Listening to music on your smartphone allows for setting the soundtrack to your life. When you are out and about exercising, you can play upbeat and fast music. If you feel a little stressed out, there are some cool, easy listening selections to pick.

What’s stopping you from listening to music anytime you want? All sorts of different music can be accessed through a number of apps. Adding more than one to your mobile device could be a good idea.

You’ll never be short on musical selections. Six awesome music apps, in particular, are perfect for both iOS and Android users.

1. Google Play Music

Google really does try its hand at everything. Google Play serves as the search engine giant’s library for apps, games, movies, and television shows. Of course, Google Play Music houses all sorts of different listening selections. Do you want to listen to the “latest albums & singles?” Google Play Music boasts about making a huge selection of the newest releases available.

2. Spotify

Based out of Sweden, Spotify gained a reputation for being a solid streaming service for podcasts, video, and, yes, music. Both a free and paid version of Spotify is available. So, you can try the free tunes and, if you enjoy the Spotify experience, you can upgrade to the paid version. With a paid subscription, downloading becomes an option. That’s a nice added feature.

3. SoundCloud

For a massive selection of awesome audio, SoundCloud becomes hard to top. Scores of podcasts found a home on the SoundCloud platform. Many independent musical artists present their songs on SoundCloud as well. This makes the app version perfect for locating rare and intriguing music. SoundCloud points out that the platform hosts “millions of songs from around the world.” That means a lot of awesome music for your listening pleasure.

4. Vevo

Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, cable TV was the place to go to check out the latest music videos. While cable television seems to be turning its back on music videos, the Vevo app brings videos a new home. That home is your mobile device. Vevo just might be the top app for streaming music videos. Watch and listen to awesome new songs no matter where you are.

5. Amazon Music App

Credits: PCMag.com

Amazon stands tall as one of the biggest names in the tech industry. Amazon branched out from online retail into streaming and media services not too long ago. Based on the huge increases in the company’s stock price, Amazon seems to be doing well.

Music fans certainly appreciate what Amazon makes available to them. Specifically, there are “tens of millions of songs” to choose from on Apple Music. The Amazon Music App makes accessing those songs simpler than simple.

6. Shazam

Don’t confuse this app with anything related to the DC Comics superhero. 100 million people won’t. That’s the number of users of Shazam, an app that allows users to discover and identify music.

The uniqueness of the app certainly fuels its popularity. Just play a bit of a song and Shazam can identify it. You won’t need to try and remember lyrics and type them into Google hoping to find the song and the singer.