VentureBeat reports that Microsoft has leaked screenshots of an Xbox Music Windows 8 app update to be released, together with a few other Windows 8.1 apps such as Calculator, Scan, Reading List, Movie Moments, and Sound Recorder. The UI now features a two-column design similar to Google Music except for the fact Xbox Music is black. Read More

TuneCore founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells today unveiled a beta version of their new company, Audiam, an online service focused on getting money for artists when their music is used on YouTube. The beta version of Audiam was made available today for artists residing anywhere outside of the US. After further refinement, the service will launch globally, in full form, early this summer. Read More

Hypebot reports that Apple has announced iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service offering more than 200 stations and an impressive collection of music from the iTunes Store. The service is available from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, PC and Apple TV. One of the unique aspects of the service is the personalization feature which will evolve stations the more you listen; the more you use it, the more it will understand the kind of music you like and will personalize the music accordingly. . Read More

Hypebot reports that Massimo Ciociola, CEO and founder of the lyrics service MusiXmatch has said that the company intends to introduce a Google Glass app that will show song lyrics on Google’s heads-up display, which is just available to a few thousand people around the world. . Read More

Engadget reports that Pandora, the Internet radio service, has unveiled tv.pandora.com, the company's next-gen television experience to offer personalized radio to millions of listeners in their living rooms. The new offering provides simple navigation with controls and displays developed for the big screen and users can easily sign in to Pandora and access their customized radio stations, make new ones and look through more than 500 curated genre stations. . Read More

TechCrunch reports that Napster, the Rhapsody-owned streaming music service, is launching in 14 new European countries, considerably strengthening its presence in the region. The streaming service was already available in Germany and the U.K., and now will be live in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Read More

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple Inc. has signed a licensing deal with Warner Music Group for the rights to its recorded music and music publishing, consenting to terms on the publishing side that other big music publishers have been trying to get, according to people familiar with the matter. According to the deal, Apple will offer Warner Music Group's publishing group 10% of ad revenue, which is double what Pandora Media Inc. gives to major music publishers. . Read More