The UK's streaming music arena could be set to welcome the arrival of a heavyweight contender by way of US giant Rhapsody.

Rhapsody has just announced its European expansion through the acquisition of Napster International, following its takeover...

Pure Music, the Spotify-rival from the digital and internet radio specialist, is now live in the UK, with a free month trial available for a limited period.

Building on the success of its FlowSongs platform, Pure Music has again teamed up with...

The digital music landscape is shifting with the increasing popularity of streaming services such as Spotify but digital download purchases continue to grow.

The digital music boom is highlighted by the 2011 figures which show that digital...

It's the end of the year, but before we get too excited about what's to come next, lets take a breather, let those mince pies break down and glance back at 2011.

In the big wide world at large, the US finally tracked down Osama Bin Laden, Manchester...

Having that slightly larger screen on the iPad grants a lot more space to play with the tablet's music making capabilities. There is room there for extra sliders, bigger buttons and larger instruments. The result is a selection of iPad music apps that...

A new music streaming service has hit the web aimed squarely at the mass market. Rara.com is a UK-based, all-devices, ad-free, paid-for experience that’s designed to capture the 80-odd per cent of the users out there who’ve never gone digital...

It's all systems go over at Spotify Towers. 2011 has seen the company get friendly with Facebook, the long awaited US launch and also the revelation of Spotify apps. But the music streaming platform isn't ready to stop with the roll-outs just yet it...

What's next for Spotify you ask (or rather it did)? Well, let us tell you - the music streaming company took to the stage in New York to announce that apps will now be part of the Spotify platform.

At an event that was simulcast via the wonders...

If you needed further proof that Spotify is fast becoming a mainstream brand, not just for tech fans in the know but rather a High Street name, then take note that the music streaming giant has just released its first gift cards into the shops in time...

Pure, the radio specialist, announced Pure Music on Tuesday; a streaming service that sees it going head-to-head with Spotify.

Building on the success of last year's FlowSongs platform, Pure Music again uses 7Digital's extensive catalogue but...

Remember all the criticism of Apple when iCloud was officially announced at WWDC back in June, about how the iTunes Match service could only download your tunes, rather than stream them?

Well, all that hot-air looks like being a big waste of...

Spotify has shed 1.6 million users in just three months, according to figures that Music Alley has got its hands on.

But the good news for the streaming service is that it has added over 500,000 premium subscribers to its books in the same...

Shazam has announced its first every corporate acquisition, snapping up Silicon-Valley start-up Tunezee - meaning a funky new feature for users of the popular music tagging service.

Shazam LyricPlay has hit the premium Encore version of Shazam,...

You'd have thought what with all the negative press Sony has been on the end of as of late, with regards to its online services, that it'd be making a song and dance about the launch of the Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity app into the Android Market.

But...

Got a load of poor quality MP3s that you acquired using, shall we say, unorthodox and slightly apocryphal methods?

Well, thanks to Apple's forthcoming iCloud service you could soon be streaming those tunes to your iPhone / iPod / iPad in a...