A new year brings new singers, musicians, composers and rappers that will change the music scene forever. These are the artists that deserve to be in your ears this year.

In May, Google launched YouTube Music in Australia to a few cheers, a few groans and a lot of, "Don't they already have a music service?" In fact, they have several: Google Play Music and YouTube Red, for starters. But don't be fooled -- they seem separate, but they actually compliment one another.

Mac only: Radiant Player (formerly known as Google Music for Mac) has gone through quite a few updates since we featured it two months ago. Now it has some handy swipe gestures, a mini player, extra themes and Last.fm integration.

Google's Music service, which enables you to upload and stream your own music collection, has ended its invite-only period and is now allowing anyone to sign up. Anyone, that is, who resides in the United States. There's no option for Australian users yet.

If you're using the Google Music Beta to stream music to your phone, you can now check out a leak of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of the app, which features a better-looking, easier to use interface.

Music technology writer and developer Paul Lamere sat down with the playlist generation tools of iTunes and Google Music to determine how Google's Instant Mix compares to iTunes' Genius.

Last week, we rounded up Google features we wanted to see rolled out in Australia. Today's announcements at Google I/O add a whole new set of options to that list.

Google just unveiled its new cloud music service to the world, and we've checked out the beta to see how it works. Here's a tour of some of our favourite features.

Google Music! It's pretty much the music service you would expect from Google: Streaming all your songs from the cloud, once you've told them what you have, and a bit of offline caching.