15 of the best music website designs

Creativity is an important element for not only music, but in website design as well. A website isn’t restricted to character limits or a news feed; you can organize it and include everything you need to promote your music and build your fanbase.

The best music website designs showcase how drawing upon music can transform a website’s design to suit the artist, offering looks from whimsical, to sleek and spacious. 

Here are 15 of the website designs that show how to make a music website that will impress your fans and the industry alike. To create your own design that’s both engaging and informative, here’s what a music website design could include:

1. A visually stunning main image

When someone visits your website you only have a few seconds to make a big impression. The quickest way to grab their attention is with a noteworthy header image. A header image is arguably just as important as your music - it will give your visitors a reason to click that play button.

An inspiring main image also sets the tone for your entire website. It should convey your brand, your vibe, and your sound all at once. If this seems like a tall order, choose an image with you in your element, be it performing or co-writing or just posing with your bandmates in a way that feels natural. 

You can use the colors from your main image to create the rest of your website’s design. Olivia K & The Parkers does just that with an image that conveys their fusion of soul, jazz, gospel, and art rock. They follow this up by drawing from the main image’s vibe and colors throughout the rest of their website design.

Artist: Olivia K and the Parkers

2. An engaging call-to-action

The purpose of a website is to attract visitors, giving them an inside look at your music and the ability to explore your content. To be sure you’re making the most of every visitor landing on your Homepage, add a call-to-action.

A call-to-action is the perfect way to add attention to an upcoming single release, an album pre-order, a new video, or to point out your fan subscriptions service. You can also use a call-to-action as a way to build your mailing list without being too obtrusive.

As a design element, the call-to-action adds some interest to the header image by tying together your artist name or logo, and menu. A nice example of a great website design that includes an effective call-to-action comes from R&B singer-songwriter Hatim. He changes up the text of his call-to-action regularly, and it stands out seamlessly with a burst of fresh color over his coordinated header image.

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Artist: Hatim

3.  Clear website menu

Your music website should be a core part of your music marketing strategy, drawing fans into the online space you’ve created. To be sure they’re able to navigate your content successfully, make a website menu that’s clear and easy to read.

Your website menu can be a nice addition to your website’s design, balancing out your social media icons, band name, and imagery right as the page loads. Use an animated loading effect on your menu to give your music website design a modern look.

With country singer Josh Addair’s artist website, the menu is an essential way to let fans know about all of the content they can access, from his EPK to his fan subscription service. The menu font mimics the typography used for his artist name, lending balance to create an aesthetically pleasing effect. 

Artist: Josh Addair

4. A sidebar menu

Want to get a different look for your website design that’s elegant, yet modern? Try a sidebar menu if you have 5-6 pages on your website. Depending on the music website template that you choose, there are different options for sidebar menus that cascade down the page, support an image behind the menu, or float above a full background image.

The structured nature of a sidebar menu makes it work well with a website design using sections. Divide up your content in blocks to draw attention to each element, and style each of these sections with its own background image or color, font, and button colors.

Soulful singer Lady J does an exemplary job with her music website’s design. She’s created a sidebar menu that floats effortlessly over her main image, staying in place as visitors scroll through her website’s content. She’s also created an EPK for her music, using background colors in sections to make the elements stand out in different blocks on the page. 

Artist: Lady J

5. Video header

Motion is an exciting part of any website. It can convey a feeling or spark imagination. Using a video header to lead off your design will set the tone for the rest of your music website. Make sure the video header isn’t too long, and set your title, social media icons, and menu over top of it. The combination of static text plus a moving video will make your website visitors stop and take notice.

Musician and vocalist Alianna is using a simple video that brings intrigue to her clean and professional website design. Using a white font for the items sitting over the video makes them easy to read. Her call-to-action and social media icons pick up on a bright blue hue from the video, making them stand out visually, but also tying things together nicely.

Artist: Alianna

6. Section backgrounds with imagery

With a cohesive color scheme and a handful of stellar images, you can create a music website design that keeps your visitors attention by using styled sections. A section is a horizontal block of content, within which your content can be structured and styled.

A website design featuring sections is a great way to generate visual interest - perfect for songwriters, high-energy bands, and DJs. To make your website design look even more modern, set the sections as ‘fixed,’ meaning the content will scroll but your imagery will remain in place. 

Making use of several similar images to evoke the sound of their music, folk duo Basset has added fixed sections plus blocks of color in their website design. This gives their site a modern, quirky effect that’s especially clever on their About page, and creates a warm, friendly vibe throughout their pages.

Artist: Basset 

7. Fixed background imagery

If you have a great promotional image, one that sums up your artistry at a glance and creates a full impression of your sound, use that as a centerpiece to create a modern website design for your music.

Using your image at full-width opens up many design possibilities, such as fixing it in place as the background. This means your content will scroll overtop, keeping your brand top of mind throughout your entire website.

It also works nicely for a one-page website, using sections to block off content above that main image. Sha'Lil does a great job with exactly that, drawing upon her fantastic imagery to build a music website that scrolls seamlessly.

Artist: Sha'Lil

8. One page design

The key to designing a one-page website is to make sure your menu is clear and organized. When someone clicks on a page name, they’ll jump down directly to that section of your page.

The linear structure of one-page websites makes it ideal to contain snippets of your music career. You can also focus a one-page website on a new release, adding album or single details, your artist bio, press, and a music player in your sections on the page.

To create a one-page website with a stunning design, choose one color as your focus. A second color can be used for your text, and then a third, accent color for your buttons and links. This will help keep things simple and make your content easy to navigate.

A great example of a one-page design comes from Attaboy, a vibrant band with a playful website. They’ve created a design that contains most content in blocks on their main page.  Then they’ve built out a separate, focused Store page to allow them to sell band merch online through their website.

Artist: Attaboy

9. A stylized logo

Nothing brings together music website branding like a logo. You can create a text logo easily by choosing a font that suits the rest of your content. But if you have a logo created for you, use it throughout your branding for a sense of consistency - with your own artist website being no exception.

A band logo will help you get started with your website design, especially if you don't have a full-width main image to use. Use your logo as inspiration to set the hues of your section titles, play button, and song names. 

Nola Cherri has a stylized logo that brings a unique vibe to her crisp, couture-like music website. She’s using the colors in her logo to define the text, menu, and buttons on her website. Since she is using a music website template with a fixed menu, her logo stays in place as her website scrolls, making it a key element of her design.

Artist: Nola Cherri

10. Whitespace for clear content

Minimalism is a current web design trend that isn’t going anywhere soon, and music websites are no exception. Creating a website from a template that consists mostly of whitespace allows for plenty of videos, photos, and media to bring your band’s sound to life across your pages. 

Using whitespace means that you allow padding, or space, around all of your sections and content to let it ‘breathe.’ It gives your website a professional look - even with plenty of content, the extra space makes pages appear uncluttered.

Using whitespace to create a minimal yet engaging website is shown by producer/artist White Noise Maker. They’ve taken advantage of a clean white slate with a sidebar to add music, their musician bio, and more. Yet the content area doesn’t seem busy - without other design distractions, it’s easy to explore their pages.

Artist: White Noise Maker

11. Album artwork

Designing an entire website around an upcoming album is a great way to infuse a sense of branding and familiarity across your online profiles and presence. Plus, the benefits to using your album artwork as the focus of your website are multifold. 

First, if you’re launching a new album, rebranding is a snap. Just change your website template to one that has a good space for your artwork. This could be a template with a square image set up, or one with a structured feel to enclose your imagery. 

Second, it’s the perfect promotional push for new music. If your website is based on that artwork, your album will remain top of mind as your visitors explore your content.

Indie band Car Park Social uses their album artwork as an anchor in the background of their website design. It’s also used front and center on their stylish band website Homepage, to draw attention to their new release, as well as in their Press Kit. As a result, they’re able to change up the look and feel of their website to match new album promotion regularly.

Artist: Car Park Social

12. A neutral color palette

Choosing the colors to use across your website’s design can be a challenging task. If you’re a folk musician, or building a singer-songwriter website, going with a neutral palette can be a great way to showcase your imagery in a way that also creates a mood to match your songs.

If you’re leaning on neutral colors to complement your band imagery, carefully consider your typography as well. It should pair well with the mood you’re creating, whether that’s stylized section header text, or more simplistic content fonts.

Indie singer-songwriter Jacob Rose has created a website design rooted in neutrals, matching his heartfelt music. Using sections in cream, black, and white with contrasting font colors to create a one-page site design really makes each area of his project pop off the page.

Artist: Jacob Rose

13. A classic black and white look

Black and white goes a long way in making a music website appear professional. You can add as much content as you’d like and it won’t appear messy. So if you play in multiple projects, have many musician bios, or plan to sell lots of music and merch on your website, try this classic combination as a base.

If you’re just unsure about the kind of look you’re after - perhaps you’ve only got some demo songs and videos so far - a black and white website is easy to create and then embellish with a few pops of color for a professional look.

A standout website with a black-and-white color scheme comes from Indigenous indie rock band Twin Flames. Their design includes a unique collage illustration video as their website loads. They’ve crafted a simple black and white website which houses a ton of information from new releases, to accolades and available workshops. Their EPK is also well done, organizing everything a band should include in a press kit, from press snippets to a variety of hi-resolution photos.

Artist: Twin Flames

14. A simple and structured feel

Using multiple images to tell a story comes naturally if you choose a website template with a sleek structure. Using boxes and columns doesn’t mark a website as dated any longer - rather it allows you to create a space that includes all of the options you need to build a fan community online.

From blogs to fans subscriptions, online stores with merch, perhaps a record label website: using structure to define your design can really make it easy to navigate, encouraging return visits to see what’s new. To add a little pizazz to a seemingly simple design, be sure to include some loading animation.

For a great website design example, check out contemporary classical music duo Dan Smith and Monika Suder. In addition to using a structured template that includes delineated sections, they’ve added imagery that evokes a serene feeling. They’re able to add lots of news, list past and present events, plus include 2 different EPKs to promote their new music, all in a streamlined way.

Artist: Dan and Monika

15. A retro look

One thing that you’ll want to be sure of when you design a music website is that it looks unique. Take a cue from your music to decide on the best way to achieve that. Once you’ve figured out a vibe for your site, use large images, text, a logo, or a specific color palette to get going. One way to determine your design is to choose a retro look, if it suits your music, and then figure out a color palette to match. You can also make use of image filters to add vintage graininess, or subdued color to give your images a throwback look.

If you have a little know-how with graphics programs, you can put together additional images to give your website an extra something special. Musician Z by Z has done that in a subtle way, using images with a command of color that sets a retro tone for all of his website pages.

Artist: Z by Z

All of these music website designs from Bandzoogle members were created from a template, and then customized in ways to not only mirror current trends, but also to showcase music in intriguing ways. If you’ve been feeling daunted trying to get that perfect, professional look, hopefully these designs will inspire you to do some customization - or start with a fresh design to match your sound.

If you change up your template, your content will stay intact. You can also create new pages, and move sections and features around to mix things up seamlessly within your design.

Giving your website a shiny new look and sharing that with your fans is a great way to revitalize your online presence, and to get more people listening to your music again.

Create a music website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to customize. Design a website for your music today!