately this area is one where it can be hard to make websites profitable, so you can expect to come across a substantial amount of advertising along the way. In some cases it can be unobtrusive, but in others it can really slow down the whole process of getting to the songs you want.

Of course we should welcome a reasonable degree advertising, because that ensures the long term future and viability of the site, but excessive pop-ups and pop-up loops really just get in the way of where we are trying to go. So for that reason we have made unobtrusive advertising one of the criteria for our top sites.

In defining the criteria for our top lyrics sites we have kept this in mind and the sites singled out in this choice review are those who provide:

• Fast access to lyrics. Either as results of a search, or good browseability of a directory
  
• Relatively unobtrusive advertising - not enough to significantly slow the results
  
• Good depth of database and relevancy of results returned
  

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