Spotify

The guys behind this Sweden-based music-streaming service calls it an 'all-you-can-eat' music buffet: type a song title or the name of an artist into the search box and you get a list of tracks that you can listen to for free or as a paying subscriber (for $9.90 a month, you get an ad-free version on your desktop, mobile and tablet devices as well as listen to your songs offline). You can also follow artists and friends, view the tracks they are listening to on Spotify's 'news feed', and create your own playlist based on tracks in Spotify's database (there are currenlty over 20 million songs and 20,000 new ones are added daily). Users in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong can avail of a free 30-day Premium subscription before getting billed.