Google is planning to release a music search and purchase for downloadable songs. The music search results will include buying functionality, images of singles, album artwork, news inks, video and lyrics, as well as song previews. This should be similar in its display to Google’s financial news section.

Song previews and purchasing will be offered through Lala and iLike. This is clearly an alternative to the popular Apple iTunes service. This idea was suggested to Google a year ago by companies such as: Sony, Universal, Warner, and EMI.

Lala and iLike will share revenues whereas Google will gain revenue from advertising within the search results pages. It is important to note here that music sales have decreased in the last 7 of eight years and music providers keep searching for ways to increase their revenues.