6 Best Places to Watch Music Videos Online

These are your best bets to stream the latest music videos

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Updated on October 19, 2022

The TV used to be where you'd go to watch free music videos, but the go-to place now is the internet, and with good reason.

There are lots of websites out there that show free music videos, but the sites below stand out from the rest of the crowd. Whether it's the large quantity of free music videos they have, the video playlists they allow you to create, or the recommendations they give, they should really make you take notice. 

If you like these sites, you'll also love to find out where the best places are to listen to music for free online and where you can download free music. There are also free music apps to take your songs on the road.

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YouTube Music

YouTube Music videos
What We Like

  • Tons of content.

  • Includes well-known and up-and-coming artists.

  • Lots of ways to find videos.

  • Updates often with new videos.

What We Don't Like

  • Ad-supported.

It probably won't surprise you that YouTube Music is a great place to watch the latest free music videos from all your favorite artists and discover up-and-coming musicians who have made their own music videos for you to enjoy.

You can find free music videos at YouTube via a keyword search, or you can browse videos by genre or mood. You can also view top artists and trending music videos, recommended music and artists, and more.

YouTube Music works from your phone, tablet, or TV.

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Vimeo

Vimeo music videos
What We Like

  • Lots of filters to help narrow down the results.

  • Lets you subscribe to updates.

  • The interface is clean and simple to navigate.

  • Has videos you might not find elsewhere.

What We Don't Like

  • Not nearly as much content as similar sites.

Vimeo has tens of thousands of music videos to look through. You can make an account and follow the channel for upload notifications.

Otherwise, you can watch music videos on Vimeo for free without a user account. The site is fairly easy to navigate and there are tons of music videos you've probably never seen anywhere else, which provides a fun way to find some new things to watch.

You can view these music videos by date uploaded, alphabetically, popularity, or duration. There are also filters for specific duration and upload date, resolution, HDR, license, and a mature content toggle.

Vimeo is available for computers, smart TVs, and mobile devices.

The link below takes you to the Music Videos channel, a subcategory of the Music channel. Some other subcategories here that you might be interested in include Live Music and Music Documentary.

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Reddit

Music videos on Reddit
What We Like

  • Unique videos from many sources.

  • Engage with other users.

  • See all the top-rated music videos.

  • An active community updates the page often.

What We Don't Like

  • The comment section isn't always kid-friendly.

The /r/MusicVideos subreddit is another great place to find music videos online. There are tens of thousands of members here, so you're bound to see some new videos posted often.

What makes Reddit unique for watching music videos is that you'll find submissions from a variety of websites, so even if you've already used the other music video streaming websites in this list, Reddit is the next best place to see videos from elsewhere.

You can sort submissions by what's hot right now, the newly added ones, and today's or this year's top-rated music videos. The extremely popular /r/Music is another subreddit you might like that sometimes includes videos.

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Internet Archive

Music Video Bin at Internet Archive
What We Like

  • Lots of older content you might not find elsewhere.

  • You can download the music videos.

What We Don't Like

  • Not the best place for anything modern.

  • Website is often slow.

  • Subject filtering is a mess.

Internet Archive is known for its archive of all sorts of internet content, and the Music Video Bin is one example of its music video collection.

Videos span from the mid-1900s to the present year. You can filter by year, but also creator, language (nearly all of it is in English), collection, and subject.

There are several thousand results through the link below, but Internet Archive also has the more general, and much larger (millions of items) Audio Archive that surely has other videos sprinkled within its subcategories for you to uncover.

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Billboard

Billboard the hot 100 songs
What We Like

  • Utilizes unique methods to show top music videos.

  • Videos play in an unobtrusive box.

  • Navigating the website is easy.

What We Don't Like

  • Sluggish website.

  • Lots of in-video ads.

Billboard has ranked music for decades, from every kind of genre, in addition to the overall top 100 and 200 songs. You can keep up on what is hot and trending. Many songs on each list have a link to the video so you can enjoy the music videos from the artists.

Then you can dig deeper into their Charts section to find even more music videos. They have charts for many music genres and themes, including emerging artists. Billboard also features music festivals, with videos covering them and the performances. They have music news videos as well.

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Yahoo Music

Yahoo Music videos
What We Like

  • Includes unique content.

  • No user account required.

What We Don't Like

  • Focuses mainly on music news.

  • Not as much content as similar sites.

  • Lots of clips and narrated videos.

Yahoo provides free music videos as they cover music news. They have videos of performances and live feeds from music festivals and events. They have video interviews with artists and cover reality music shows.

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