A method for selecting music based on face recognition, a music selecting system and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes the following steps: accessing a database to retrieve a plurality of song emotion coordinates corresponding to a plurality of songs mapping the song emotion coordinates to an emotion coordinate graph capturing a human face image identifying an emotion state corresponding to the human face image, and transforming the emotion state to a current emotion coordinate mapping the current emotion coordinate to the emotion coordinate graph updating a song playlist according to a relative position between the current emotion coordinate and a target emotion coordinate, wherein the song playlist includes a plurality of songs to be played that direct the current emotion coordinate to the target emotion coordinate.