Facebook is 'planning its own music streaming service'

Sources tell a music and tech site that the social media giant is to follow its video programme with an expansion into streaming

Can't decide between Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal? Your choices are only going to get harder. Now Facebook is set to enter the music streaming race, with the social media giant reportedly planning to launch its own streaming service.

According to the music and tech news website Music Ally, which cites sources speaking off the record, Facebook is planning to follow its trial of native videos - videos that play only within Facebook, rather than on a parent site such as YouTube, and an experiment that is likely to include music videos - with an audio streaming service. Music Ally notes that "its plans to monetise music videos [are] an important stepping stone towards the on-demand audio service".