PRS for Music has licensed cloud-based music service Google Play, which launches in Europe this week.

Google Play combines a digital music store with a free-to-user cloud based music management service for consumers’ new purchases as well as existing music libraries.

The new pan-European licence means consumers can now make purchases from the Google Play store on their Android devices and add up to 20,000 songs from an existing music collection using ‘scan and match’ technology to a cloud storage ...