After being sold to Capital Radio Group in July 2000 it switched towards playing more dance music, later changing back to a more rock/dance format.

[citation needed] The rebranding of Beat 106 to XFM was one of a number of measures announced by GCap to improve their corporate performance following the merger.

XFM Scotland programmes were launched by breakfast presenter Dominik Diamond on 4 January 2006 with Loaded by Primal Scream as the first song played on the relaunched station.

On 28 August 2008, Jim Gellatly announced that his last show would be broadcast that day and he would be leaving the station together with a number of colleagues.

[3] By the time of XFM's rebrand as Galaxy, station audience shares had fallen further to 2.4% in the West and 2.6% in the East.

Galaxy programming started by 4pm the same afternoon, with Gary Spence as the first voice on the air, followed by a special evening show with networked presenter Dave Kelly.

[10] On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the station's local breakfast and weekend shows would be replaced with networked programming from April 2019.

[11] On 11 April 2023, it was announced that Capital Scotland would reintroduce local breakfast, daytime and weekend shows as part of an expansion of Global's Scottish radio operations.