Amazon Is Rumored To Be Working On An Online Music Streaming Service To Rival Spotify

Amazon the due east-commerce giant has been offer a lot of dandy added services to its users and now rumors are up once more that Amazon is going to roll out a competitor to Spotify. The claim came from Reuters and according to the merits Amazon is working on a subscription based music streaming service much like Spotify. The service will cost effectually $9.99 per calendar month which is in line with what rivals are charging. The service is expected to launch in late summertime this year of early fall.

This new music streaming service will place Amazon squarely with other rivals like Apple and Google Play Music too. The service will besides be offering a wide range of vocal catalogs, something which its electric current Prime Music service does not provide. The rumors of Amazon launching such a service started back in January this year and at present it seems that the rumors are true.

The aforementioned Prime Music service is something which Amazon'southward annual membership holders become equally a part of the program, merely this new service will be a consummate standalone. Ane might wonder what Amazon plans to attain past this new service, since information technology is entering at such a late stage when most other music service providers are reaching their maturity stage. The answer is simple, Amazon wants to become a 1 stop shop for content and goods and thus the company believes that a music service such as this one is the right answer.

Other than that this new service will also increase the appeal of Amazon Repeat, which is Amazon'due south own home speaker- information technology searches the internet and orders products online using phonation activated search.

"A music service will further increase the daily interactions between Amazon and its customer base of operations," said old music executive Jay Samit when told nigh the company'south plan.

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If these rumors are in fact true, which they seem, then Amazon's online music streaming volition have two sides to it. The first will exist Prime number Music which it currently offers for causal listeners and the second new service which will be for music enthusiasts who want to listen to a wide range of songs and need a lot of diversity. Let's run across what happens in times to come up, nosotros will go on you updated on this.

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