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Abstract Music is a universal language that transcends linguistic as well as cultural boundaries. It is a fundamental constituent of every culture. As such, it is a universal characteristic of human experience. Music preferences differ from person to person. These individual preferences reveal a great deal about the personality of an individual. Personality refers to the unique set of traits or characteristics that constitute an individual�s distinctive character. It encompasses an individual�s attitudes, habits, traits and the like which distinguishes him or her in relation to others. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between the Big Five personality traits i.e., Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, Openness to experience and five dimensions of music namely Mellow, Unpretentious, Sophisticated, Intense and Contemporary put forward by Rentfrow, Goldberg & Levitin (2011). In order to achieve this objective a survey was carried out among 100 participants belonging to the age group of 18 to 28, of which 63 were female and 37 were male. Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and Short Test of Musical Preferences Revised (STOMP-R) were used to measure personality and music preference respectively. The sampling technique used was convenient sampling. In order to determine the association between the music and personality variables, Pearson �r� was calculated using SPSS. The findings revealed that Sophisticated dimension positively correlated to all five personality traits. The dimension called Mellow was found to be positively related to all the personality traits except emotional stability. The Unpretentious and Contemporary dimensions revealed positive correlations with extraversion, conscientiousness and openness but negative correlations with agreeableness and emotional stability. The last dimension, i.e., Intense was positively correlated to extraversion and openness but negatively correlated to agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability. The implications, limitations and future directions have also been discussed in the paper.