The next game in Sony’s smash video game music series SingStar is released this week, and it will be free to download.

The PlayStation company is reducing barriers to entry for the game to encourage more customers to download it and then spend money on its licensed tracks - something it says provides “loads of opportunities for the music industry”.

There are currently over 3,000 songs on the firm’s SingStore. The new SingStar will come with short demo versions of ...