In recent years, thanks to different streaming music services, piracy has been reduced considerably, although the royalties that record companies receive are not to their liking, but it will always be better than not receiving a single euro. Spotify was one of the first companies to bet on this service.
At present, the number of streaming music services is very varied and practically all the big ones, except Microsoft, have their own. However, the only free one, although with ads, is offered by Spotify. But according to various rumors, it could not be the only one, since Amazon could join the party next week.
According to different anonymous sources who have spoken with the publication Billboard, this new music service will be officially launched next week. Currently, Amazon offers us Amazon Music Unlimited, your music streaming service with the same price as Apple Music or Spotify and Prime Music, the free music service for Prime users who have 2 million songs available to them without any ads.
Amazon has never officially announced the number of subscribers to its streaming music service, but it is estimated that ended last year with about 20 million subscribers. Apple Music, for its part, currently has 28 million subscribers in the United States alone, and a total of 50 million subscribers throughout the world. The latest figures from Spotify show us how the company has 97 million paying subscribers and more than 100 million users of the service with ads.
Amazon wants to take advantage of this new service, which will be available on the Amazon Echo, so that users who still do not use it, Check out the advantages it offers and finally go to the paid service. For now, we will have to wait until next week to see if these rumors come true and we see a new competitor in the streaming music scene.
No. Prime Music is the service for Amazon Prime users. This service has 2 million songs but does not show us any type of advertisement.