Starting from the previous two decades, labels such as "Parental Discretion" and "PG Ratings" emerged. All of this is an effort to challenge the content that roams free in the media around us. Music is a universal "language" that has spread and mostly influences the lives of each and everyone at the same time. Artists create music for their listeners, but it goes through all the censorship rules intended to "protect our society". Does it really work? I do not believe. Today, people themselves choose to take offense as artists and performers have made their way into saying what cannot be said. Censorship has existed in one form or another in America. Some forms of music, poetry, and dance were banned by Spartan rulers during ancient Greece (Newman, 2000). These types of actions against material considered objectionable have been repeated throughout history. Since the 1950s, and still today, music listeners across the country have protested against certain content and/or lyrics in the music. The following are just a few of the incidents publicized during that period: 1954- Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass" is banned from radio as the lyrics are believed to condone excessive alcohol consumption. 1956 - ABC bans Billie Holiday's rendition of "Love for Sale" due to its prostitution theme. 1993 - Superstores Wal-Mart and K-Mart refuse to carry Nirvana's album, "In Utero," because they object to the cover art and song title. Shortly after it became the best-selling album in America, Wal-Mart and K-mart decide to release “In Utero”; revealing the album's back cover and changing the name of the questionable song from "Rape Me" to "Waif Me".1999- The National Football League (NFL) releases a series of... half of paper... ....censorship in America could become as extreme as in other countries In 2003, four of the songs from the Rolling Stones' album, "40 Licks", were removed entirely before it could be released in China. All four songs ("Brown Sugar", "Honky Tonk Woman", "Beast of Burden" and "Let's Spend the Night Together") contained sexual content that the Chinese government deemed unacceptable to the Chinese. its citizens listened (Cowell, 2003) . Censorship, in its current form, could become a topic of tomorrow thanks to the Internet and all the music accessibility sites on offer (Napster, i-Tunes, Win-MX, etc.). A recent report published by Forrester Research Inc. suggests that, by 2012, sales of digital music will surpass those of physical music (e.g. CDs, cassettes and vinyl records) (“Study: Music Downloads to Surpass CD Sales by 2012" , Nashville Business Newspaper.2008).